At a council, it is said, Russian naval and military authorities concluded that Russia alone could not successfully combat Japan, which, however, might 72 be coerced if Russia coöperated with France.
— from The Russo-Japanese Conflict: Its Causes and Issues by Kan'ichi Asakawa

In order to secure the results of the work in schools and homes, prompt action is taken in the establishment of preaching missions and churches, thus requiring a constant advance.
— from The American Missionary — Volume 41, No. 1, January, 1887 by Various

As he grows, the external factors, social experiences, climate, accidents, and disease modify and condition the reactions and complexity of the endocrine system.
— from The Glands Regulating Personality A Study of the Glands of Internal Secretion in Relation to the Types of Human Nature by Louis Berman

Thrown into the world without their consent, provided with a temperament of which they are not masters, animated by passions and desires inherent in their nature, exposed to snares which they have not power to escape, hurried away by events which they could not foresee or prevent, unhappy mortals are compelled to run a career, which may lead them to punishments horrible in duration and violence.
— from Good Sense by Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d'