How To Use Subjection In A Sentence
-
No policy which attempts to keep the majority of the population of South Africa under permanent subjection or "baaskap" can ever succeed.
PAPER ON THE GROUP AREAS ACT AND ITS EFFECTS ON THE INDIAN PEOPLE OF NATAL
-
Peter, for his part, outlines the shape of Christian duty in just these terms of mutual subjection in his First Epistle, but now stated explicitly as offering the means of our conformance to Christ.
-
The best way to keep inferiors in subjection, is to be grave with them.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
-
'The _method and nature_ of this yielding' [of _this yielding_ -- SUBJECTION is the question] 'must also be diligently examined; as, _for instance_, whether the motions' [ 'of liberty'] 'completely cease, or exert themselves, but are constrained; for in all bodies with which we are acquainted, _there is no real, but an apparent rest, either in the whole, or in the parts_.
The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded
-
Education meant the inculcation of truths as dogmas, the institutionalization of habits of obedience, the subjection of the individual to the community.
-
But truly, the rebellion and insubjection against the truth of God is more generally practised, even by the multitude of men though in an unfree, hidden way, how few do believe their own desperate wickedness, though God hath testified it of man?
The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
-
This tale of ‘falling from grace,’ from divinity to abjection, of the subjection of feminine powers to the reprobation and constraints of the patriarchy society seems to be a universal trope.
-
Among which he ordained that none of this land should receive the order of knighthood, but only at Rome by the hands of the emperor, lest peradventure the rude people and unworthy would take upon them that order unworthily, which is of great dignity, and also they should make an oath never to rebel ne bear arms against the emperor, which statutes were used in all places obedient to Rome and under their subjection.
The Golden Legend, vol. 3
-
For although we attribute to the Father something of originality aliquid auctoritatis through the notion of principle, nonetheless we do not attribute to the Son or the Holy Spirit any subjection or inferiority of any kind, so as to avoid all occasion for error.
Archive 2005-05-01
-
The aims of this new movement were in the first instance a restoration of the old discipline, of true renunciation and piety in the monasteries themselves; but later, first, a subjection of the secular clergy to the regulars, and, secondly, the dominion of the whole spiritualty, as regulated by the monks, over the laity — princes and nations alike.
Monasticism: Its Ideals and History and The Confessions of St. Augustine
-
Gabii under a close subjection, the king, mistrusting the messenger, made him no answer, and only took him into his privy garden, and in his presence with his sword lopped off the heads of the tall poppies that were there.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4
-
Then shalt thou judge the departed monarch, and the writer who lived in subjection to his power.
Selection from _Memoirs of the Year Two Thousand Five Hundred_
-
Technically Roman slaves were the property, the chattels, of their owners, held in a state of total subjection.
-
But let us now subjoin -- A man who is attacked by the flesh, yet who conquers it in the conflict, is not called fleshly or carnal; but this appellation is bestowed on the man who, by yielding his consent, is brought into subjection to the flesh.
The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 2
-
But the Qing were also Manchu invaders, who forced every Chinese man to wear his hair in a long plait as a sign of subjection and instigated a literary inquisition that codified what could and could not be read in China.
-
They diverge in their justifications for the subjection of individuals to the exercise of state power during the enforcement of contractual obligations.
-
The sensual appetites have their own proper sensible objects to which they naturally incline, and since original sin has broken the bond which held them in complete subjection to the will, they may antecede the will in their actions and tend to their own proper objects inordinately.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
-
'In the nineteenth century the Turks were hopelessly beaten, and the Porte was falling to pieces under the world's eye, yet the Austrians were flogging their peoples to keep them in subjection exactly as if there were a terrifying enemy at their gates.'
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: Part IV
-
Not that fasting is a thing of itself to be discommended, for it is an excellent means to keep the body in subjection, a preparative to devotion, the physic of the soul, by which chaste thoughts are engendered, true zeal, a divine spirit, whence wholesome counsels do proceed, concupiscence is restrained, vicious and predominant lusts and humours are expelled.
