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Example sentences for "subordination"

Lexicographically close words:
subordinate; subordinated; subordinately; subordinates; subordinating; suborn; subornation; suborned; suborning; suboxide
  1. They very properly put her above me in the scale of their affection, and to this subordination I submitted without complaint, or even question.

  2. I do not believe in the subordination of a wife to her husband.

  3. This clause fixes the class of voters; the other clause is in subordination to that, and merely provides, that as touching qualifications, there shall be one and the same standard for the Federal and for the State elector.

  4. But, it is said, is it not subverting the order of the Bible; is it not subverting those sound Christian maxims in respect to the subordination of woman to man?

  5. You will no longer have that healthful and necessary subordination of wife to husband, and that unity of relationship which is required by a true and a real Christian marriage.

  6. As the rule in conformity with which society must be organized, and which distinguishes where the rightful subordination terminates, and where tyranny, whether of majorities or minorities, begins, it can not be too much commended.

  7. In Astronomy, this method is necessarily inapplicable; and it is not till we arrive at Chemistry that this third means of investigation can be used, and then only in subordination to the two others.

  8. All policy that overlooks or contemns this natural subordination in the ends of human existence, must terminate in disaster and misery.

  9. Its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and normal condition.

  10. It should be at least equally free from the vulgar subordination of moral standards to financial interests.

  11. It left men free to follow their own interests or ambitions or appetites, untrammeled by subordination to any common center of allegiance.

  12. From this subordination of creative activity to passive property, the worker who depends upon his brains, the organizer, inventor, teacher or doctor suffers almost as much embarrassment as the craftsman.

  13. For nationalism, like individualism, lays its emphasis on the rights of separate units, not on their subordination to common obligations, though its units are races or nations, not individual men.

  14. Thorough subordination of the college of presbyters to the will of the majority of the congregation, from which circumstance they obtained the name of =Congregationalists=; and 3.

  15. Family teaching must stand in a subordination to ministerial teaching, as families are subordinate to churches; and therefore, (1.

  16. It is in subordination of the specific to the broader subject or class and in collocation of related subjects and subdivisions of classes that most systems fail; and here that most classifiers fail to understand either the fault or the remedy.

  17. The principles of consistent subordination and practical collocation should guide the maker of a system, and his notes should guide the classifier of books.

  18. This critical but optimistic view ascribes the failure of library classifications to the dispersion of related material under subject, or close classification, without proper subordination and collocation.

  19. Here did not appear to be any thing like superiority of rank or subordination established among them; nor could it be remarked, that three old men who were in the party, received any peculiar marks of esteem from the rest.

  20. We observed, however, a remarkable subordination among the people.

  21. That represents the best side of Carlyle's teaching; the subordination of material objects, the supremacy of the moral law.

  22. Froude preached the subordination of the Church to the State; and while supporters of the voluntary principle regarded him with suspicion, adherents to the sacerdotal principle shrank from him with horror.

  23. It is a right to be exercised in subordination to the Constitution and in conformity to it.

  24. In fact, in these last four years, we have made the exercise of all power more democratic; for we have begun to bring private autocratic powers into their proper subordination to the public's government.

  25. I have more than once seen sixty thousand of them reviewed, at one time, on the plains of the Cape, in complete subordination in the field, and whose united determination against an invading enemy, would be victory or death!

  26. Indeed, such complete subordination prevailed, so much promptness and dexterity, as must astonish an European who had known any thing of their previous situation.

  27. A strict subordination of ranks was established which has been aptly compared to the feudal system.

  28. The fact, that certain grades of superiority and subordination are needful, both for individual and public benefit, has not been clearly discerned; and there has been a gradual tendency to an extreme, which has sensibly affected our manners.

  29. From that time to this, there has been no want of subordination or industry among them.

  30. The perfect subordination which was established and the industry which prevailed there, are proved by the official Reports of the Governor of Guadaloupe, to the French government.

  31. Pius IV, the clever lawyer, had a great share in the work of the Council, but his most skilful achievement was to maintain and confirm the doctrine of the subordination of Councils to the Papacy.

  32. The Papacy did not like this position of subordination and resented any interference in papal affairs.


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    Other words:
    assortment; continuity; degree; domination; gradation; grouping; hierarchy; humility; inferiority; minority; place; placement; rank; ranking; selection; sequence; service; servility; sifting; sorting; subjection; subordination; subservience; taxonomy