Sentence examples for subjugated for from inspiring English sources

Hundreds of thousands more were tortured as an entire nation was made to pay for resisting the might of an overseas "master" to whom it had been subjugated for 132 years.

Having been subjugated for so long, this victory, though incomplete and uncertain, must feel great.

"In calling for the lynching of those who vandalized a Confederate statute in Springfield, state Rep. Warren Love invoked a form of political violence used throughout the South to keep African Americans subjugated for generations following the fall of the Confederacy," House minority leader Gail McCann Beatty told the Post-Dispatch.

This is a country that, in the nineteenth century, the West attacked and subjugated purely for commercial reasons.

Nonetheless, the movement toward European political, monetary, and military unity that found expression in the Maastricht Treaty and establishment of the EU reminded too many Norwegians of the unions in their past that had subjugated Norway for more than half a millennium.

The Iranian regime, which has subjugated its people for so long, will not be deterred by any sanctions, no matter how stringent.

Appalled that women have been subjugated and objectified for centuries, and that misogyny still exists despite our strides in the fight for equality.

The current president and former military official, Otto Pérez Molina, has been accused of leading some of the massacres connected to Montt in 1982, and is seen by many as an extension of the former government forces that subjugated the Maya for decades.

They were part of the Russian empire for centuries and were subjugated by the Soviet Union for 50 years.

I say all of that because while affirmative action does not exist anymore (despite what people would like others to believe especially those arguing for the recent Fisher case), JFK's intention when he created it was to provide an additional push for communities who have been subjugated, in some cases, for centuries.

As Hart tells me, "The situation in the Philippines is particularly sad because part of Duterte's appeal is that he promised to restore Filipino pride and honor, which is important for a nation that has been colonized and subjugated by other nations for so long.