Anatomy of Melancholy
-
Servants immediate to the supreme master, are discharged of their servitude or subjection in the same manner that subjects are released of their allegiance in a commonwealth institutive.
The Elements of Law Natural and Politic
-
The constant and interesting movement of others is the best of incitements to the abulic; motion directed into the channel of orderly exercise develops the inhibitory powers of the too impulsive child, and the child who is too much in subjection to his inhibitory powers, when liberated from the bondage of surveillance, and free to act privately on his own initiative -- in other words, when he is removed from all external inducements to exercise inhibition, is able to find an equilibrium between the two opposite volitional forces.
Spontaneous Activity in Education
-
But to go on from this, as Dr Guest and some of his followers have done, to the subjection of the whole invaluable vocabulary of classical prosody to a sort of _præmunire_, to hold up the hands in horror at the very name of a tribrach, and exhibit symptoms of catalepsy at the word catalectic -- to ransack the dictionary for unnatural words or uses of words like "catch," and "stop," and
The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II)
-
Rather, they propose to cross the frontier for no better reason than to aggrandize themselves and to prolong the subjection of their own population.
-
All the world over before Christ's time, he freely domineered, and held the souls of men in most slavish subjection (saith [6371] Eusebius) in diverse forms, ceremonies, and sacrifices, till Christ's coming, as if those devils of the air had shared the earth amongst them, which the
Anatomy of Melancholy
-
He holds that women must be kept in subjection, writing: "Woe unto the Race if ever these loveable creatures should break loose from mastership, and become the rulers or equals of Man.
Essays
-
If you say; “- Yes I do – I can help people” – then you will notice that the language will be in subjection to what you can offer!
If English is your second language – Is it possible to be successful in Article writing? « Esl Articles « Articles « Literacy News
-
From this day forward, he is exempt from all subjection of servitude, of all duty of a freed-man, all bond of clientship.
A Book of Golden Deeds
-
Although Thurman's character ultimately triumphs, the most memorable sequences by far involve her humiliation, subjection and abuse at the hands of three tormentors.
-
Consider how long you have been in subjection under the predominance of parents, of your husbands; now you be free in liberty, and free ... at your own law '(qtd. in King 50).
My Name Was Martha: A Renaissance Woman's Autobiographical Poem
-
The faded, wildered, washed-out look, the uncertain, purposeless bearing which had come from her secluded life and subjection to her sister had vanished from her.
He Knew He Was Right
-
They are told by them that the highest right is might, and in this way the young fall into impieties, under the idea that the Gods are not such as the law bids them imagine; and hence arise factions, these philosophers inviting them to lead a true life according to nature, that is, to live in real dominion over others, and not in legal subjection to them.
Laws
-
The government used brute force to keep people in subjection.
-
Leroy-Beaulieu placed an emphasis on informal means of colonization, defining the latter concept as 'the subjection of the universe or a vast part of it to [a nation's] language, moeurs, ideas, and laws'.
-
He holds that women must be kept in subjection, writing: "Woe unto the Race if ever these loveable creatures should break loose from mastership, and become the rulers or equals of Man.
Essays
-
And this inwraps the third general rule of our communion with the Holy Ghost: — in the dispensation of the word of the gospel, the authority, wisdom, and goodness of the Holy Ghost, in furnishing men with gifts for that end and purpose, and his presence with them, as to the virtue thereof, is to be eyed, and subjection given unto it on that account.
Of Communion with God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost
-
In the Indian-occupied sector of this unhappy state, with a handful of local stooges backed by Hindu and Sikh troops keeping in subjection 3 million resentful Muslims, conditions remind one of life in one of the Soviet satellites.
Muslim and Hindu
-
Augustus, notwithstanding his vapoury insubjection, visited his father and the partners in the bank, leaving his bride in snug lodgings at a respectable distance from all.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843
-
No critique of dominance or subjection, certainly not of objectification, can be grounded in a vision of reality in which all sense perceptions are just sense perceptions.
