Here and there, as we better understand these laws, we have claimed small dominions where we have been able to regulate some outcomes: We are cleaning up our water, air, and food supplies for example, and we are making progress in medicine.
In 546 Rome was sacked and emptied of inhabitants by the Gothic king Totila, and when the attempt of Emperor Justinian I to reconquer and hold Italy failed, the papacy filled the administrative vacuum and shortly thereafter became the sovereign power of a small Italian dominion virtually independent of the Eastern Empire.
Schools and hospitals were established all over the (still small) Greek dominion; but the negative feelings of the people were rather neglecting this side of his reign.
And in a small platinum-rich dominion near Johannesburg, the king of the Bafokeng people, Leruo Tshekedi Molotlegi, has built a $72 million private school for 800 children, most of whom will be local boys and girls on scholarship.
The key is that little word "dominion".
Past city administrations have shown little faith that, if nurtured, bicycling could grow into a major transportation alternative; and they have been loath to force motorists to cede even a small part of their dominion over our streetscape.
But therein lies at least a hint to the magic in the Springsteen mystery: the muscular rise to the small occasion, taking forceful dominion over your poky circumstance and championing your own responses to what would otherwise seem inevitable.
After a few smaller acquisitions, Toronto-Dominion made an aggressive push into the United States in the middle of the financial crisis.
During the Islamic centuries (post-7th century), poetry came to occupy a central place within the courts of the caliph and of the sultans, emirs, governors, and other potentates who ruled over the various regions of the Islamic world following its breakup into smaller, more local dominions.
But small changes are likely, and Dominion has already made one: it has wired the plant's electronic earthquake sensors to a battery.
