What is "subjecting"

Usage examples of "subjecting".

They have lately become the majority in the confederated diet, and have passed a vote for subjecting their army to a commission independent of the king, and propose a perpetual diet in which case he will be a perpetual cypher.

But if the Constitution enjoins on a particular officer to be always engaged in a particular set of duties imposed on him, does not this supersede the general law, subjecting him to minor duties inconsistent with these?

I concur entirely with you in opposition to Purists, who would destroy all strength and beauty of style, by subjecting it to a rigorous compliance with their rules.

In the structure of our legislatures, we think experience has proved the benefit of subjecting questions to two separate bodies of deliberants.

And while I realize that you are anxious to study the joining process without subjecting our artifacts to damage, to closely observe a joining between children without causing mental distress in the parents concerned, followed by an involuntary adult joining, would be impossible.

He had the taped insight which made him in effect another Hudlar, and he wanted to tell how truly sorry he was for subjecting it to the trauma of this highly complex and professionally demanding operation which would give it so many more years of mental suffering.

But this would mean subjecting the two FSOJs to lengthy gestation periods in a highly artificial life-support system, which might have long-term ill effects on the new embryos, and would simply mean deferring the decision.

Members believed that they would attain divinity when they had proved their worthiness by subjecting themselves to the sort of punishments Jesus had endured.

I knew that was what 1 could become as a Dark Lord, yet I could not bring myself to even dream of pulling Fiddleback's people together and again subjecting them to the tortures they had endured while part of him.

Let us use milder measures, and we shall preserve his friendship, without subjecting you to any serious evil.

She believed also that the Marquis would do this, if provoked, yet she thought, upon such an occasion, La Motte might find some way of appeasing the Marquis, without subjecting himself to dishonour.

Leaning his broad shoulders against one of the decorated pillars, and holding his arms across his chest, he watched her circle round the room, and very soon realized that her partner (whom he suspected of being slightly foxed) was subjecting her to a form of gallantry which was extremely unwelcome.

To which he had replied, after subjecting the question to consideration, that although his clothes were naturally of paramount importance, he also cared for his horses.

His lordship had not forgotten his promise to take Jessamy with him, when he drove his new team of grays to Richmond—or, rather, it had been recalled to his mind by Curry, his head-groom, who had formed a very good opinion of Jessamy—and he called in Upper Wimpole Street one morning to pick the boy up: thus subjecting him to a severe struggle with his conscience.

There can be little doubt that we are subjecting at least some of them to cognitive overstimulation.