subject someone/something to something

Examples of subjecting

subjecting

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Subjecting "force" and "attraction" to rigorous mathematical treatment does not entail that "force" and "attraction" are transformed into pure mathematical concepts without any physical meaning.
The possible contribution of a composting inoculum on decomposition and nutrient content was evaluated by subjecting the mixtures to inoculation.
This is the condescension we know and hate, an act that appeals to the other for approval even while subjecting the other to disdain.
This is not ideal for long-term experiments because the chamber must be replenished with air periodically, subjecting the seeds to abrupt changes in oxygen concentration.
This is sufficient, without subjecting a witness to an unlimited power of a legislative committee or a single branch of a legislative body.
Nationalists and totalitarianists alike used positive liberty when they claimed to liberate people by subjecting them to larger groups or principles.
Suppose she were to propose as a form of independent justification subjecting her beliefs to a test of coherence or cogency.
One virtue of subjecting any common axiom to empirical tests is that it can help reveal hidden ambiguities in its logic.
In this paper we have tested this hypothesis by subjecting primed seed to such induction treatments.
The effect of variation in length of the dry period was simulated by subjecting part of the seedlings to a water treatment.
The best fit to the data was obtained by subjecting the weight of the animals to a log10 transformation.
Subjecting a patient to ineffective examinations and treatments carries the risk that the patient's back problem can develop into a chronic, lifelong disorder.
Data were assessed for the degree to which the data fit multivariate normal distributions both before and after subjecting them to data transformations.
Subjecting this model to a "visual measurement" yields a new topographic input image similar to the previous one, only with the patterns altered slightly.
To prepare our sample, we reduced the levels of mitochondrial contamination by repeatedly subjecting myelin membranes osmotic shocks and centrifugation.
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