The judgment of his superiors and of those who knew him well was made severer by the knowledge of his weakness in this respect.
He is therefore in much closer relations to his superiors than he would be as division commander merely.
The threshold of the new campaign is a fit place to pick up the threads of the relations of Sherman to his superiors and his subordinates, and to notice the manner in which he laid out the responsible work before him.
The letters of this courageous and zealous servant of the Church to his superiors teem with information concerning the Indians, whom he endeavored to Christianize,[830] and at whose hands he died.
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Although in the general instructions of his superiors Rising was cautioned against engaging in hostilities with the Hollanders, such was not the personal counsel of Axel Oxenstjerna; and a letter of Erik Oxenstjerna, dated Jan.
The sons of the nobles who were placed in the seminaries were never permitted to go out unless accompanied by one of the superiors of the temple; their food was brought to them by their parents.
As a rule, the old samurai were not given to smiling upon all occasions; they reserved their amiability for superiors and intimates, and would seem to have maintained toward inferiors an austere reserve.
One would almost have thought from their deportment that they considered themselves the superiors instead of the slaves of the congregation.
My superiors being sick or otherwise occupied, I was allowed to make a night-march with thirty-five men on a farm nine miles away--just to get square.
The South Americans are our superiors in some respects; we are their superiors in other respects.
Politics has no difficulty in agreeing with morals in the first sense of the term, as ethics, to secure that men should give to superiors their rights.
And what bloodshed hath not this erroneous doctrine caused, that kings are not superiors to, but administrators for the multitude!
But in the Church even superiors are enlightened and taught by their inferiors, as the Apostle says (1 Cor.
Power" signifies a kind of ordination both as regards the reception of Divine things, and as regards the Divine actions performed by superiors towards inferiors by leading them to things above.
Therefore, likewise in the heavenly hierarchy, the superiorscan be enlightened by inferiors.
Further, superiors are responsible as regards negligence for the evil deeds of their subjects.
This general, in an audience before the senate, signified to them the interest which his superiors took in the war which they heard was carrying on against the Romans, and offered them their assistance.
So much, at least, for the ordinary chances of war--he was beginning to wonder how much had been added to these perils by the matter of the pass and whether his superiors would see the situation as it had appeared to his eyes.
He was subordinate to his superiors in rank to the extent that he could execute an order which changed his own plans with the same zeal he would have displayed if the plan had been his own.
On one occasion was revealed to her the severe judgment which God will make of superiors and directors of religious communities, by whose fault any relaxation of fervor creeps amongst those committed to their care.
Tractableness and dutifulness towards superiors is the most essential virtue of that age, next to the obligation of religion, which we owe to God.
Superiors especially lie under the most grievous obligations to check and chastise the irregularities and faults of those under their immediate care and inspection.
And, although He continued to repeat His command and even to reproach her for not fulfilling it; and although her stomach rejected every other food but bread, yet her superiors obstinately refused to accede to her petition.
But Almighty God, wishing at the same time to put her obedience to her superiors to the test, caused them all to refuse her their permission, without which she could not put the Divine command in practice.
He committed this royal foundation to the Dominican friars, and the prior, who is nominated by the king, is exempt from the ordinary jurisdiction both of the archbishop of Aix, and of the immediate superiors of his Order.
He called for all the abbots and superiors of his Order, and telling them he was soon to leave them, strongly exhorted them to watch vigilantly over the most exact observance of their rule, and to maintain peace and fraternal charity.
Skinner as follows: "Superiors with tawny central area and border same as upper side.
Under side: Superiors have the two subapical silver spots and silver spots on margin well defined; color of inner half of wing rosy.
I am afraid that the child is too condescending to his inferiors, whilst to his superiorshe is apt to be unbending enough; I don't believe that would do in the world; I am sure it would not in the army.
In a spasm of industry he would arrange with his superiorsto work nights until he was again abreast of his duties.
I shall have you before your superiors on charges before I'm done!
That there are people who succeed brilliantly and move from success to success, amid an applauding crowd of friends and admirers, while others, apparently their superiors in every way, are distanced in the race, is an undeniable fact.
He manifested so much ardor, that the superiors deemed it fitting to clothe him with the habit before the usual time had expired.
While at school, he usually gave part of his slender dinner to the poor, and was so much addicted to fasting, that his superiors were obliged, by strict commands, to compel him to moderate his austerities.
In a spirit of compunction he begged of his superiors that they would enjoin him some severe penance, to expiate the vain satisfaction and complacency which he said he had sometimes taken in teaching.
During the exile of St. Thomas of Canterbury, he and the othersuperiors of his Order were accused of having sent him succors abroad.
He strenuously labored to subdue his passions by extreme humiliations, obedience even to the last person in the house, by silence and prayer; and his superiors employed him in the meanest offices, often in washing the dishes in the scullery.
The superiors of other houses of this order retain the name of commanders, and the houses are called commaranderies, as when they were hospitallers; so that the general is the only abbot.
By a singular institution, he appointed the abbess superioress over the men, who live in a remote monastery, whose superiors she nominates.
Arrogant a little with some folks, in the company of his superiors he was magnanimously docile.
Obedience to the will of his superiors is the only reason for all that, in the case of other human beings, depends on their own volition.
He saw that the Church and its ministers treated his superiors very differently from their treatment of him, and expected from him quite different conduct from that which they expected from them.
But the question why his superiors sent him there, was still one that might suggest itself, though it was little likely ever to be answered.
There were written codes embracing almost every attitude and act of inferiors toward superiors, of superiors toward inferiors, and of equals toward equals.
The correlative deities of the mandarins are only of equal rank, yet the fact that they have been apotheosized makes them their superiors and fit objects of worship.
I wrote: 'Being in the army is just like being back at school; the only difference is that whereas at school your superiors generally know a little bit more about things than you do, in the army that is not the case.
And his superiors were bullied by their superiors.
He was in reality quite a kind-hearted man, but he was bullied by hissuperiors just as we were bullied by ours.
The said superiors had recourse to the said very reverend archbishop, asking him to forbid to the said auditor the cognizance of the said cause, and to protect the said property as being ecclesiastical.
This was the attitude of the delegate and the superiors of the regulars; the archbishop, nevertheless, continued to bring suits against some regulars, whom he censured as agitators.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "superiors" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
