Definition of submergence | Bee Dictionary of English

The fishermen of the Maldives once referred to their Indian Ocean archipelago as the "land of emergence and submergence.
It is mixed and layered, skin upon slow skin of pigment and oil, bearing a history of growth, submergence and mellowing, containing light the way a sheet of marble stores the heat .
He helped found the right-wing Phalange Party in 1936 to protect the interests of Maronite Christians from submergence by Islam and a year later assumed its leadership; he .

Greenspan, Bernanke and a Return to Normalcy
America’s present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums, but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration; not agitation, but adjustment; not surgery, but serenity; not the dramatic, but the dispassionate; not experiment, but equipoise; not submergence in internationality, but sustainment in triumphant nationality.President Warren Harding 1920 One of the themes that I hit in my 2010 ...
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Vladimir Putin in guardian.co.uk
The submergence is going excellently, and the scenery in the porthole is magnificent,Putin told reporters with composure via a "hydrophone" as the tiny craft descended 1.4km to the deepest point in the southern curve of the lake.
James Cameron in Globe and Mail
The allegations are absurd and part of a conspiracy to divert the nation's attention from imminent submergence and displacement in the Narmada Valley and people's resistance to eviction of farmers and tribals in many states in the name of setting... Medha Patkar http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medha_Patkar&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGIBA0J1b4HT89YH_ixrrt9qWZTFQ Hindu http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/002200607082066.htm&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGdNqmgHy8GXn8omtHkJB_o401kYw Jul 8, 2006 95877 127319 submergence This had nothing to do with Hollywood. For 22 years, I've been working with a number, if not most, of the top people in the very small deep submergence community," Mr. Cameron said at the All Things Digital conference on Wednesday in California.