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The Ukrainian army's "anti-terrorist operation", which also involves volunteer brigades and paramilitaries, has so far served more to radicalise the local population than to subdue it.
Media analyst Ethan Zuckerman said that the president is "understandably wary of discussing Boko Haram, as it reminds voters that the conflict has erupted under his management and that his government has been unable to subdue the terror group".
The MDC has also accused the police of a round-the-clock heavy deployment and surveillance by armed police at its Harvest House headquarters in Harare, describing it as "a clear sign of provocation intended to intimidate, instil fear and subdue any dissension".
After tapping on the car window and asking her the time, he had forced his way into the vehicle, locked the doors and used violence to subdue her.
Gulliver is far stronger than his tiny captors; but by working together the Lilliputians subdue the giant.The bosses who will gather in Davos on January 25th-29th are more like Gulliver than they care to imagine.
Mr Lloyd Parry partly blames the prejudices of the Japanese police about the foreign women who work in the water trade for their failure for so long to catch a serial rapist who used chloroform and knockout drugs to subdue his victims and filmed himself raping them.
It is also unclear what Afghanistan's hard-pressed security forces could do about Nuristan, a place so tough that NATO abandoned it in 2010 after failing to subdue it.But perhaps Afghanistan has tried playing its own double game.
Police and UN troops sent to subdue gunmen in one slum met fierce resistance, and a round-up of several militants, including a popular slum priest, only sparked more violence.Exactly who is behind it is unclear.
NURI AL-MALIKI, Iraq's battered but durable prime minister, is starting to surprise his many critics, who have generally damned him as dull, indecisive, sectarian and unpopular even among his own Shia Arabs.In the past month he has been ridiculed for the Iraqi armed forces' dismal failure to subdue the Shia militias loyal to a firebrand cleric, Muqtada al-Sadr, in Basra, the main port city.
The paper suggests a world resentful of China's emergence as a global power, and trying to thwart it: "Suspicion about China, interference and countering moves against China from the outside are on the increase".The white paper claims "the armed forces resolutely subdue all subversive and sabotage activities by hostile forces".
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The primary grammatical function of "subdue" is as a transitive verb . It signifies the action of bringing someone or something under control, often through force or effort. Ludwig's examples demonstrate this usage in various contexts, from military operations to emotional regulation.
Expression frequency: Very common
