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Example sentences for "relegate"

Lexicographically close words:
releases; releaseth; releasing; releefe; releeue; relegated; relegates; relegating; relegation; releif
  1. Heine to relegate the conversion to the domain of pathology--but followed after many years of diligent and honest study and research.

  2. It is caprice which makes her prevent me from developing the expansive forces within me, and relegate me to a place among vain and wearisome things, merely because I love her.

  3. We relegate him to a place at our side, vanquished and subdued, with a few tiresome playthings, like an Alfieri in the box at the theater.

  4. To what point of the Palaeozoic epoch, then, must we, upon any rational estimate, relegate the origin of the Monotremata?

  5. We must relegate to the domain of fable the cases of this kind which are announced from time to time in publications for the popularisation of science so called.

  6. With the expansion of European colonisation the characters of the Latin alphabet become more and more prevalent; in Europe even, they tend to relegate to the second place the other characters (gothic, cyrilic, etc.

  7. The result of the embassy, we see, was not very promising for Charles VIII; so he resolved to rely on his ally Ludovico Sforza alone, and to relegate all other questions to the fortunes of war.

  8. To give him a name would be to relegate him at once to the ranks of those commonplace offenders who quickly exhaust our interest and our tears.

  9. The sultan, who as yet did not dare to act openly against the Tepelenian family, was at least able to relegate Veli to the obscure post of Lepanto, and Veli, much disgusted, was obliged to obey.

  10. These differences were caused on the one hand by the political activities of Germany as a world power, and on the other by her commercial and industrial expansion which bid fair to relegate Great Britain to a subordinate position.

  11. It would have been preferable, however, to relegate such personal likes and dislikes to the background where politics or business were concerned.

  12. The needs of action relegate the greater portion of it to the sub-conscious, but it is there, always linked to our conscious experience, and only awaiting the occasion to emerge into the full light of consciousness.

  13. We need not with him relegate the core of personal being to the realm of idea.

  14. On the other hand, every reflective choice tends to relegate some conscious issue into a deed or habit henceforth taken for granted and not thought upon.

  15. Still worse, on neither side was there enough resolute calmness to relegate the small body of extremists to their proper place as a minority, and to take matters out of their hands.

  16. At the North they were rivals as suitors for the favor of the new Free-soil faction--for at that time it was only a faction which Know-Nothingism was destined presently to relegate temporarily to the background.

  17. Still man can not utterly relegate himself from all sense of obligation, and all feeling of dependence upon God.

  18. That which would relegate man from the sphere of responsibility would also banish him from the sphere of rationality.

  19. It's mighty convenient to be able to relegate your proofs to that mysterious realm beyond the grave.

  20. If matter and material modes are real, then we must at once relegate the stories of the virgin birth, the miracles, the resurrection, and the ascension to the realm of myth.

  21. Such facts as these--if facts they be--relegate much of the Scriptural authority to the realm of legend and myth!

  22. Planck though unwilling to relegate Strigel to the Pelagians, does not hesitate to put him down as a thoroughgoing Synergist.

  23. In a crushing manner Luther here denounced "the specter of the new spirits who dare thrust the Law or the Ten Commandments out of the church and relegate it to the courthouse.

  24. The consciousness of a recollection "never occurs as a weak state which we try to relegate to the past so soon as we become aware of its weakness.

  25. To read it aright, and duly to estimate its grandeur, we must relegate to the conclusion of the story all worrying questions, impossible of final solution, as to whom the writer intended by Belshazzar, or whom by Darius the Mede.

  26. Others relegate the entire vision to periods separated from the Maccabean age by hundreds of years, or even into the remotest future.

  27. Commentators relegate all difficulties to the direct intervention of Providence.

  28. But in leaving them out of account, it does not exclude them from reality, nor relegate them to a purely mental region; it only furnishes means utilizable for ends.

  29. This reconstruction must relegate purely literary methods--including textbooks--and dialectical methods to the position of necessary auxiliary tools in the intelligent development of consecutive and cumulative activities.

  30. Our economic conditions still relegate many men to a servile status.

  31. Serpollet, de Dion, and Bollee prepared steam cars that should win back for steam its lost supremacy, while the petrol faction secretly built motors of a strength to relegate steam once and for all to a back place.

  32. An alternative theory is to relegate the rays to the gap in the scale of ether-waves between heatwaves and light-waves.

  33. The treatment of these categories is so inextricably mixed up with that of the other inmates of the workhouse that we relegate the matter to our subsequent sections.

  34. Your heart is only a tiny room after all, and if you cram it full of the world, you relegate your Master to the stable outside.

  35. On the other hand, as one only discovered a little angel with Peter in the distance, one could almost suppose Teniers had forgotten them until the last minute, and then had finally decided to relegate them to the background.

  36. I can't bear his portraits, he has just painted me and my wife, and we have had to relegate both the pictures to the 'Servants' Hall.

  37. So now, still looking down at the trees and daffodils, he drew a long breath and tried to smile over what had been a trick of the imagination and to relegate Karen to the place of half-humorous dreams.

  38. He could not relegate Karen Woodruff as a dear little girl.

  39. Was not it about time gently to reduce her, relegate her to a more modest position?

  40. Meanwhile, read this--agreeing to relegate discussion of it to a less hungry season.


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