Sentence examples for attempting to subdue from inspiring English sources
However, at the end of the 13th century, at the time England's King Edward I was attempting to subdue and conquer Scotland, the political turmoil was such that the power of the earls was reduced to that of those of England.
Juan Luis Cebrián, Grupo Prisa's chief and a former editor of El País, bristled at the government's decision, loudly comparing it to the handiwork of a banana republic and accusing the Zapatero administration of "attempting to subdue the media" through a "war against those who are independent".
In "Age of Anansi", self-satisfied barrister Dion Yeboah finds himself taken over by the African trickster spider-god Anansi and forced to participate in a contest between a pantheon of pranking deities, while in "Age of Gaia", a sadistic billionaire tycoon comes a cropper when he finds himself attempting to subdue the Earth goddess Gaia in the form of eco-journalist Lydia Laidlaw.
Bushatli was defeated and killed by the Montenegrins under Petar I, while attempting to subdue them in 1796.
The second officer places a knee on Sterling's chest as they attempt to subdue him.
As Jackson and other protesters marched through Ferguson, the police attempted to subdue them with rubber bullets and tear gas.
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.
Individual scenes are outstanding – the juggernaut stage fight in which Jonathan Harker and his friends attempt to subdue Dracula, or the lurching carriage ride in which three horse-masked dancers pound through a hellish roar of sound.
Lying along important trade routes connecting southern and eastern Asia to Europe and the Middle East, Afghanistan has long been a prize sought by empire builders, and for millennia great armies have attempted to subdue it, leaving traces of their efforts in great monuments now fallen to ruin.
