Sentence examples for over its subject from inspiring English sources

The biggest problem with "Four Lovers," whose screenplay was written by Mr. Cordier and Julie Peyr, is the degree to which it glosses over its subject and characters.

Julian Schnabel's film "Before Night Falls" belongs to what might be called the life-is-but-a-dream school of biographical cinema in the way it hovers ethereally over its subject and conjures up fragments of his consciousness in brilliant, disconnected flashes.

It seemed to linger over its subject.

Though I'd decided to direct the film, which will open Friday after a one-and-a-half year delay caused by qualms over its subject matter, its conceptual liability remained: it was still another Shakespeare-set-in-high-school film.

But it has since emerged that although the book was submitted for the festival's consideration, it was rejected in September 2008 due to concerns over its subject matter and was never included in the programme.

Bubbles also cast a dark shadow over its subject, the artist's grandson, Willy James, who lived to become an admiral of the fleet, and was haunted to the end of his long life by his frilly collar and mop of golden curls.

An illegitimate government will fail to protect the rights to life, liberty, health and property of its subjects, and in the worst cases, such an illegitimate government will claim to be able to violate the rights of its subjects, that is it will claim to have despotic power over its subjects.

First, there is the obvious danger of an autocratic or despotic government assuming arbitrary powers over its subjects; this concern, and republican remedies for it, will be discussed below.

Nonetheless, it seems that the North Korean government has scored an important victory in its long struggle to maintain control over its subjects.

To the contrary, it is in the very nature of the state to extend its control over its subjects, limiting and finally eliminating whatever liberty they once had to control their own lives.

Plato's dialogue Crito is the origin of several enduring ideas in the philosophy of law, such as that the law by nature claims authority over its subjects and that the very relationship between law and its subjects somehow gives rise to an obligation of obedience.