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Because providing the energy, the money, the technology, the system for subduing everybody's privacy around the world – for destroying sanctuary in American freedom of speech – is wrong.
In their next match, however, El Salvador produced a sensation, subduing the vaunted Mexican attack before striking on the counter in the 81st minute through Ever Francisco Hernández.
Murray would seem to have found his compass here since the bizarre evening when the capital's underground system bamboozled him, and his strong start – subduing then taming the wild-swinging Argentinian Facundo Argüello in an hour and 45 minutes – was the sort of performance to lift the hopes of his compatriots left in the tournament, Edmund and Heather Watson.
Its aerial bombing and artillery fire have proved better at enraging locals than at subduing bands of guerrillas; and its induction of tribal allies has pushed their traditional rivals into the Houthis' arms.
They rented cars from big rental agencies, and they bought knives and cans of mace for subduing their fellow passengers from the world's cheapest and friendliest stores.
A richly bearded Anthony Quinn plays the role of Omar Mukhtar, the simple Koran teacher who became a guerrilla hero, and for 20 years, from 1911-31, harassed the Italian forces bent on subduing Libya.
A decision to turn a blind eye may have less to do with lack of control, and more with a chilling assessment of rape's use as a terror tactic.Rape is a means of subduing foes and civilians without having to engage in the risky business of battle.
The possibility of an American attack now shapes everything he does, at home and abroad.At home, he has been shoring up his position by the time-honoured method of rewarding his supporters and subduing the rest of the country.
A report of a disturbed man waving around a steak knife and making angry pronouncements is supposed to end with a team of police officers surrounding the offender, trying to talk him down, and, if persuasion fails, eventually subduing him and sending him in for psychiatric evaluation.
The group that started as an al-Qaeda affiliate in Iraq has prospered there since the Americans left in 2011, subduing much of the rural, Sunni-dominated north and pursuing an aggressive terror campaign against Shias further south.
But the sheer effort of subduing , defending and administering such a huge mixture of territories and peoples exhausted the country's productive powers and enfeebled its civic institutions.
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The primary grammatical function of "subduing" is that of a present participle , functioning as a verb form within continuous tenses or as a gerund, acting as a noun. Ludwig AI confirms its proper usage and wide applicability across diverse contexts.
Expression frequency: Very common
