Sentence examples for attempt to subdue from inspiring English sources

The second officer places a knee on Sterling's chest as they attempt to subdue him.

In 1567 the Spanish established a mission there as part of a futile attempt to subdue the Tequesta.

Bagram Air Base, built by the Soviet Union in its doomed attempt to subdue the Afghans in the 1980s, is ringed by several layers of defenses.

The chimpanzee, Travis, was stabbed by his owner in a desperate attempt to subdue him, but it was a gunshot from a police officer that ultimately killed him.

Uber is to leave the Bop It game in the back of its cars, in an attempt to subdue its drunken, aggressive passengers.

That is the Yankees' new theory on Contreras, who will start Friday at Yankee Stadium in his latest attempt to subdue the Red Sox.

As Jackson and other protesters marched through Ferguson, the police attempted to subdue them with rubber bullets and tear gas.

The British handling of Iraq after the invasion, including its attempts to subdue Basra, is regarded as important but secondary.

After rendering the Kazan Horde on his eastern flank temporarily impotent by a series of campaigns (1467 69), Ivan attempted to subdue Novgorod and its huge northern empire.

Moogalian, who is still in the hospital, will receive it later, along with an unnamed French banker who also attempted to subdue the gunman.

An Army commander, who had attempted to subdue the city in 2003, wrote in a memoir, "Nowhere did the battle seem more hopeless than in Samarra.