SUBMISSION in a Sentence

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Nothing suited his condition then better than the doctrines of passive submission embodied in the newly learned Christianity.

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 Meanings and Examples of SUBMISSION
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
submission
 n.  act of submitting; act of yielding to power or authority; surrender of the person and power to the control or government of another; obedience
Classic Sentence: (81 in 6 pages)
1  It is one thing to owe honour, respect, gratitude and assistance; another to require an absolute obedience and submission.
Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
2  In the North the feeling has several times forced itself into words, that Mr. Washington's counsels of submission overlooked certain elements of true manhood, and that his educational programme was unnecessarily narrow.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In III
3  Mr. Washington represents in Negro thought the old attitude of adjustment and submission; but adjustment at such a peculiar time as to make his programme unique.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In III
4  In other periods of intensified prejudice all the Negro's tendency to self-assertion has been called forth; at this period a policy of submission is advocated.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In III
5  In answer to this, it has been claimed that the Negro can survive only through submission.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In III
6  He insists on thrift and self-respect, but at the same time counsels a silent submission to civic inferiority such as is bound to sap the manhood of any race in the long run.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In III
7  Nothing suited his condition then better than the doctrines of passive submission embodied in the newly learned Christianity.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In X
8  They despise the submission and subserviency of the Southern Negroes, but offer no other means by which a poor and oppressed minority can exist side by side with its masters.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In X
9  Your sort, you gentry, can never get beyond refined submission or refined indignation, and that's no good.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
10  Now he remembered Denisov with his changed expression, his submission, and the whole hospital, with arms and legs torn off and its dirt and disease.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XXI
11  All she could see was that his former stern and determined expression had altered to one of timidity and submission.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER VIII
12  Simplicity is submission to the will of God; you cannot escape from Him.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER IX
13  Simplicity is submission to God.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XI
14  She did not think of applying submission and self-abnegation to her own life, for she was accustomed to seek other joys, but she understood and loved in another those previously incomprehensible virtues.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 15: CHAPTER III
15  That Chateaubriand, Madame de Stael, and others spoke certain words to one another only affected their mutual relations but does not account for the submission of millions.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 17: CHAPTER II
Example Sentence:
1  The emperor demanded total submission from his subjects.
2  Happy are the families where the government of parents is the reign of affection, and obedience of the children the submission to love.
3  The army intends to take the city or simply starve it into submission.
4  I demand the submission of the signature to an expert.
5  And yet woman is coerced through submission to the Symbolic order to abandon feminine desire and a peculiarly feminine relation to origins.
6  Many diploma courses require the submission of a project.
7  Diploma and certificate courses do not normally require the submission of a dissertation.
8  Tomorrow is the last date for submission of entries for the competition.
9  She sat still, in submissive patience, her cheek pale with the working of a heart too big for that little body.
10  To say that religion is the opiate of the people is to condemn religion as a drug that keeps the people quiet and submissive to those in power.