7 sentences with “submission”

The word Islam means "submission". Its central tenet is submission to the will of God as revealed to mankind by Muhammad.

The Assyrians held that their patron god, a god of war also called Ashur, demanded the submission of other peoples and their respective gods.

Most male intellectuals continued to insist on the desirability of female submission and, with a few major exceptions, most of the literature and philosophy of the period was written by men.

After the British left Boston, they slowly adopted a strategy to isolate New England from the rest of the colonies and force the insurgents there into submission, believing that doing so would end the conflict.

The Greek polis were, for the most part, terrified into submission, with only 6% of Greek cities joining the defensive coalition created by Athens and Sparta (incidentally, within that 6% were some of the most powerful poles in Greece).

Neither rebelliousness nor submission nor indifference are enriching or creative spaces. None of these attitudes gives students a positive role. Only if people are encouraged to feel that they are builders of the institution and that they can speak for themselves, will they develop their power in a positive way.

If the school does not encourage the creative participation of the pupils in relation to knowledge, the pupils will have only two options for success: submission or indifference. If they choose submission, they will uncritically follow everything they are taught. If they choose indifference, they will participate only on the basis of the need to pass their subjects. Those pupils whose resistance is greater will opt for the path of rebellion, which will not allow them to "defend themselves" in order to pass the subjects.