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Subjection

Subjection meaning

The act of bringing something under the control of something else. | The state of being subjected.

Example sentences (18)

Metanarratives and their role in the creation of social structures are some of the themes of Mokgosi’s latest body of work “Spaces of Subjection,” an ongoing body of work that he started in 2020.

Chief among these burdens is subjection to a full helping of punishment for criminal conduct.

A cursory reading of the Act reveals a subjection of the exercise to presidential discretion and judicial supervision to the exclusion of the NA.

The tentative conclusion would be that the mental effects of long-term subjection to invasive ubiquitous surveillance are non-existent.

And that the proofs that the times had come, would lie in the ceasing of the Mosaic worship, the desolation of Jerusalem and its Temple, and the subjection of the whole Jewish race to its enemies.

His book The Subjection of Women (1861, published 1869) is one of the earliest written on this subject by a male author.

If there were no fixed cult, no subjection to the Church, where should we be?

Next, from the word "help" were drawn inferences of authority/subjection distinctions between men and women.

On the other hand, Hanseatic merchants could also come from settlements without German town law —the premise for league membership was birth to German parents, subjection to German law, and a commercial education.

The council, in keeping with Agatho's letter, defined that Jesus Christ possessed two energies and two wills but that the human will was 'in subjection to his divine and all-powerful will'.

The end result was the diminishment of human nature and its subjection to death and corruption, an event commonly referred to as the "fall of man".

The exact nature of their subjection to the Spartans is not clear, but they seem to have served partly as a kind of military reserve, partly as skilled craftsmen and partly as agents of foreign trade.

The Hegelian subject may therefore be characterized either as "self-restoring sameness" or else as "reflection in otherness within itself" (ibid.) In short, a subject in the Hegelian sense is subjected to subjection.

The main evidence of the virtue attained by them lies in the voluntary subjection to them of the savage beasts among which they lived.

There is a single somewhat comprehensive version of the birth of Prometheus and several variant versions of his subjection to eternal suffering at the will of Zeus.

What wonder that his wild nature, untamed by years of subjection, should still revolt?

Working for wages was clearly regarded as subjection to the will of another, but at least debt servitude had been abolished at Athens (under the reforms of Solon at the start of the 6th century BC).

Yusuf ibn Tashfin had in the meantime brought the large area of what is now known as Morocco, Western Sahara and Mauretania into complete subjection.