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Example sentences for "supremacy"

Lexicographically close words:
suprarenal; suprarenals; supratympanic; supream; supreame; supreme; supremely; supremest; supremum; sups
  1. The liturgy was again introduced in the vulgar tongue, and the oath of supremacy was tendered to the clergy.

  2. Their conferring an unlimited supremacy on the queen, or, what is worse, acknowledging her inherent right to it, was another proof of their voluntary servitude.

  3. However you pretend supremacy In aught beside that gold, your very own.

  4. This same midsummer month, a week ago, Was not the memorable day observed For reinstatement of the misused Three In old supremacy forevermore?

  5. It is the brightest and most encouraging feature of the War that British supremacy at sea is unchallenged and probably unchallengeable by Germany.

  6. Thanks to our unchallenged supremacy afloat, the Allies have been able to move in all parts of the world with a security unknown in any other war in history.

  7. This process of correlation is the highest triumph of the jurist, and it was by their easy supremacy in this field of thought, that Roman lawyers chiefly showed their preeminence as compared with modern lawyers.

  8. As this central mass swayed, so did supremacy incline.

  9. But while it is therefore undeniable that a knowledge of this Great Being exists among the natives, and that the belief is held that he is a superior and even a supreme being, that supremacy is not so great as what we ascribe to Jehovah.

  10. There is no supremacy in regard to age in the division of property.

  11. Though supreme, His supremacy was not exclusive; it was comparative.

  12. But though that section was united in its determination to support the supremacy of slavery, it was far from being united in its opinions as to the best mode of accomplishing its object.

  13. The issue involved is whether the supremacy of the Constitution shall be maintained by the people's Representatives.

  14. I repel, sir, the intimation of the gentleman from New York, Mr. Brooks, that I am careless of the obligation of my oath or unconcerned about the supremacy of the Constitution and the laws.

  15. Every man within its jurisdiction, official and unofficial, must bow to the supremacy of the Constitution.

  16. South Gay Street, against all persons whomsoever, his title to supremacy in curlery, wiggery, and razory, to the amount of one hundred dollars and upwards.

  17. Its high estimation is universally acknowledged; it has the suffrage of the whole world, so much so, that at all times and in all seasons its supremacy is admitted and its influence recognized.

  18. The Christian world, more materialistic than the others, obtained the upper hand and exerted its supremacy over the globe.

  19. The rose beds of yesteryear have turned wild and now prickly bushes bearing anemic flowers stoop to the ground, fighting for supremacy in the flower garden.

  20. On one side is the rightful supremacy of the reasonable but remote good; on the other side is the aversion of those springs to action which are immediately most urgent.

  21. On the other hand, indicating the supremacy of the voluntary attitude over consequences, we have, "What shall a man give in exchange for his soul?

  22. Hope and aspiration, belief in the supremacy of good in spite of all evil, belief in the realizability of good in spite of all obstacles, are necessary inspirations in the life of virtue.

  23. Canossa symbolized the supremacy of the spiritual over the temporal power, and there is a sublime audacity, moral as well as political, in the famous Bull of Boniface VIII.

  24. Above all, it is seeking to bring about in more intimate fashion that supremacy of the moral order in all human relations for which the church was theoretically contending.

  25. There is nothing in the selfhood of others, because they are others, which gives it any supremacy over selfhood in oneself.

  26. Only a force and supremacy that was real, and not nominal, could make it to submit.

  27. The assertion of the supremacy of the woman in the marriage relation is contained in chapter v.

  28. For one thousand five hundred years, Christianity meant Catholicism, and to the reign of her undisputed supremacy belongs every important discovery, every material progress, the world has ever made.

  29. Recusancy was denying the Supremacy of the Queen and adhering to the Pope as Supreme Head of the Church.

  30. The refusal to take the oath of supremacy to the state.

  31. Never had he pictured to himself a woman so charming as this grub, now become a butterfly, proved herself; and never had he imagined that even his wife could obtain so beautiful a supremacy as she gradually established and never lost.

  32. The topics of the lectures are historical, embracing the chief difficulties presented in the earlier, mediæval, and later history of the Roman pontiffs respecting the supremacy and infallibility of the successors of S.

  33. The oaths of allegiance and supremacy enjoined by the statutes of 1 Eliz.

  34. The Pope, in other respects, was still to be left a position of supremacy in the collective Christian Church, and the adjudication of matters of importance on which the primates could not agree.

  35. The aspect of human nature and human experience that especially aroused his sympathy was the loneliness of beneficent intellectual grandeur, isolated by its supremacy and pathetic in its isolation.

  36. We cannot perceive how any persons holding the supremacy and independence of his authority could ever have reconciled with their logic the dependence of his authority with reference to teaching.

  37. It is a great and an arduous thing which is required of them; to submit patiently to the supremacy of the higher classes.

  38. The second phase was the union of the burghers, or the tiers état, and the people or a portion of them against monarchy and the church, which issued in establishing the supremacy of the burghers.

  39. It is most important and necessary that all Catholics should be fully instructed in the sovereign supremacy and doctrinal infallibility of the Pope, and the strict obligation in conscience of supporting his temporal sovereignty.

  40. Force first imposed itself on weakness; then intelligence conquered force; lastly, justice and love, which is the supreme form and flower of righteousness, obtain supremacy over intelligence itself.

  41. He visited the most savage tribes in person, and acquired a marvellous moral supremacy over them.

  42. Though the form of the federal government was fixed and its theoretical supremacy has never since been questioned, its real power at first was feeble.

  43. The interval of unquestioned colorado supremacy which followed was one of the most flourishing periods in the history of Uruguay.

  44. Everything external to the group and not participating in its illusion of supremacy must be kept external to it.

  45. Every nation appears to have its own idols, its concealments and its self-deceptions, its belief in its own supremacy and divine mission, and its innocent faith in its own mores.

  46. It was a conflict between two ideas of life, one based upon a belief in the supremacy of reason, the other implying that the final test of values in life remains in the sphere of the feelings, or is a matter of appreciation.

  47. Every nation presumably has somewhere in the back of its mind a belief in its own supremacy in something, and has a sense of being or having something that makes it unique in the world.

  48. In such desires there is thinly veiled the hope that through religion the old claim of nations to the right to temporal supremacy may be vindicated.

  49. Its ideal is a world containing many nations, coördinated by natural processes and not a world in which a single nation or a few may hold the supreme place, except as this supremacy might come by a process of natural development.

  50. This mysticism of the German contains a powerful belief in race superiority, and in the supremacy of the culture of their own nation, beliefs which have the clear marks of mysticism about them.

  51. An assembly in which the temper of Wade and Chandler, of Stevens and Sumner, was entering the ascendent, was an assembly to be feared; its supremacy was to be denied, its power was to be fought.

  52. The policy of the Vindictives was to force upon the Administration the double issue of emancipation and the supremacy of Congress.

  53. I merely record this unparalleled insolence of epaulettes without comment It is the first indication I have yet seen of the threatened supremacy of the military authorities.

  54. He also proposed the Committee's way of escape: nothing but to offer peace to Davis "on the sole condition of acknowledging the supremacy of the Constitution--all other questions to be settled in a convention of the people of all the States.

  55. Similarly, there is no divine right of a class or caste, enjoying supremacy or special privilege.

  56. Plato probably did more for physical science by asserting the supremacy of mathematics than Aristotle or his disciples by their collections of facts.

  57. The greatest 'divination' of the ancients was the supremacy which they assigned to mathematics in all the realms of nature; for in all of them there is a foundation of mechanics.


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