Sentence examples for to subjection from inspiring English sources

But this was certainly an exaggeration, because the Lombards adopted too many customs from the Romans for the latter to have been reduced entirely to subjection.

Mortality is what each person now inherits at birth and what leads an individual to struggle for existence, to self-affirmation at the expense of others, and ultimately to subjection to the laws of animal life.

It means that understanding forms of equality and freedom tied to inequality, and to subjection to the forces of state and market, calls for deeper modes of thought than those we have inherited from the 18th century.

Results show that subjection to heat-rain cycles leads to a larger degradation of the tensile behaviour compared to subjection to freeze-thaw cycles.

Hobbes's near descendant, John Locke, insisted in his Second Treatise of Government that the state of nature was indeed to be preferred to subjection to the arbitrary power of an absolute sovereign.

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.

A historian who chose to specialize in 17th-century France to avoid subjection to paeans of Marxism-Leninism, he is a man who understands Russia's mixture of subtlety and brutality.

(DJN VI.2.2) Children supposedly assent to their subjection in order to survive, and because otherwise the beneficial ends of parenthood, which include the rearing, socializing, and civic education of offspring, cannot be attained.

In order to prevent this (subjection to unnecessary pain), and by improving accepted practice, it was interesting to investigate whether children felt pain at the time of infiltration anaesthesia following the initial topical anaesthesia.

His popularity among his people fell when he was not able to prevent their subjection to taxation by the BSAC or the loss of parts of western Barotseland to Portuguese Angola in 1905.

In both cases, Stirner draws the lesson that the individual must move from social to egoistic relationships in order to escape subjection.