Sentence examples for its subjection from inspiring English sources

Meymaneh was the capital of a semiautonomous Uzbek khanate until its subjection by the emir of Afghanistan in 1868.

Repton's clients must have lifted their overlays again and again, imagining and reimagining his reordering of the landscape, its subjection to a single, dominant eye.

Moved by concern over a divided Christendom and influenced by 18th-century rationalism, Hontheim urged the limitation of papal power and its subjection to the bishops (the pope's equals, among whom he is first) and to general councils.

Some 12 years later, when Jayavarman was in his late 50s, that opportunity came as a result of a Cham invasion, which brought about the demise of Tribhuvanadityavarman, the sacking of Angkor, and its subjection to foreign rule.

By article 34 the state recognized the validity of Catholic marriage and its subjection to the provisions of canon law; nullity cases were therefore reserved to the ecclesiastical courts, and there could be no divorce.

Subjection and Subjectivity.

Meyers, Diana T. Subjection and Subjectivity.

The transformation of northern Mali into a sanctuary for terrorists and the subjection of its people to medieval cruelties are a threat to the entire West African region.

As is Orton's dreadful merriment: this production bullies its audience into hilarious subjection: some of them have to make puppies out of balloons; some have to distribute fish and chips; everyone has to sing along to the star of the evening, a squeeze-box soprano who throbs away making The Young Ones sound like the national anthem.

This result indicates the higher thermal stability of this polymer system compared with its analog obtained without subjection to a field.

In the course of Nick's travails — his subjection to televised character assassination, police interrogation, and street harassment — he speaks the movie's key line, with its Euripidean wink: "I'm so sick of being picked apart by women".