Independence is eroded by subjecting residents to humiliating and degrading procedures. The officers retaliated, subjecting him to beatings and other punishments. Gasification is the process of subjecting a feedstock to chemical reactions that produce gas. In moral philosophy, autonomy refers to subjecting oneself to objective moral law. Barry retaliates by subjecting Bullingdon to systematic physical abuse. Claudia Octavia murdered, after subjecting her to torture and imprisonment. This tactic has the advantage of potentially subjecting multiple computers to surveillance. Cold stratification is the process of subjecting seeds to both cold and moist conditions. Subjecting a population to isolation leads to inbreeding depression. Additionally, researchers are subjecting taxonomic hypotheses to more rigorous cladistic analyses of early mammal fossils. Spurious frequencies are also generated by subjecting the crystal to vibration. CITES works by subjecting international trade in specimens of selected species to certain controls. Debate has ensued over the advisability of subjecting workers' retirement money to market risks. Caulfield subjecting himself to various treatments of doubtful efficacy. They believed in rapid industrialization through labor and in subjecting nature to human will.