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Example sentences for "assimilation"

Lexicographically close words:
assimilable; assimilate; assimilated; assimilates; assimilating; assimilative; assis; assise; assises; assist
  1. No race has ever defied assimilation so stubbornly and so successfully, and the modern tendency of individual Jews to repudiate what is one of their chief glories suggests an almost comic resolve to fight against the course of nature.

  2. The Magyar Chauvinists attempted the impossible--the assimilation by seven million people of twelve million others.

  3. The close assimilation of the newer elements of English life to the older; the gradual but unchecked identification in pursuits, habits, culture and tastes of the aristocracy of wealth with that of birth have been already mentioned.

  4. When the normal limits of size are reached, any further assimilation of nutriment ministers, not to the further growth of the organism, but to the formation of a new outgrowth, or bud.

  5. BO] It will, of course, be understood that a minute fragment of germ-plasm is capable of almost unlimited growth by assimilation of nutritive material, its properties remaining unchanged during such growth.

  6. The most remarkable event, however, in the recent history of cometary astronomy was its assimilation to that of meteors, which took unquestionable cosmical rank as a consequence of the Leonid tempest of November 1833.

  7. Thus in particular, he would have explained association by Contiguity as due to the circumstance of imperfect assimilation of the present to the past in consciousness.

  8. The direct biological result to be expected from the assimilation of such newcomers is the swamping of the best characteristics of the old American stock, and a diminution of the average of intelligence of the whole country.

  9. Herbert Spencer thought one of the strongest pieces of evidence in this category was to be found in the assimilation of foreigners in the United States.

  10. I do not believe that any of the people who come to us, speaking of races and nationalities as a whole, are degenerate, or so hardened that they are not capable of assimilation and transformation.

  11. Like all other bodily organs, this substance is renovated by the assimilation of nutrient materials derived from the blood.

  12. We certainly have acquired by the process of vaccination a manifold multiplication of power, and is there not also assimilation of new matter in {27} which this power resides?

  13. The less marked the contrasts, in general, the more rapid and complete the process of assimilation in the belt of borderland.

  14. For assimilation no limit can be forseen.

  15. And though their dominion has produced no assimilation between victor and vanquished, it has given political consolidation to a large area occupied by varied peoples.

  16. The assimilation tends to be ethnic as well as economic, because the severity of the climate excludes the white woman.

  17. The assimilation of culture, at least in a superficial sense, may be yet more rapid, especially where hard climatic conditions force the interloper to imitate the life of the native.

  18. So the process of assimilation advances, here by the simple elimination of weaker divergent types of men, there by amalgamation and absorption into the stock of the stronger.

  19. The process of assimilation is often ruthless in its method.

  20. The border regions of the world show the typical results of the historical movement--differentiation from the core or central group through assimilation to a new group which meets and blends with it along the frontier.

  21. This assimilation of blood and local culture is facilitated by the fact that the vast majority of historical movements are slow, a leisurely drift.

  22. Comparatively few agencies have been established for the Americanization and assimilation of Southern and Eastern European wage-earners.

  23. It is said that these contain seven millions of the Slavs, the Latins, and the Asiatics, and those whose racial background makes difficult the conception of a democracy and their assimilation into it.

  24. It is that point in the great process of assimilation when different and hitherto almost discordant elements tremble on the verge either of a harmonious blending for all time, or of flying off into eternal divergence and hostility.

  25. If the student should have any disorder, especially of digestion and assimilation of food, or elimination of waste, he should experiment upon himself along the lines laid out in this course.

  26. We must also consider that his digestion and assimilation of food, and elimination of waste are normal.

  27. If the sixtieth year can be turned with good digestion, normal assimilation and excretion, it is fair to assume that with reasonable care the century mark may be easily reached.

  28. If living, then it has its own memories and life-histories which must be cancelled and undone before the assimilation and the becoming imbued with new rhythms can be complete.

  29. In fact it is in assimilation of rhythm that what we see as assimilation consists.

  30. The professors think they are advancing healthy intellectual assimilation and digestion when they are in reality little better than cancer on the stomach.

  31. Assimilation and Persecution We cannot get rid of persecution; if we feel at all we must persecute something; the mere acts of feeding and growing are acts of persecution.

