Sentence examples for former subjugation from inspiring English sources

Others recall the area's former subjugation by outsiders; one blogger detected "the stench of British policies" in the unrest.

The other matter of subjugation — that is, slavery — went unmentioned on Saturday.

One is subjugation, the other self-regulation.

It does not require vast armies, or the continued subjugation of other peoples.

The claim that Israel is the incarnation and defender of Jewish values is contradicted by its treatment of an Arab population that has now lived for over two generations under Israel's military subjugation - treatment that Moshe Arens, a former Likud Defense and Foreign Minister, has warned is turning that population into a permanent underclass of "carriers of water and hewers of wood".

But Armenians are also painfully aware that their nation continues to be one of the poorest in the former Soviet Union -- and many believe this reflects Russia's long subjugation of their country.

After Bruce's death in 1329, Edward III of England determined to renew the attempted subjugation of Scotland and supported the claim of Edward Balliol, son of the former King John Balliol, over that of Bruce's young son David II.

Faced with the option of subjugation to or combat with the nearby Mongol horde, many communities chose the former, including some Christian realms.

In play is a confusion of carnal and spiritual desires, the former trying to do the work of the latter, since the latter, spiritual life, is stifled and in subjugation.

According to Goldfield, the war reduced the North to a sort of postorgiastic exhaustion, leaving former slaves at the mercy of terrorist organizations like the Ku Klux Klan in a South determined to return them to subjugation.

As you rightly point out, however, Britain seems unable to reflect on the foundations of its colonial supremacy – subjugation, oppression and discrimination – while Germany appears to have accepted its history, by holding exhibitions and negotiating with its former colonies.