He can use the whole "it is a subjugation of women" language as much as he wants, but do we really think that Sarkozy is formulating policy to fight for the rights of Muslim women?
Any progress we make, to me, is fleeting because underneath it there's the smoldering coal about to break out in conflagration of a hatred and a subjugation of women and we're not paying attention to that, and it's smoldering away.
Or, as many in the anti-burqa camp would insist, a weapon of subjugation; a flexible mobile prison that cuts the wearer off from the rest of the world?
For politicians and those shaping the media to still be using the word represented a uniquely detached strain of snobbery, a semantic subjugation of millions of working class people.
Five years later, the victory Churchill had envisioned freed Europe from a Nazi subjugation that he had warned would bring "the abyss of a new Dark Age".
Ms. Abbagnato, like every other earth-smeared dancer on stage, performed with a sublime subjugation to the dance and its frightening, primordial emotions.
To many Israelis, the government's decision to attack Gaza seemed a clear subjugation of Corporal Shalit's safety to broader military goals.
The obvious consequence is more concentration of power and a further subjugation of the suburbs, which generates more and more unruly, unnamed dwellers.
A long sadomasochistic subjugation to a woman in Paris, identified only as H, and a subsequent relationship with the playwright Maria Irene Fornes, stormy though less chilling, help her to decide that, on the contrary, sex without love is worthless.
A belief that if a history of subjugation is tangled with a sanitised, whimsical idea of a time and place, then we should excuse all the viciousness that came with it.
A belief that if a history of subjugation is tangled with a sanitized, whimsical idea of a time and place, then we should excuse all the viciousness that came with it.
