Supersession Sentence Examples

The same method is finding increased favour in Great Britain, to the supersession of the old hot-water footwarmers.

These advantages led to the gradual supersession of the single-wire system until at the present day the all-metallic system is employed almost universally.

The later stages represent not the spontaneous development of the genuine Roman religion, but its alteration and supersession by new cults and ideas introduced from foreign sources.

It was the capital of the island till its supersession by Valletta in 1570.

He considered that he had not been properly supported in America, and was embittered both by the supersession of himself and his brother as peace commissioners, and by attacks made on him by the ministerial writers in the press.

In Alexandria an insurrection broke out over the supersession of the patriarch Dioscurus by the orthodox Proterius, who was killed during the struggle.

So also did the supersession of Richard of York by Edmund Beaufort, duke of Somerset, in the French command.

The services were at the same time simplified and shortened, and the use of the whole Psalter every week (which had become a mere theory in the Roman Breviary, owing to its frequent supersession by saints' day services) was made a reality.

But the supersession of the law, which was bound up with the regime of sin and death, does not mean the relaxation of the moral bond.

The patricians naturally resented their supersession and nearly every unpopular measure was attributed to the influence of "the foul-mouthed Dutch sorceress who hath bewitched the king."

The supersession of the Celtic Cornish by English, and of the Slavonic Old-Prussian by German, are but examples of a process which has for untold ages been supplanting native dialects, whose very names have mostly disappeared.

But though a Prussian intrigue was set up for the supersession of Bernstorff by Moltke, the latter, convinced that Bernstorff was the right man in the right place, supported him with unswerving loyalty.

Any deprivation or supersession of the count might impoverish, dispossess or ruin the vassals of the entire county; so that all, vassals or officials, small and great, feeling their danger, united their efforts, and lent each other mutual assistance against the permanent menace of an overweening monarchy.

Everyday life - because of its increasing triviality (work / sleep / consume / repeat / commute) is in need of supersession.

The gradual supersession of the old dialects by the Koine the common speech of the Greeks, a modification of the Attic idiom coloured by Ionic, was one obvious sign of the new order of things (see Greek Language).

The goal, communism, the overthrow and supersession of capitalism, also seemed something new, seemed to be a change of circumstances.

The Hegelian ' grand narrative ' would culminate in the supersession of all mediations separating people from each other.

What powers has a tribunal on an appeal when the Secretary of State has made a ' wrong ' revision or supersession decision?

Supersession procedure There is no time limit for a supersession application.

It seems to point to the supersession of a primitive local Cretan divinity by Demeter, and the adoption of agriculture by the inhabitants, bringing wealth in its train in the form of the fruits of the earth, both vegetable and mineral.

He presently acquiesced in the supersession of his own system, but continued his educational reports after his election to the Council of the Five Hundred.

It remains to observe the overthrow or supersession of the serpent in Christian lands.