Sentence examples for own subjugation from inspiring English sources

That could happen only if women were to forsake equality and subjugate men, and that would be as grave a travesty as their own subjugation once was.

Ruhl concentrates on Eurydice's experience, not Orpheus's: there is no demented wandering, no boy's own subjugation of the guards, no ghoulish dismemberment by Thracian maenads.

Looking back on her life in middle age, Harriett finally realises how she has been complicit in her own subjugation and succumbs to despair: The years passed.

In Spike Lee's film "Bamboozled," I take Mr. Lee's main point to be that minorities regularly engage in their own subjugation.

The episode becomes a pretext for erotica, and as the woman is complicit in her own subjugation, the dirt of sexual oppression is whitewashed away.

This leads to the inevitable question: Is the ubiquitous use of the word "vagina" by women yet another insidious male plot unconsciously abetted by maso­chistic women in their own subjugation?

In the book, she discusses the idea that the policing of mothers is patriarchal and political, but concludes that "in this area at least, we women are the primary authors of our own subjugation".

The triumph of these little divs over our noble red British squirrel had become a searing metaphor for my own subjugation at the hands of the anti-fuck Yanks.

This seems to be the initial turn-off when western feminism comes to the rescue, the blanket assumption that the victim has no volition nor can respond to adversity with the commensurate degree of outrage because she is so accustomed and desensitised to her own subjugation.

It is unclear what choice Palestinians have beyond active resistance and meekly accepting permanent subjugation in their own land.

With a gravity appropriate to the occasion, Bush surveyed everything from Saddam's genocide in the Kurdish north to his relentless ambition to build nuclear weapons and dominate the region, by employing the same level of terror that keeps his own citizens in a state of constant subjugation.