Sentence examples for complete subjection from inspiring English sources

Yet this ancient liberty came at a price that we would find prohibitively high — "the complete subjection of the individual to the authority of the group".

Moreover, it was generally feared that the breakup of China into economic segments dominated by various great powers would lead to complete subjection and the division of the country into colonies.

There was, however, an institution called nexum, of which little can be said with certainty except that it was a kind of loan so oppressive in character that it could result in the debtor's complete subjection to the creditor.

Friedrich was a deeply religious man whose vision demanded complete subjection to the spirit of God in nature; in suggesting through landscape the eternal presence of the Creator, he intended to induce in the beholder a state of religious awe.

"The wife is in the power of her husband," so runs the common saying, and the fact of her complete subjection to his will is illustrated by certain symbolical acts performed at the time of the wedding.

And the Christianity of 13th-century Europe -- a time of bloody crusades and inquisitions, when Pope Boniface VIII proclaimed that complete subjection to him was "utterly necessary for the salvation of every living creature" -- is very different from the Christianity of John XXIII, who wrote in his diary that "the whole world is my family".

Its total control brings the Palestinians to utter subjection and total despair.

Anarawd (died 916), a son of Rhodri, subsequently submitted to Alfred (died 899) and completed the formal subjection of the Welsh kingdoms to the English sovereign.

Subjection and Subjectivity.

Meyers, Diana T. Subjection and Subjectivity.

Arterioles and venules of similar size and hierarchy in the adjacent, healthy tissue appeared functional, despite their concomitant subjection to the complete VTP protocol.