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Example sentences for "emancipation"

Lexicographically close words:
emanations; emancipate; emancipated; emancipates; emancipating; emancipationists; emancipations; emancipator; emancipators; emancipatory
  1. The fourth claim is the emancipation of the voters from the tyranny of the "boss.

  2. The emancipation of the voters from the tyranny of the political "boss" or caucus.

  3. The growing custom of emancipation worked in the same direction.

  4. THE "BLACK DEATH" The emancipation of the peasantry was hastened, strangely enough, as the result of perhaps the most terrible calamity that has ever afflicted mankind.

  5. He declared that the emancipation of Moslem slaves was an act of special merit, and ordered that in a war between Moslems the prisoners were not to be enslaved.

  6. What is meant by the "emancipation of the peasantry"?

  7. These are the forces against which every teacher, every manager, every inspector, who strives for emancipation and enlightenment, has to fight unceasingly.

  8. With the emancipation of Man's higher activities from ecclesiastical control, the distinction between the religious and the secular life has gradually established itself.

  9. The history of Christendom is the history of the gradual emancipation of the Western world from the despotism of the Church.

  10. Emancipation from egoism and sensuality is effected by the outgrowth of a larger and truer self.

  11. With regard to cannibalism, I demand that the advocates of emancipation either adopt it as right and proper, or denounce it, as I do, as beneath the dignity of ordinary animal existence, and as the most disgusting prerogative of barbarism.

  12. If emancipation is to be thought of, would it not be well to emancipate the white races first?

  13. Emancipation contemplates the social and political equality of the races.

  14. Emancipation is all a delusion, a foible, a fantasy, an idle dream!

  15. Or, if it be admitted that he has such right, let any possible process of emancipation be pointed out.

  16. This is the fate to which emancipation would consign the Negro.

  17. But the question of emancipation is started and agitated on the ground of human equality.

  18. But in what characteristic terms of manly reproach did he address the Emancipation Society on the subject when he found their principles and practices to be that "the end justifies the means.

  19. In this view emancipation is no less unjust to the African than opposed to the law of right.

  20. The wisdom of these prohibitory laws will be seen in the future time; when the idea of Negro equality has become exploded and obsolete; after the question of emancipation has served its purpose in political combination; but alas!

  21. I listen to the same arguments against the emancipation of Italy, that are used against the emancipation of our blacks; the same arguments in favor of the spoliation of Poland, as for the conquest of Mexico.

  22. Margaret was always a most earnest, devoted champion of the Emancipation of Women, from their past and present condition of inferiority, to an independence on Men.

  23. Slavery existed in the States that had not participated in the rebellion, and the legality of the Emancipation Proclamation might be drawn in question in the courts.

  24. According to the request made in your behalf, the original draft of the Emancipation Proclamation is herewith enclosed.

  25. First, he occupies the largest place in the public mind in connection with the office, then we wish for a Chief Justice who will sustain what has been done in regard to emancipation and the legal tenders.

  26. I do not recall the name of one man who favored emancipation as a policy and adhered to the Democratic Party.

  27. This of the majority--there was always a minority, usually a small one, who were ready to aid in the elevation of the negro when his emancipation had been accomplished.

  28. In that time the border States had come to realize the fact that the negroes were no longer valuable as property, and they therefore accepted emancipation as a means of ending the controversy.

  29. This emancipation of the personal life from theocratic control, at first achieved in connection with the doctrine of justification, was sure to present itself in other forms.

  30. Since the days of King Karmos each Naba or Naya has added to the great store of treasure amassed for the purpose of the emancipation of our country in the day of need.

  31. I suppose," said my host, "that the repeal of the Test Acts will be merely a precursor of the emancipation of the Papists?

  32. Yes; those who should be the guardians of the religion of England are about to grant Papists emancipation and to remove the disabilities from Dissenters, which will allow the Holy Father to play his own game in England.

  33. I offered her emancipation, the same emancipation as that which I myself have attained.

  34. For the first time since his emancipation he looked back into the past without a shudder.

  35. The moral agitation of thirty years had produced its legitimate results, and when, in 1863, the President promulgated the emancipation proclamation the anti-slavery chapter was closed.

  36. The Battle of MaipĂș, of which San Martin was the victor, completed the emancipation of South America, and made the achievements of Bolivar easy in the Northern Andes.

  37. His emancipation proclamation was pronounced premature and unwise by Lincoln, and revoked.

  38. In 1835, the eminent English orator, George Thompson, came by invitation to the United States to assist in the emancipation of the American, as he had of the West Indian, slave.

  39. Complete emancipation will not come in a day, but it will come, and its arrival will mark the close of the greatest revolution that has taken place in the history of the race.

  40. Defn: In the Buddhist system of religion, the final emancipation of the soul from transmigration, and consequently a beatific enfrachisement from the evils of wordly existence, as by annihilation or absorption into the divine.

  41. Liberty party, the party, in the American Revolution, which favored independence of England; in more recent usage, a party which favored the emancipation of the slaves.

  42. As she approached womanhood she found herself looking forward to marriage far less for its own sake than as a means of emancipation from restrictions on her choice of a career.

  43. Again, he was assured that this emancipation from change and decay was to be found in knowledge.

  44. How could the sage, by whom the strong ship of the Sankhya was launched, on which the man seeking emancipation crosses the ocean of existence, entertain the distinction of friend and foe'?

  45. The only emancipation from self-love is in the perception of an infinite love.

  46. He regards the Buddhist Nirvana as equivalent to the emancipation of the Nyaya system.

  47. Quietly and unostentatiously he has fought for the emancipation of whiskey everywhere.

  48. Let us fight for the Emancipation of Rum!

  49. It is probable, at least, that the English towns had made full as great advances towards emancipation as those of France.

  50. He anticipated Lincoln in proposing the emancipation of the negroes as a military measure.

  51. Long before the outbreak of the rebellion, he had ridiculed emancipation, and denounced as folly and evil the noblest deed of England,--the emancipation of her West India slaves.

  52. Jefferson, a commissioner to revise the statute law of Virginia, prepared a bill for gradual emancipation in that State.

  53. For instance, the liberty of many of the expressions in Love's Comedy led those who were beginning a movement in favor of the emancipation of women to believe that Ibsen was in sympathy with them, but he was not.

  54. If they mean that he has worked for the aggrandisement and for the emancipation of Italy from foreign yoke and Austrian domination, this is true, and he will be called a patriot in history.

  55. The emancipation of the serfs has given a blow to these millennial dreams, and consequently to the more advanced sects of the Raskol: its ruin will be completed by education and material improvement.

  56. The main point of these millennial hopes was the abolition of forced labor and the obrok, the emancipation of the serfs, and the equitable distribution of land and other property.

  57. Of emancipation there can here be no question.

  58. Self-emancipation from weakness and disability is an achievement that will repay much effort on the part of each one of us; and we can all render beneficent social service by exemplifying the art of living wisely.

  59. Those who knew her best had come to despair of her emancipation at the very moment when Prim and Topete actually carried the Revolution to a successful issue.

  60. The lady who writes under the pseudonym of "Emelia Pardo Bazan" may be said to be the leader or the pioneer of women's emancipation in the sense in which we use the words.

  61. Toryism, though the word is unknown there, dies hard in Spain; but there are not wanting signs that the Conservatives of the new school have the progress and emancipation of the country quite as much at heart as any Liberal.


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    Other words:
    deliverance; delivery; freedom; freeing; liberation; liberty; release; rescue