Sentence examples for emancipating from inspiring English sources

He detested conventional public opinion and feared that complete democracy, far from emancipating opinion, would make it more restrictive.

When he returned to Russia, the new emperor, Alexander II, made him a prince, named him president of both the state council and the council of ministers, and in 1858 appointed him chairman of a committee to investigate the problems of emancipating the serfs.

In the 21st century multiculturalism was both welcomed as emancipating and scorned as divisive, as was the diffuse anti-Americanism, which for many stood in for antimodernism.

In 1855 Nicholas I died, and soon thereafter Alexander II proclaimed his intention of emancipating the serfs.

When the committee, composed primarily of conservative landowners, failed to draw pertinent conclusions, Alexander publicly authorized the formation of provincial committees of noblemen to formulate plans for emancipating the serfs (December 1857).

Meanwhile tiny coquettish female actresses dressed in modern-day Victoria's Secret empowering burlesque garb lie on clean, white linen saying things like: "Ooh sir! Being a whore is proper good fun, this oral sex you're giving me is well emancipating!

In Japan, the American occupation under General Douglas MacArthur effected a peaceful revolution, restoring civil rights, universal suffrage, and parliamentary government, reforming education, encouraging labour unions, and emancipating women.

He portrayed the relationships of man's body and soul and the universe in a new way, often emancipating poetry from contemporary conventions.

It was the sole instance in which slavery reparations were authorized — and it compensated slaveholders in Washington, D.C., for the cost of emancipating their human chattel.

And after every step — refusing to return slaves escaping from the Confederacy, enlisting blacks in the Union army, emancipating slaves in the rebel states but not the border states, and only then passing the Thirteenth Amendment — he waited until public opinion had, yes, evolved just enough to make the next step possible.

The first self-emancipating slaves who sought the protection of the swamp in the late 17th century probably joined the remnants of long-defeated Native American groups who had sought the protection of the swamp much earlier.