Sentence examples for in subjection to from inspiring English sources
Most peasants were organized in subjection to lords bishops, abbots, counts, barons, or knights whose estates assumed diverse forms.
She and her persecutor emerge united in subjection to something greater than their own ugly story and mysteriously untarnished by it: their church.
His setting of Aladdin Sane is a revisit to The Rite of Spring, as dancer Simon Williams torques and twists in subjection to the music's jangling rhythms.
The negro's skin and the woman's sex are both prima facie evidence that they were intended to be in subjection to the white Saxon man" (Stanton 1860/1881, 681).
One short quotation is sufficient to illustrate the problem: "If woman is made to please and to be in subjection to man, she ought to make herself pleasing in his eyes and not provoke him …her strength is in her charms" (324).
Romans 13:1 clearly states that: "Every person is to be in subjection to the governing authorities.
The setting is the modern Greece in which the fisherfolk sit around, as someone remarks, in joyless subjection to their economic woes.
The paper then explores the ways in which subjection to investors enables executives to speak on behalf of the investor within the business and effect its restructuring in the name of shareholder value.
Anyone who has read Bruges-la-Morte is likely to see this as a kind of double portrait, of the author and of his bereaved and obsessive hero, Hugues Viane, haunting the deserted quays, in strange subjection to his chosen city.
Discussions revolved around moving forward on issues critical to adolescents such as addressing the stubborn persistence of high rates of child marriage despite legislative prohibition, pervasive youth participation in and subjection to violence, disproportionate rates of female illiteracy and educational exclusion, and adolescent anger and despair over lack of jobs.
In the wake of a worldwide wave of religious resurgence at the beginning of the twenty-first century, many feminists find Stanton's reasoning still persuasive: the Word of God is the word of man, used to keep women in subjection and to hinder their emancipation.
