Neither France in Algeria and Tunis nor Britain in India and Egypt is an assimilating and unifying power.
The invaders were, in fact, too disparate in their stage of evolution from that of the southern civilisation to be capable of assimilating it and carrying it on.
The mythical ideas of the conquered people remain, and are even diffused through the lower classes of the conquering race; or they are ingrafted by a synthetic and assimilating process, so as to modify other mythical and religious beliefs.
The work of assimilating what had been received into the law from without during the period of equity and natural law has been done.
For a time the law was assimilating what had been taken up during the period of growth and the task of the jurist was one of ordering, harmonizing and systematizing rather than of creating.
Capacity forassimilating the public taste and reproducing it, is the commonest.
I soon missed my brother, for I was now alone, with no being at all assimilating in age, with whom I could exchange a word.
But Cyon and Aladoff remind us that it is not mere dilatation of the hepatic vessels, but increased velocity in the movement of the blood, which deranges the sugar-assimilating function and causes glucose to appear in the urine.
In fact, however, the people were interested and absorbed in stamping out the feeble hold of Christian influence, in assimilating the teachings of Wang Yang Ming, and in recasting the doctrines of Confucius and Buddha.
Between these two extremes stand the majority of sane intellectuals, who clearly perceive both the limitations and the strength of Japan, and endeavor to benefit through learning and assimilating the valuable experience of advanced nations.
Such a policy of nationalism inevitably incites the suspicion of countries to which Japanese immigrants go, and discourages the people from making an attempt atassimilating the Japanese.
Such a man feels, even though unconsciously, that the abdominal organs are incapable of assimilating sufficient nutriment, and that his lungs, unable to take in the needed quantity of oxygen, render his breathing labourious.
Living organisms take nutriment from their environment, to the end of assimilating it, that is, transforming it from an inert, indifferent substance into a substance that is a living part of themselves.
Another reason, however, must be sought for the habit of assimilating internal feelings to external sensations.
France might no longer choose to interfere in the affairs of England, and consequently that his support could not be relied on for the grand object of assimilating this government to his own.
We all look upon this world as suits our moods, assimilating only such food as suits our dispositions--and no doubt there is sufficient variety to suit all.
By fully assimilating this doctrine one comes to aim steadily at securing a more and more direct communion with God.
The healthy adult is not 'growing' in this sense; when of constant weight he is adding neither to his stature nor his girth, and yet he is assimilating as truly as ever he did.
Gazette de France an account of a reform in the procedure of the Roman Inquisition in 1816, assimilating it to that of the secular courts, a reform which was to be extended to the Inquisition everywhere.
Nature gives by answering our interrogations; these must depend on our powers of assimilating knowledge.
Our inquiries must be subject, for utility's sake, to our power of assimilating knowledge.
We think that we are assimilating knowledge, when we are actually engaged in manufacturing aliments to suit our own intellectual digestions.
This increase takes place by their power of reorganising, or of assimilating to the nature of their own organisms, certain of the substances elaborated by plants, and destined to become food for animals.
Passion has the keenest sight, and wonderful skill in discovering the thoughts of the object of its devotion, in assimilating them and extracting nutriment from this exciting but ethereal food.
The Greece of antiquity is here reproduced with great vividness, indicating on the part of the author thoughtful research and a rare faculty for assimilating the materials he has gathered in the course of his studious reading.
The assimilating force is, if you will, in the germ, but the matter assimilated comes and must come from abroad.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "assimilating" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: counting; covering; embracing; encircling; enclosing; including; inclusive; numbering
