Her explorer husband resisted all her attempts at domestication. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
MAVUSO MBHEKISENI: People were educated, through what we call domestication, that they should love one party, because that party gave them-will give them freedom. From Wordnik.com. [Democracy Now!] Reference
Hogs are a funny animal years of domestication is thrwn out the window once they go wild; teeth (tusks), and thick body hair begins to grow again. From Wordnik.com. [hog hunting good or bad for us?] Reference
Steampunk is also, it suddenly occurs to me, a kind of domestication of technological unease, analogous to the Victorian domestication of the fairy tale. From Wordnik.com. [Kenneth Hite's Journal] Reference
The great divide between humans and the rest of the earth's inhabitants began about 11,000 years ago in the Middle East with the so-called "domestication" of animals. From Wordnik.com. [Against The Current] Reference
Ravenna during the first week of his "domestication" in the Palazzo. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 4] Reference
This is part of the "domestication" they feel is necessary for the "brave new world order". From Wordnik.com. [Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com] Reference
The move to more legitimacy can also be seen as a kind of "domestication" of games; a hemming-in of their wildness and often unruly nature. From Wordnik.com. [Gamasutra Feature Articles] Reference
'domestication' of such elements to provide novel cellular and developmental functions. From Wordnik.com. [BioMed Central - Latest articles] Reference
The domestication of humans has led to similar effects. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Driver changed my life...] Reference
Exceptional causes of variation under domestication. From Wordnik.com. [On the Genesis of Species] Reference
Also, it is a "map" to the history of sheep domestication. From Wordnik.com. [1 Microcattle] Reference
The domestication of the horse came much later than that of the cow. From Wordnik.com. [Early European History] Reference
Table of Contents: Article named "Buffalo, the domestication of" page. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American, Volume 40, No. 13, March 29, 1879 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures] Reference
Now, there are some capable of domestication, while others are irreclaimable. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost Hunter A Tale of Early Times] Reference
It is susceptible of domestication, and is remarkable for its cleanly habits. From Wordnik.com. [Frank and Fanny] Reference
The Chub, a common tenant of our ponds, is also a good subject for domestication. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861] Reference
Diseases in animals greatly increase under the artificial conditions of domestication. From Wordnik.com. [Disease and Its Causes] Reference
Also, Andrew, you may want to check out some sweet articles on domestication and evolution. From Wordnik.com. [Wired Top Stories] Reference
There is a disease to which the horse, from his state of domestication, is frequently subject. From Wordnik.com. [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference
Ten years after his domestication in the family of Dr. Gilman he made the following memorandum. From Wordnik.com. [The Opium Habit] Reference
The domestication of plants marked almost as wonderful an advance as the domestication of animals. From Wordnik.com. [Early European History] Reference
Wild species also vary, perhaps about as widely as those of domestication, though in different ways. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 33, July, 1860] Reference
The discussion on domestication of large animals relies on the studies by C.O. Sauer, H. von Wissmann. From Wordnik.com. [A History of China] Reference
Under the conditions of domestication, poultry are subject to a great variety of intestinal disorders. From Wordnik.com. [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference
No species of animals has learnt anything new even from man, except within the narrow sphere of domestication. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 31, May, 1860] Reference
The domestication of animals made possible an advance from the hunting and fishing stage to the pastoral stage. From Wordnik.com. [Early European History] Reference
Buffon considered the shepherd dog to be the least modified by domestication -- very erroneously, according to Dr. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844] Reference
Science has proven that the domestication of animals has resulted in a progressive erosion of their mental facilities. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Driver changed my life...] Reference
In the Middle East, an early center of domestication, pigs are not widely kept today because of religious dietary restrictions. From Wordnik.com. [1 Microcattle] Reference
Even among animals under conditions of domestication, instinct tends largely to be replaced by habitual or acquired modes of behavior. From Wordnik.com. [Human Traits and their Social Significance] Reference
Is it not probable that permanent domestication was rendered possible by the inevitable selection of spontaneous variations in this direction?. From Wordnik.com. [Are the Effects of Use and Disuse Inherited? An Examination of the View Held by Spencer and Darwin] Reference
(Both the chicken and some races of pig may also have a tropical Asian origin, but the exact sites of their earliest domestication is unclear.). From Wordnik.com. [1 Domesticated Banteng] Reference
Among the many accomplishments of ancient Egypt, the domestication of cats surely ranks as one of the most important -- at least to cat lovers. From Wordnik.com. [PREHISTORIC CAT LOVERS] Reference
With the passing of colthood, and the coming into effect of the evils of further domestication, the troubles to which the foot is open become more numerous. From Wordnik.com. [Diseases of the Horse's Foot] Reference
A wolf by domestication, for example, can never become a dog, nor the ourang-outang by the force of external circumstances be brought within the circle of the human species. From Wordnik.com. [An Expository Outline of the "Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation" With a Notice of the Author's "Explanations:" A Sequel to the Vestiges] Reference
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