(v. t.) To set free from the power of another; to liberate; as: (a) To set free, as a minor from a parent; as, a father may emancipate a child. (b) To set free from bondage; to give freedom to; to manumit; as, to emancipate a slave, or a country.
(v. t.) To free from any controlling influence, especially from anything which exerts undue or evil influence; as, to emancipate one from prejudices or error.
(a.) Set at liberty.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the course of their existence, they came to redefine the issue of pedophilia as one of youth emancipation.
(2) The Great war was also a turning point in the history of female emancipation.
(3) The emancipation of children, the anxieties sometimes caused by the age of the parents, the lack of interest which society has in the 50 years old woman, but which it very readily takes in the old woman, conjugal lassitude, the lack of comprehension of those around her, very often bring such women to the doctor, who should know not only how to palliate the oestrogen deficiency, and the organic disorders, but also show evidence of a certain psychological understanding.
(4) And yet here I am today, a sober, emancipated, successful and happy woman.
(5) St Vincent's population history, first as a slave society, then, after Emancipation, as a migration-oriented society, has strongly influenced cultural attitudes towards sexuality and fertility.
(6) In 1963, almost 200 years after those words were set to paper, a full century after a great war was fought and emancipation proclaimed, that promise -- those truths -- remained unmet.
(7) Relations with the former secretary of state soured over budget issues and the Ofsted chief’s reluctance to share the ideological frenzy in Mr Gove’s entourage that treated the emancipation of schools from local authority control as an end in itself.
(8) After failing to get elected in 2005, she was made a peer in 2007, and became a Tory role model for emancipated modern Muslim womanhood.
(9) Three years later he finally severed his ties with the label, instead forming his own New Power Generation label for the purposes of releasing the triple CD Emancipation .
(10) Emma Goldman: A Documentary History of the American Years, Volume One (2003) and Volume Two (2005) The anarchist Emma Goldman was a woman of many causes – free speech, women’s emancipation, birth control and workers’ rights.
(11) The “Brexit” brigade tends to present rupture from Brussels as a clean break; the final step in a long journey of emancipation.
(12) He told me sadly of two youths who had said they did not go to the theatre because: “That’s not for us, it’s for the nobs.” The Labour party and the unions had emancipated the working class economically, but what had they done to show the worker that he ought to take his share of the nation’s cultural life, that everyone was a “nob” in the theatre?
(13) She did not hesitate to treat Hefner's emancipation claims as bunk.
(14) It is tempting to imagine these stories sum up what Iceland is all about: Iceland bailed out the people and jailed the bankers, Icelandic women are the Valkyries of gender equality, marching stealthily toward the goal of total emancipation.
(15) Gradually, I realised that since the 19th century, the labour movement had awakened interest in what earlier generations of workers had done and thought, and campaigns for women’s suffrage had resulted in both chronicles of emancipation and research into the lives of poor women.
(16) There the aristocratic owners, Lord and Lady Mount Temple, assembled an eclectic crowd of Pre-Raphalites, spiritualist mediums and emancipated slaves – thereby confirming to Marx and Engels' surprisingly modern-sounding critique of conservative or bourgeois socialism as "philanthropists, humanitarians, improvers of the condition of the working class, organisers of charity, members of societies for the prevention of cruelty to animals, temperance fanatics, hole-and-corner reformers … desirous of redressing social grievances in order to secure the continued existence of bourgeois society".
(17) He points out also "the phobia of menopause", the increasing fear of old age in a "youth culture", in spite of progress of woman emancipation, social liberation following biological liberation (birth control, decrease of child mortality, etc).
(18) Given this, it's up to Europeans to turn their desire for emancipation from Russian gas into a demand for an accelerated transition to renewables.
(19) There was, of course, that business in the 90s when he went to war with Warner Bros, changing his name to an unpronounceable symbol and marking his eventual exit from the label with a triple CD pointedly titled Emancipation.
(20) Rather they worked within a universalist moral framework that stressed freedom and emancipation for all humanity.
Undue
Definition:
(a.) Not due; not yet owing; as, an undue debt, note, or bond.
(a.) Not right; not lawful or legal; improper; as, an undue proceeding.
(a.) Not agreeable to a rule or standard, or to duty; disproportioned; excessive; immoderate; inordinate; as, an undue attachment to forms; an undue rigor in the execution of law.
Example Sentences:
(1) Since doctors are generally accepted as experts on health matters, their apparent undue pessimism about cancer prognosis is unfortunate.
(2) It nevertheless remains unclear as to how much counseling must be done by pediatricians and at what intensity, so as to avoid undue harm.
(3) All of the hardware complications were managed without undue difficulty, and although they were a source of consternation to the surgeon, they did not affect the patients adversely.
(4) To feel like a useful human being without any stigma attached, without undue fears and pressures but with a sense of being needed and wanted, that is what life is all about.
(5) A leaked cabinet committee memo in 2010 showed coalition ministers were advised on coming into government that it was wrong "to regard radicalisation in this country as a linear 'conveyor belt' moving from grievance, through radicalisation, to violence … This thesis seems to both misread the radicalisation process and to give undue weight to ideological factors".
(6) The causes of barotrauma were: 1) Undue length of the tube pressed by machine's wheel which connect the ventilator to the anesthesia machine.
(7) Civil libertarians have long expressed alarm that the only judicial body charged with protecting Americans from undue, intrusive federal surveillance so frequently endorses the government's requests.
(8) The warming is expected to continue without undue problems for 30 years but beyond 2050 the effects could be dramatic with staple crops hit.
(9) Our observations indicated that the coronary reserve capacity was very important for ventricular pacing, and suggested that an undue increment of the pacing rate not only might be meaningless but also might induce ischemic angina.
(10) In a letter to investors , CtW said: "The sudden concentration of ownership in a single individual marks a significant shift in Walgreen's governance structure, raising questions about whether Pessina could have undue influence.
(11) We’re also concerned about the undue corporate influence in the trade negotiating process.” In ways helping the progressives’ cause, some conservative and Tea Party groups, like American for Limited Government, also oppose fast track and TPP.
(12) Through improved radiation protection this therapy can be performed without undue exposure of the testes.
(13) In addition, the total population of children under the age of 16 living in a working class area exposed to undue amounts of lead was examined in an attempt to determine whether their mental development had been affected.
(14) Then I was seen as someone who, when she was in power, didn’t want anything to do with them.” She was portrayed as meddlesome and pushy, with an undue influence on both Hollande’s policies and his wardrobe.
(15) Although the complex inhibits tumor growth without undue initial toxocity, longer-term side effects limit the use of the compound.
(16) The culture is driven by exerting undue pressure on others to get things done.
(17) That many ministers are from the RSS is reality, but that does not mean [the organisation] has an undue influence on policy … We are simply following up on our electoral pledges to bring development, prosperity to all Indians and to fulfil all Indians’ aspirations,” said Nalin Kohli, a spokesman for the BJP.
(18) BT has lodged a complaint with Ofcom on the grounds that BSkyB is showing "undue discrimination" against it by refusing to air the campaign.
(19) "Health care personnel may not apply undue pressure of any sort on individuals who have opted for the extreme recourse of a hunger strike.
(20) In 1992, the supreme court’s decision in Planned Parenthood v Casey nominally upheld Roe v Wade, but it replaced Roe’s clear rules with a holding that abortion regulations, even in the first trimester of pregnancy, were unconstitutional only if they constituted an “undue burden”.