Prometheus recognises him as the liberator, and the Sandow of mythology breaks the Titan's fetters and slays the hovering eagle of Zeus.
In fact, on the one hand it recognises Scripture only as the source of truth, one and always the same, from the beginning of the Church to the end: how then should it vary as Popery has done?
This leads us back to the previous question, on what this feeling of approbation is founded, and at once recognises a principle, distinct from the mere perception of utility.
In a healthy state of the moral feelings, the man recognises its claim to supreme dominion.
What pangs of shame and terror will be hers, when she recognises in the enemy triumphing over her grievous downfall the heathen "friends" whose love she had courted so long!
Now herecognises a Word of God in the protest of his better feeling.
The forecast is plainly of a Messianic nature; it recognises in Iahvah the Saviour, not of a nation, but of the world.
Everybody recognises Tolstoy as the iconoclast of all patriotism; but nobody could be more Russian than Tolstoy.
To put the matter shortly, England recognises a criminal class at the bottom of the social scale.
This is the great difference; that America recognises rich crooks as a class.
America also recognises a criminal class at the top of the social scale.
No man recognises his own unfitness for such work more clearly than I do, Mr. Monk.
He has probably the virtue of being true to Mr. Mildmay, and of being duly submissive to one whom he recognises as his superior.
It recognises that we are surrounded in every field of social and political life by infinitely difficult problems for which there is no easy solution.
Yet every one recognises the damage inflicted by industrial disputes, and would admit in the abstract the desirability of a more rational method of settlement than that of pitting combination against combination.
The teacher recognises what is good in the child's disposition and endeavours to build on it a self-respect which may at all times be invoked against temptations to bad conduct.
So he recognisesthe justice of being held accountable for the directly resulting consequences of his acts quite as readily as he accepts the fact, without blaming any one else, that he will be burned if he touches fire.
German Social Democracy no longer recognises the Iron Law of Wages.
It recognises in all past history a preparation for this achievement, and in the industrial tendencies of to-day it hails the workings out of those laws of human progress which bring that object within our reach.
It recognises no distinction between the various nations comprising the modern civilised world.
Socialism recognises that wealth is a good thing, and it exists for the purpose of securing a better share of it for the 'blessed' poor.
In both cases the Apostle recognises the Divine action, carrying into effect a Divine threat and a Divine promise.
Whatever we may think of this doctrine, there can be no question that the New Testament recognises the idea of representation.
Moses recognises that the Lord is longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression.
If they prove satisfactory, he recognises "a call.
That is the true voice of devotion which recognises God, not man, in all victories, and answers the forthflashing of His delivering power by the thunder of praise.
To the psalmist, that law was revealed by Pentateuch and prophets; but the delight in it, in which he recognises the germ of godliness, is the coincidence of will and inclination with the declared will of God, however declared.
The invocation "my King" is full of meaning if the singer be David, who thus recognises the delegated character of his own royalty; but whoever wrote the psalm, that expression equally witnesses to his firm grasp of the true theocratic idea.
Resignation and shrinking blend in that cry, in which a heart conscious of evil confesses as well as implores, recognises the justice and yet deprecates the utmost severity of the blow.
As a calf recognises and approaches its parent in the midst of even a thousand kine, even so the acts of a past life recognise and visit the doer in his new life.
Quintilian [42] recognises his talent, but condemns the morality of his plays.
An English vulgarian is often hushed into silence by the presence of his social superior; an American vulgarian either recognises none such or tries to prove himself as good as you by being unnecessarily grob.
Neither Briton nor American can do full justice to the other unless each recognises that the other is fashioned of a somewhat different clay.
Miss Emily Faithful admits that at first it seems rough and new, but says that when one returns to it from the West, one recognises that it has everything essential in common with his European experiences.
A higher stage of development is reached when an individual member of a group recognises the relationship in which he stands to the other members of the group, together with a realisation of the duties which such relationship involves.
A still higher degree of development of the social consciousness results when the group as a whole recognises that it possesses social duties and responsibilities.
But man, like other animals, lives in an unending stream of sense impressions, of innumerable sights and sounds and feelings, and is only stirred to deed or thought by those which he recognises as significant to him.
There is a law written on the heart of every rational human being, under the guidance of which he recognises a distinction between good and evil, right and wrong.
The peaceful population recognises this fact; the foreign Embassies recognise only such documents as are signed by the Mayor of the town.
On the 30th a meeting of representatives of all the Petrograd regiments passed a resolution: "The Petrograd garrison no longer recognises the Provisional Government.
His devotion is to "reasoned truth": he challenges his friends to the fullest scrutiny by their own independent reason: he recognises the sentence which they pronounce afterwards as valid for them, whether concurrent with himself or adverse.
Boeckh explicitly recognises them as works of an author contemporary with Plato, not later than 380 B.
But he recognises different varieties of madness, according to the God from whom it came: the bad madness was a disastrous visitation and distemper--the good madness was a privilege and blessing, an inspiration superior to human reason.
He recognises no acquisition of knowledge except through special teaching.
He does not consider such ignorant persons as qualified to judge: he recognises only the judgment of the knowing one or few, among whom he affirms that there can be no difference of opinion.
Aristotle recognises between these two logical correlatives a difference in rank.
Parallelism recognises all these things, and I do likewise.
It would be a wonderful advantage if every scientific specialist would make out a list of the non-significant properties that he recognises in matter.
Tennyson recognises this in the well-known lyric where he says of the dead warrior's wife-- "She must weep or she will die.
To a person who recognises that every event depends on causes, a thing's having happened once is a reason for expecting it to happen again, only because proving that there exists, or is liable to exist, a cause adequate to produce it.
The one recognises no ultimate premises but the facts of our subjective consciousness; our sensations, emotions, intellectual states of mind, and volitions.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "recognises" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