-
But Marianne abhorred all concealment where no real disgrace could attend unreserve; and to aim at the restraint of sentiments which were not in themselves illaudable, appeared to her not merely an unnecessary effort, but a disgraceful subjection of reason to common – place and mistaken notions.
Sense and Sensibility
-
Henry VI, Antoine de Vergy, Governor of Champagne, received a commission to furnish forth a thousand men-at-arms for the purpose of bringing the castellany of Vaucouleurs into subjection to the English.
The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2
-
She may be given the name afresh, but now to be worn as a slave name chosen by her master, or, sometimes, presumably that she may better understand her dependence on men's will, and her subjection to male domination, she may be given another Earth-girl name.
Mercenaries Of Gor
-
Yet, while on a level with males as to the offer of, and standing in grace (Ga 3: 28), their subjection in point of order, modesty, and seemliness, is to be maintained.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
-
Their turn was an exciting and even terrifying one, when viewed from the audience; for, jumping about and roaring, they were made to appear as if about to destroy the slender little lady who performed with them and seemed to hold them in subjection only by her indomitable courage and a small riding-switch in her hand.
CHAPTER XXVIII
-
The reason for this is that women are forced to carry on the main productive activity by themselves because of their subjection.
-
Insufficiency here (the recycling of the sequence, the absence of sound, and the use of slow motion) discloses the subjection inherent to super-nature and, in so doing, interpellates the spectator in a grieving of the spectacle.
-
The man told us that in that valley there had been a particularly malignant devil, and that this extraordinarily big chorten had been built in order to keep him in subjection.
The Mount Everest Expedition
-
When such subjection is withheld, Christ's servants, if they would be faithful to the exalted Saviour, cannot do otherwise than refuse to incorporate with the national society, and to homologate the acts of its rulers; and from Churches that do not testify against national defection, they are constrained to maintain distinct separation.
The Life of James Renwick A Historical Sketch Of His Life, Labours And Martyrdom And A Vindication Of His Character And Testimony
-
Nero's boyish pride by taunting him with what she called his degrading and unmanly subjection to his mother.
Nero Makers of History Series
-
He went down with them to Nazareth, and lived in subjection to them"; the moral is not, after all, to be in favour of truancy.
She Doesn't Pay Her Musicians!
-
Either the valorization of accumulation, profit, and the subjection of human beings to mechanistic systems will wind down into the sort of dystopia so widely and lavishly depicted to scare us witless; or we will awaken from our trance, take a deep breath to dispel the catecholamines, use our big neocortices to recognize that we still possess the resources, intelligence and skill to enact a redemptive vision—and then do it.
Annals of The Culture of Politics: Tea and Empathy
-
His feeble attempts to rid himself of his passion for her had been more to humour his scourged pride than to release him from subjection.
DANSVILLE
-
Three Stages and the idea of a hierarchy of the sci - ences; the worship of natural science and of technol - ogy; the commitment to a physiological view of the mind; the subjection of the historical process to laws of human nature; the interweaving and interdepend - ence of scientific and historical method; the increas - ingly emphatic view of themselves in messianic terms, and the development of a full-blown religion to replace orthodox Christianity, complete with disciples — all these and other teachings were common to the two men.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas
-
God's kingdom is one of fatherly and motherly compassion, not dominating majesty or slavish subjection.
-
But because conscience is a relative term, and so must refer to something which it is to be conversant about, I shall shew, that men are commanded a subjection to, and dehorted from a resistance of the civil magistrate, by two things.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. III.
