Sentence examples for subjection the from inspiring English sources

Despite political subjection, the continued Hurrian ethnic and cultural presence in Syria and the Cilician region (Kizzuwadna) strongly influenced the Hittites.

Mentor, who was governor of the entire Asiatic seaboard, exerted himself successfully to reduce to subjection the many chiefs who during the recent troubles had assumed an independent authority, and in the course of a few years brought the whole coast into complete submission and dependence.

One of them, his publicity chief, North Carolina publisher Josephus Daniels, who became his Secretary of the Navy, spoke for all when he wrote, just before the election, that "the subjection of the negro politically, and the separation of the negro socially, are paramount to all other considerations in the South short of the preservation of the Republic itself".

A party had been formed in the Carolingian Empire to combat the subjection of the church to the state.

A further series of campaigns led, by 960, to the subjection of the Slavs between the middle Elbe and the middle Oder.

That Bible passage, also known as the "Curse of Canaan," was originally understood to justify the subjection of the Canaanites to the Israelites.

But the two are incompatible with the nature of supererogatory action, which is optional and personal on the one hand and not motivated by the subjection to the moral law on the other.

This two-step method involved the mesylation of 15- OH with mesic anhydride, followed by the subjection of the crude mesylate solution to the Pd-catalyzed arylation conditions to afford the desired product 15a, albeit in modest yield (52%).

His greatest success lay in the subjection of the Thuringians, achieved with the help of Chlotar about 531.

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".

The charter that the Estates extorted from Gustav when he became king in 1611 might well have entailed the virtual subjection of the monarchy to the council and the high aristocracy.