Submission

//səbˈmɪʃən//

"Submission" in a Sentence (14 examples)

We have the alternative of death and submission.

He was beaten into submission.

Please include a self-addressed, stamped envelope with your submission.

Friday's behaviour shows his total submission and devotion to Robinson, because the Englishman saved him from the cannibals.

Nothing appears more surprising to those, who consider human affairs with a philosophical eye, than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few; and the implicit submission, with which men resign their own sentiments and passions to those of their rulers.

Patriotism in its simple, clear and plain meaning is nothing other to rulers than an instrument for achieving their power-hungry and self-serving goals. To those who are subjected to them, it is a denial of human dignity, reason, and conscience, as well as a slavish submission of themselves to those who are in power.

Your submission is great! Congratulations!

In the end, her glare cowed him into submission.

The submission was flagged automatically.

Lady Stair, a woman accustomed to universal submission, for even her husband did not dare to contradict her, treated this objection as a trifle, and insisted upon her daughter yielding her consent to marry the new suitor, David Dunbar, son and heir to David Dunbar of Baldoon, in Wigtonshire.

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Any submissions received after Friday will have marks deducted for lateness.

In his submission to the UN, [Christof] Heyns points to the experience of drones. Unmanned aerial vehicles were intended initially only for surveillance, and their use for offensive purposes was prohibited, yet once strategists realised their perceived advantages as a means of carrying out targeted killings, all objections were swept out of the way.

He used overhooks to block the punches, but he didn't seem to know any submissions off the overhooks.

The commander would have to communicate to his operational planners his intent — how he wanted to fight the battle and what missions and submissions were vital to achieving what the corps order had defined as missions for the division.

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