I couldn't say at what point "toward" first began to subsume all other prepositions.
This schedule changed surprisingly little after 1914, when the outbreak of the Great War in Europe began to subsume all other concerns.
When he says, in a commentary on Manet's "Le Linge," that a palpable atmosphere is beginning to subsume distinct human figures, he not only captures the direction of Impressionist painting but articulates a process unfolding in his own work.
Over time, this first wave of dating sites began to be subsumed and crushed by the behemoths: Udate, match.com, datingdirect.com, offering simple functionality, instant messaging features and lots of room for photographs.
In this period, changes in settlement and colonisation meant that the Pictish and Brythonic languages began to be subsumed by Gaelic, English, and, at the end of the period, by Old Norse.
To be Parisian -- to be from anywhere, really -- is to understand the cultural complexities of that identity that cannot be subsumed or learned with a pithy solidarity meme on social media, and the only way to even begin to understand another culture is by living there.
At some point the narrative begins to feel rushed, subsumed by the generic action of chases, fights and dimensional transit.
Two thousand years ago, the military adventurer unified the country for the first time by subsuming six warring states and began to build the Great Wall.
The Qin emperor was a military adventurer who unified the country for the first time by subsuming six warring states and began to build the Great Wall.
However, as early as the 1920s, the car began to decentralise the city, and the need for parking subsumed downtown.
