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Example sentences for "subserved"

Lexicographically close words:
subsection; subsections; subsequent; subsequently; subserve; subserves; subservience; subserviency; subservient; subserving
  1. Thus the Classics, which in England are the means of refining the taste, have in France subserved the spread of revolutionary and deistical doctrines.

  2. How well these purposes are subserved is left with the individual, the race or the nation.

  3. Man has devised successful substitutes for natural food for babies, but these should be used only when the best good of all concerned can be subserved thereby.

  4. This use of skin disfigurements prevails among the lower races to the present day, and it is only one of many utilitarian and non-esthetic functions subserved by them.

  5. It would not have comported with a friendly policy in Spain herself to have established a custom house there, since it could have subserved no other purpose than to elude our revenue law.

  6. It is being used for certain naval purposes which might easily and adequately be subserved by a small division connected with the Naval Department at only a fraction of the cost of the present Naval Observatory.

  7. Indeed, your committee believes that the public interest would be subserved if the Secretaries were relieved of the harassing cares of distributing clerkships and closely supervising the mere machinery of the departments.

  8. If it is to be natural and to be moral asceticism must have an end outside itself, it must subserve the ends of vital activity, which cannot be subserved by a person who is engaged in a perpetual struggle with his own natural instincts.

  9. The strictly small and confined monogamic family, however excellently it subserved the interests of the offspring, contained no promise of a wider social progress.

  10. It is an arrangement mainly determined by the demands of men, to whatever extent it may have incidentally subserved various needs of women.

  11. It is difficult to surmise what practical purpose could have been subserved by these small upright stones.

  12. There were here the best opportunities to employ my talents, since this fruitful land produced in abundance whatever subserved for pleasure and luxury as well as usefulness and comfort.

  13. The architect must have satisfied the king that some highly important purpose in which the king himself was interested, would be subserved by the structure.

  14. They thus subserve purposes which in English are subserved by differentiated adjectives as distinct parts of speech.

  15. When the parts of speech are fully differentiated and the process of placement fully specialized, so that the order of words in sentences has its full significance, no useful purpose is subserved by inflection.

  16. If this involves the surrender or postponement of private interests and the abandonment of local advantages, compensation will be found in the assurance that the common interest is subserved and the general welfare advanced.

  17. The public interests are subserved by car-load classification of property that, on account of the volume transported to reach markets or supply the demands of trade throughout the country, legitimately or usually moves in such quantities.

  18. The only end that could be subserved by assuming a Divine purpose would be at most to enable us in some slight degree to argue what the purpose of some things might be--and that is of no interest or value to science.

  19. And yet at times their best interests are subserved by suspending their rules temporarily.

  20. I am not advising the whig party to disband; on the contrary, I believe that the interests of the country will be subserved by their hanging together as a band of brothers.

  21. It happens, however, that discussion of values has usually been centered about a consideration of the various ends subserved by specific subjects of the curriculum.

  22. To a hungry, healthy child, food is a good of the situation; we do not have to bring him to consciousness of the ends subserved by food in order to supply a motive to eat.

  23. The interests of justice and our finances would have been much better subserved had their payment been conditioned upon the loyalty of the owner.

  24. Both the interests of humanity and horseflesh would be best subserved by such employment, and the ranks would not be reduced by the constant and heavy details of able-bodied men for that duty.

  25. And that library which shall most sedulously gather and preserve such fugitive memorials of the life of the people among which it is situated will be found to have best subserved its purpose to the succeeding generations of men.

  26. By this means the interests of these railroad managers are subserved in more than one particular.

  27. It cannot be urged that the interests of the people are subserved by this assumption of power; on the contrary, these acts of congress take from the public its rights reserved by the constitution.

  28. Perhaps all of these purposes were subserved by them.

  29. In this instance, they may have subserved some of the purposes of the mounds.


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