-
Ge 3: 16, woman's "subjection" is represented as the consequence of her being deceived. being deceived -- The oldest manuscripts read the compound Greek verb for the simple, "Having been seduced by deceit": implying how completely
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
-
The son having sent his father a messenger to know how he might bring the Gabii under a close subjection, the king, mistrusting the messenger, made him no answer, and only took him into his privy garden, and in his presence with his sword lopped off the heads of the tall poppies that were there.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
-
All are put under him; we hold of him, as in capite, and owe subjection and obedience to him, who is also Jesus and Christ, the anointed Saviour, and especially our
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
-
Harlech, standing proudly upon the cliff edge that used to form the coastline, seems to best represent the symbolism of subjection that Edward I intended.
-
Education meant the inculcation of truths as dogmas, the institutionalization of habits of obedience, the subjection of the individual to the community.
-
It was difficult to believe that his subjection to opium could much longer resist the stings of his own conscience, and the solicitations of his friends, as well as the pecuniary destitution to which his _opium habits_ had reduced him.
Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey
-
And therefore wee are to understande that Phillippe rather governeth in the West Indies by opinion, then by mighte; ffor the small manred of Spaine, of itself being alwayes at the best slenderly peopled, was never able to rule so many regions, or to kepe in subjection such worldes of people as be there, were it not for the error of the Indian people, that thincke he is that he is not, and that doe ymagine that Phillippe hath a thousande Spaniardes for every single naturall subjecte that he hath there.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II.
-
We shall see that this is not so; rather, ethnic identity is the product of racialized subjection.
-
But Marianne abhorred all concealment where no real disgrace could attend unreserve; and to aim at the restraint of sentiments which were not in themselves illaudable, appeared to her not merely an unnecessary effort, but a disgraceful subjection of reason to common-place and mistaken notions.
Sense and Sensibility
-
Even then she was aware that implicit in the business was the subjection of the female and the triumph of the male.
DANSVILLE
-
For where alert and conscious criticism of existing folkways is habitual among all the members of a society, that society is saved from subjection through inertia to disserviceable habits.
Human Traits and their Social Significance
-
The Latins obtained the name of Roman citizens; the title disguised a real subjection, since the men who bore it had the obligation of citizens without the rights.
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01
-
Subjection is unconditional and must not be re-evaluated in the light of experience.
-
Hence if a man preach or do something similar by the authority of his superiors, he does not rise above the degree of "discipleship" or "subjection," which is competent to religious.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
-
This species of servitude may be termed serfdom, as it has to be rendered in consequence of subjection by force of arms, but it is necessarily very mild.
Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa
-
By discipline, I do not merely mean smartness, which is involved in quick and correct response to the word of command; that, of course, is part of it; but I refer more particularly to that grip of self which enables a man to force himself into subjection to authority, which may be entirely inimical to his own will.
With The Immortal Seventh Division
-
Equality is the soul of friendship: marriage, to give delight, must join two minds, not devote a slave to the will of an imperious lord; whatever conveys the idea of subjection necessarily destroys that of love, of which I am so convinced, that I have always wished the word obey expunged from the marriage ceremony.
The History of Emily Montague
-
Mrs. Cole, a paragon of maternal wisdom, is credited with the theory of pleasure that informs Volume II: she considered pleasure of one sort or other as the universal port of destination, and every wind that blew thither a good one, provided it blew nobody any harm: that she rather compassionated than blamed those unhappy persons who are under a subjection they cannot shake off ....
How to Do the History of Pornography: Romantic Sexuality and its Field of Vision
-
But to go on from this, as Dr Guest and some of his followers have done, to the subjection of the whole invaluable vocabulary of classical prosody to a sort of _præmunire_, to hold up the hands in horror at the very name of a tribrach, and exhibit symptoms of catalepsy at the word catalectic -- to ransack the dictionary for unnatural words or uses of words like "catch," and "stop," and
The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II)
-
Peter shows, that when, on a previous occasion, she called Abraham lord, she did not do so feignedly; since he proposes her, as an example of voluntary subjection, to pious and chaste matrons.
Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1
-
God's kingdom is one of fatherly and motherly compassion, not dominating majesty or slavish subjection.