  32. There is no such complete assimilation as assimilation of rhythm.

  33. Is assimilation of foreigners taking place everywhere, or only in certain places?

  34. If the immigrant is evangelized, assimilation is easy and sure.

  35. Sidenote: How the Children Lead] This is a picture of progress in assimilation to be remembered, and the conclusion is admirably expressed.

  36. This is one way in which a true and enduring assimilation is begun.

  37. We have seen that assimilation is essential to national soundness and strength.

  38. Individuality is more marked in it than in many Slavonic races, and assimilation is comparatively rapid.

  39. But we have yet to realize that the most potential factor in assimilation is not legislation or education but evangelization.

  40. Where assimilation is slow, it is quite as likely to be the fault of the natives as of the immigrants, much more likely, indeed.

  41. The immigration problem presents nothing less than the assimilation of this vast mass of humanity.

  42. Our safety demands the assimilation of these strange populations, and the process of assimilation becomes slower and more difficult as the proportion of foreigners increases.

  43. Trumbull and Trumble are variants due to metathesis followed by assimilation (Chapter III), while Tremble is a very degenerate form.

  44. Assimilation is the tendency of a sound to imitate its neighbour.

  45. The process of assimilation and decline is taking place with far more rapidity in Hawaii.

  46. The problem of assimilation and Australianization is intricate and sometimes extremely unjust.

  47. You ought to assimilate every thing to every thing, in all cases where assimilation is possible: if your adversary assimilates in like manner, concealing the process from his hearers, you must convict and expose his proceedings.

  48. Spain was intent on the complete conquest of Sulu, the assimilation of all the Moro tribes, and the unification of government, religion, and civilization throughout the Philippine Archipelago.

  49. No sympathies bound the two races or the two organizations, and no foundation for unification and subsequent assimilation could be laid.

  50. This assimilation is very much like the paternal interest that holding companies in the good old Wall Street days felt for small and competitive concerns.

  51. This is why it will take a long time before complete assimilation is accomplished.

  52. Men like Botha and Smuts and their followers adapted themselves to assimilation but there remained the "bitter-end" element that rebelled in arms against the constituted authority in 1914 and had to be put down with merciless hand.

  53. It may be the result of some fever or exhausting illness; it may accompany dyspepsia, and is then due to imperfect digestion and assimilation of the food.

  54. Neither the assimilation of new material food, nor its use in tissue building can be effected without the presence of free oxygen and nuclein, or corpuscular elements of the blood.

  55. And of the three, incomparably the greater problem of assimilation is that presented by the last comers.

  56. These questions are intended to test her assimilation of the bibliographical help already given, and her ability to apply to a concrete case what she has gained.

  57. It is vain to hope for the assimilation of the alien as a result of conscious benevolent effort.


  58. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "assimilation" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    ablation; absorbent; absorption; accommodation; accordance; adaptation; addition; adjustment; admissibility; admission; adoption; adsorption; affiliation; agglomeration; aggregation; agreement; alchemy; alliance; amalgamation; anabolism; analogy; approach; approximation; articulation; aspiration; assimilation; association; assumption; attrition; bile; blend; blotter; cabal; cartel; change; check; closeness; coalition; combine; community; comparison; composition; comprehension; confederacy; confederation; conformity; congeries; conglomeration; conjugation; conjunction; consolidation; consonant; conspiracy; coordination; correspondence; depletion; digestion; diphthong; drain; eligibility; embodiment; erosion; exhaustion; expenditure; explosive; federation; finishing; fusion; glide; glottal; growth; guttural; harmonization; identification; identity; imitation; inclusion; incorporation; infiltration; ingestion; integration; junction; junta; labial; lapse; lateral; league; likeness; liquid; liver; marriage; membership; merger; metabolism; metaphor; modification; mute; nasal; nationalization; naturalization; nearness; openness; orientation; osmosis; package; palatal; papers; parallelism; parity; participation; passage; peak; percolation; pharyngeal; phone; progress; reception; recognition; reconciliation; reduction; regulation; resemblance; resolution; reversal; saliva; sameness; seepage; semblance; shift; simile; similitude; simulation; solidification; sonant; sonority; sponge; sponging; squaring; stop; surd; switch; syllable; syncretism; synthesis; timing; tolerance; transformation; transit; transition; unification; union; vocable; voice; vowel; waste; wedding; whole