29 examples of parasitisms in sentences

But latent in that move were all the terrible possibilities of the tiger, the alligator, the wolf and all the varieties of predaceous beast and plant, parasitism and slavery.

Throughout the living world, from ameba to man, parasitism and slavery together with their by-products, physical and spiritual degeneracy, appear as the after effects of the more vital individual's efforts to remain alive and free.

The origins of slavery may be seen in the parasitisms of the infectious diseases which kill man.

The change from parasitism to slavery was an inevitable step of creative intelligence.

For parasitism and likewise slavery infallibly entail the degradation of certain structures and an overgrowth of others by the law of use and disuse.

Because the development of slavery and parasitism in human society, the subjection of the weak to the strong, the dull and base to the clever and headstrong, set up a vicious cycle: the liberation of more energy for the making of more and more slaves and the propagation of slaves and slave qualities in a geometrically increasing proportion.

[Footnote 15: Is there not unconscious irony of their own parasitism here intended?]

We have indeed to work out an entire new system of relations between men and women, that will be free from servitude, aggression, provocation, or parasitism.

They pride themselves upon the parasitism which is their shame.

The one was parasitism; the other co-operation....

While parasitism is the principal cause of degeneration among animals, yet it is not the sole cause.

There are not a few instances of degeneration due simply to a quiescent life, unaccompanied by parasitism.

In modern times women's economic position has been undermined by the helpless dependence engendered amongst the well-to-do by "parasitism" resulting from nineteenth-century luxuryto quote the striking word of Olive Schreiner.

Now a new force is at work: the revolt of the modern woman against parasitism and dependence in all their forms; her demand for freedom to work and to choose her sphere of work, as well as for the right to dispose of what she gains.

Basically, therefore, the Roman world was divided first into Romans and non-Romans and second into masters and slaves, with a third category which consisted of an immense bureaucracy (including the military), a professional and technological group and a heavy burden of persistent parasitism.

Self directed labor gave place to slavery; participation in productive activity yielded to parasitism; productivity was subordinated to destructivity; the spirit of independence was replaced by the acceptance of increasing arbitrary individual authority.

The paralysis of parasitism replaces the will to power.

c. Intensified exploitation of mass labor side by side with the proliferation of parasitism throughout the body social, consisting of individuals and social sub-groups whose contribution in the form of goods produced and services rendered was less than the cost of maintaining the participants.

As parasitism increases and multiplies it proves to be a dead weight which eventually drags down any economy that tolerates it.

Parasitism may lead to social decay.

Village life, with its limited area and still more limited resources, has little economic surplus upon which parasitism can feed.

This personal parasitism of property owners is aggravated by provisions of property law under which the owners of property can give, sell or bequeath these sources of unearned income to family members, friends, associates.

Another and far less respectable form of social parasitism is the manipulation of social forces in a way that will bring the operator more than a fair share of social income with no equivalent in service.

Among the many oppositions of civilized association five are outstanding: the we-they relationship; rural versus urban life; subsistence versus acquisition and accumulation; hard work versus ease, luxury and parasitism; poverty versus wealth.

As civilizations were expanded by conquest and matured by struggle, they developed some type of forced labor to balance the increased parasitism of the masters and the growing numbers who were called upon to produce "services" rather than material goods.

29 examples of  parasitisms  in sentences