"What happens in Iran is women are subjugated.
Only after these agonies did the Parliament Act of 1911, which subjugated the Lords to the Commons and began the erosion of the hereditary principle, become law.A century later, the heirs to the old Liberal Party face scarcely less daunting hurdles as they try to finish the job of Lords reform.
And it is Russia's shadow that has fallen longest, and most balefully.Central Asia was subjugated over the 18th and 19th centuries: it furnished tsarist Lebensraum, cotton and a buffer against the British.
Mr Ozawa subjugated policy and principle to winning elections with pork and deficit spending.
The general, they argue, has merely tweaked his wartime strategy of "bullets and beans" with which he subjugated such places into a peacetime version involving sticks and carrots.For bullets and sticks, the FRG can still rely on the former "Civilian Patrols", local men who either volunteered or were dragooned by the army to carry out many of the killings.
If a well-intentioned majority of Palestinians had any influence, Gaza would now be a model of civil sovereignty, instead of clan violence, chaos and Kassams.Ordinary Palestinians are subjugated to the militia and terrorists who hold the weapons and can use them at will.
They were part of the Russian empire for centuries and were subjugated by the Soviet Union for 50 years.
Mr Ferguson is a fan both of America and of the idea of empire, not because he wants people to be subjugated but because he thinks there is a liberal form of empire in which an outside force can bring the institutions, practices and rule of law that people need if they are to make prosperous and peaceful use of their own freedom.
Nancy Cott's study of marriage as a public institution, "Public Vows: A History of Marriage and the Nation", is full of reminders of how until very recently the law subjugated women to their husbands.
In the main square of Le Val Fourré, the Muslim quarter of Mantes-la-Jolie, where an electioneering President Jacques Chirac was spat upon by youths earlier this year, few women are to be seen, and in the café the people drinking mint tea are all men.That is not to say that all women are subjugated.
