Does this new system subsume the old one?. From LearnThat.org.
"subsume" the least of individual things except in so far as the material element which is its body would surround all living things and bring them into contact with one another. From Wordnik.com. [The Complex Vision] Reference
What Newton did, in effect, was to subsume these individual. From Wordnik.com. [William Whewell] Reference
The purpose of Common Purposes is to subsume Great Britain in Europe. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Modern ethnology, indeed, tends to subsume cult under way-of-living, as. From Wordnik.com. [The Unity of Civilization] Reference
Frist wasn't about to subsume his own views in a White House white paper. From Wordnik.com. [Political Lives: New Senate Boss: A Fish, Er, Frist, Out Of Water?] Reference
What can subsume that concern is an appreciation for the realm of mystery. From Wordnik.com. [Suzanne Taylor: A Call For Attention] Reference
That I'm to subsume myself in you so deeply that even your desires become my own?. From Wordnik.com. [Flux Tales of Human Futures]
So completely did his office subsume him that Charliss did not even know his name. From Wordnik.com. [Storm Breaking]
COLBERT: All fascism does is say that we should subsume our own identity to the will. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 14, 2008] Reference
Similarly the actions of animal life depend upon and subsume the laws of organic matter. From Wordnik.com. [On the Genesis of Species] Reference
The hillary candidate and campaign are like Microsoft ... they don't innovate, they subsume. From Wordnik.com. [Elizabeth Edwards: Hillary Took John's Health Plan] Reference
He was a fascinating figure within the rat pack, because he had to subsume his talents often. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 18, 2003] Reference
What America rightly resisted in the autumn of 2001 is threatening to subsume the autumn of 2010. From Wordnik.com. [Let Reformation Begin at Ground Zero] Reference
Now, not even the most statesmanlike compromise could subsume these under our shared, human goal. From Wordnik.com. [In Quest of Happiness] Reference
It's their ability to subsume the movement into a common whole and that's made them very powerful. From Wordnik.com. [Christian Avard: The Kos And The System: "Blogfather" Markos Moulitsas On Digital-Era Activism And His New Book] Reference
"The problem isn't so much the term," he says, "but the extended usage of it to subsume other things.". From Wordnik.com. [The Internet Industry Is on a Cloud -- Whatever That May Mean] Reference
She added that those who stay are often forced to subsume their race, gender or nationality to blend in. From Wordnik.com. [Venkat Srinivasan: A Voice in Diversity] Reference
He said the pact was good for both sides and was not a matter of China seeking to subsume Taiwan economically. From Wordnik.com. [China, Taiwan sign trade pact] Reference
His writing could subsume the DNA of any language, any form it encountered, while remaining completely his own. From Wordnik.com. [Lapham's Quarterly: David Foster Wallace, R.I.P.] Reference
Israel doesn't what to subsume them into Greater Israel because they don't want to increase their Arab population. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
But as this economic tsunami threatens to subsume all other issues it is high time we focus where it really matters. From Wordnik.com. [Economics Trumps] Reference
Or does the Arts Council have a Goebbels-like agenda to subsume politics under aesthetics and/or the other way about. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
The power of commerce to subsume art in Chicago is far weaker than it is in some other American and world art centers. From Wordnik.com. [Paul Klein: Responses to Schism Article] Reference
Reproductive health is not abortion, and mentioning the word does not subsume every other part of reproductive health. From Wordnik.com. [Tamar Abrams: Women Deliver Promises Hope Around the World] Reference
Sunday's "Agenda" programme, Tony Stirling and The Citizen editorial have attempted to subsume the question of MK under. From Wordnik.com. [PRIVATE ARMIES] Reference
The point is that just as we cannot subsume distribution under allocation, neither can we subsume scale under allocation. From Wordnik.com. [An Introduction to Ecological Economics~ Chapter 3] Reference
In the same way the actions of a self-conscious moral agent, such as man, depend upon and subsume the laws of animal life. From Wordnik.com. [On the Genesis of Species] Reference
Later recensions tended to subsume their predecessors by absorbing the essential content and reducing it to a secondary level. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
The latter think more holistically, see context and surroundings more than discrete objects, and subsume the individual to society. From Wordnik.com. [What’s Really Human?] Reference
Everything hinged on my willingness to subsume my selfish interests and sincerely put the company's mission and the interests of others first. From Wordnik.com. [Business Secrets Of The Trappists, Part 4] Reference
When science plays do fail to be good plays it's usually because the scientific ideas subsume the desires, conflicts, and fierce wants of the people. From Wordnik.com. [Lauren Gunderson: Eureka! Science Belongs On Stage] Reference
This new Directorate will subsume the activities of the Office of the Special Assistant to the President for Implementation of the Dayton Peace Accords. From Wordnik.com. [Statement By Press Secretary On Security Staff Realignment] Reference
DOBBS: Well, at the same time, though, the president is trying to subsume the war in Iraq and Afghanistan into the global war on terror, driving again fear. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 8, 2006] Reference
I was worried that my concept, cloning (a relatively 'high' concept), might subsume everything else, i.e. the more important stuff, I meant to do in the book. From Wordnik.com. [Steven Polansky: The Subject is Cloning] Reference
BLACK: They are either so committed to the relationship that they make it work at all costs, or, the man is able to subsume his ego and allow himself to take a secondary role. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 24, 2006] Reference
Devices like the Kindle, with its 167 dot-per-inch E Ink display, with type set in a serif font called Caecilia, can subsume consciousness in the same way a physical book does. From Wordnik.com. [The Future of Reading] Reference
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