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Example sentences for "dominance"

Lexicographically close words:
domiciliated; domicilio; domina; dominae; dominam; dominant; dominantly; dominants; dominate; dominated
  1. Government, he taught, is merely the dominance of one man over another, a form of intolerable oppression.

  2. A lecture on “Modern Feudalism” first delivered in 1870, in which he portrayed the growing dominance of corporations, gave proof of powers of insight and analysis above the ordinary.

  3. But Carthage still existed, and menaced the commercial, naval and military dominance of Rome.

  4. She was wholly under the dominance of her masterful husband, merely an accessory to his mode of existence.

  5. The strong man whose dominance over men and women alike had been his salient characteristic, had begun to feel an undefinable sense of some unrecognized quality in the woman he loved.

  6. The alert Ezekiel noticed it and observed that it was as totally unlike the irresistible dominance of the man of five years ago as it was different from the heavy abstraction of the man of five minutes before.

  7. The dominance of the spirit of independence among the English people he would explain also from the character of their political institutions during recent centuries.

  8. In panic, the dominance of the one emotion and its impulse is so complete as to allow no scope for any of the subtler modes of collective mental operation.

  9. It is not true, then, that we are logical individuals, while savages are wholly prelogical in virtue of the dominance among them of the collective mental life.

  10. The dominance of particular kinds will depend on the direction of winds and currents, bringing from some lands more than others, and upon the kinds of animals or seeds of plants most liable to be successfully carried across wide seas.

  11. This is an evidence of high grade, because it shows the dominance of head-functions.

  12. All evil consists in the dominance of the lower over the higher; all good in the rational use of the lower by the higher.

  13. As it was, he threw away the gift of fortune, and left to the Osmanli the practical dominance of the Mediterranean Sea until that great day in 1571 when Don John of Austria, the natural son of Charles V.

  14. Even momentary relaxation of attention means a loss of directive force in the guiding idea and the dominance of better known associations which may be suggested by the task, but are out of harmony with it.

  15. Besides acting to inhibit the irrelevant, it must create a sort of magnetic stress (to borrow a figure from physics) which will give dominance to those associative tendencies pointing in the right direction.

  16. There is something inherently masculine also in the universal dominance of the projectile in their games.

  17. In the ceaseless age-old struggle of sex combat he developed the desire to overcome, which is always stimulated by resistance; and in this later historic period of his supremacy, he further developed the habit of dominance and mastery.

  18. This may be broadly seen in the slow and painful development of industry and science as compared to the easy dominance of warfare throughout all history until our own times.

  19. In the change from the dominance of one sex to the equal power of two, to what may we look forward?

  20. But under the progressive effects of purely masculine dominance we find the broader human elements of dancing left out, and the sex-element more and more emphasized.

  21. In his dominance over servile women and helpless children, free rein was given to the growth of pride and the exercise of irresponsible tyranny.

  22. The Puritans of Boston were, in turn, not less convinced that theirs was the cause of God, and that Satan, enthroned in the French dominance at Quebec, must soon fall.

  23. Only in the campaign of 1758 did Pitt's dominance become effective.

  24. It was not, therefore, to be wondered at that his native dominance of character had full opportunity of asserting itself.

  25. Hence the dominance of formal development was due to a belief that form was of paramount importance in music, and to a determination to work according to that belief.

  26. The dominance of romanticism, or free emotional impulse, could only come when composers had arrived at the intellectual conviction that this impulse ought to be permitted to make its own forms according to its needs.

  27. In the absence of dominance the given character of the hybrid usually presents a "blend" or intermediate condition between the two parents.

  28. But now the question arises, what do such crosses as show dominance transmit to the next generation?

  29. Likewise, dominance and recessiveness are as much in evidence, for in tracing back pedigrees of various traits we find the same forms of tabulation that obtain for these conditions in plants and lower animals hold good.

  30. As a matter of fact close inspection shows that in numerous instances dominance is not absolute since traces of the recessive character may be detectable.

  31. Analysis by further breeding shows, however, that there are in reality three types, but since dominance is complete the pure extracted dominant and the mixed dominant-and-recessive type are indistinguishable to our eye.

  32. A heterozygote in which dominance prevails can be identified with certainty by breeding to a known recessive and noting the kind of offspring produced.

  33. Likewise conditions of delayed dominance are known in man in eye-color and notably in color of hair.

  34. This dominance of numbers through the fact that others, though only equal in right, have another opinion, is by no means the matter of course which it seems to us today in our time of determinations by masses.

  35. The dominance of any one of the four types of wishes is the basis of our ordinary judgment of his character.

  36. A few seasons' advantage to one assures its dominance over the others.

  37. There did not appear much doubt of his driving his way rough-shod to the dominance of affairs there in Pine.

  38. With equal strength and probably already greater cunning than any actual animal of to-day, he had perhaps acquired dominance over most of the other beasts of the field.

  39. But at such a stage in social evolution, it is impossible to accept the dominance of the unsupported female or 'feme sole.

  40. Neale saw and felt his dominance over her.

  41. Shudderingly, mournfully, she resigned herself to the feeling that she must stay under Durade's control until a dominance stronger than his should release her.

  42. With frantic and terrible earnestness--the old dominance Neale had acquired over her--she clung to the one truth that mattered.

  43. Rapid Dominance would therefore provide the ability to control, on an immediate basis, the entire region of operational interest and the environment, broadly defined, in and around that area of interest.

  44. Fourth, Rapid Dominance aims to achieve new levels of operational competence that can virtually institutionalize */"brilliance.

  45. The top priority of Rapid Dominance should be to deter, alter, or affect those actions that are either unacceptable to U.

  46. The first test of this Rapid Dominance force will be against the MRC.

  47. To affect the will of the adversary, Rapid Dominance will apply a variety of approaches and techniques to achieve the necessary level of Shock and Awe at the appropriate strategic and military leverage points.

  48. Achieving Rapid Dominance by virtue of applying Shock and Awe at the appropriate level or levels is the next step in the evolution of a doctrine for replacing or complementing overwhelming force.

  49. The requirement for Rapid Dominance to develop sophisticated capabilities to penetrate the Information Highway and create road blocks as well as control inputs/outputs to the highway both overtly and covertly is fundamental to the concept.

  50. Can we separate Rapid Dominance into categories with and without Shock and Awe?

  51. Do we know the funding tail to such a policy and are we as a nation ready to accept this cost when/if Rapid Dominance is applied in situations that are less than of vital interest?

  52. Rapid Dominance Infrastructure The current direction and speed of downsizing and acquisition reform is adequate for the type of forces and capabilities necessary to implement a Rapid Dominance strategy.

  53. More surgical and carefully crafted applications of force, however, will only partially reduce the restraints and limits on utilizing Rapid Dominance in MRCs and OOTW.

  54. We achieved dominance of Earth by our moral responsibility to family, tribe, and nation--and we nearly exterminated ourselves when we forgot that this responsibility went beyond nations and embraced all mankind.

  55. Why was humanity so jealous of its dominance that no other species could exist except by sufferance?

  56. Mankind's early selflessness had long ago been discarded for frank expansionism and dominance over the lesser races that stood in their way.


  57. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dominance" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.