Sentence examples for subjugation at from inspiring English sources

"Years of subjugation at the hands of the N.C.P.," or the National Congress Party, as the ruling party is called, "have yielded both political apathy and a weak opposition.

The triumph of these little divs over our noble red British squirrel had become a searing metaphor for my own subjugation at the hands of the anti-fuck Yanks.

Dennis Weaver plays the illustratively named David Mann, whose subjugation at the hands of shifting 1970s gender roles is writ large after a maniacal (and macho) truck driver attempts to run his Plymouth Valiant off the road.

But as its main character, Athanasius Pernath, a gem-engraver living in the Jewish ghetto, is plunged from one nightmarish scenario to another at the behest of shadowy powers, unknowable bureaucracy and individuals with covert agendas: perhaps his is the story of the Jews of the Prague ghetto and their centuries of subjugation at the hands of others.

Soon after, the Picts rose in rebellion against Northumbrian subjugation at the Battle of Two Rivers, recorded in the 8th century by Stephen of Ripon, hagiographer of Wilfrid.

When foreign governments and international organizations demanded greater transparency in exchange for food, Kim Jong Il warned that "imperialist 'aid' is a noose of plunder and subjugation, aimed at robbing ten and even a hundred things for one thing that is given".

Because the Suebi maintained an independent kingdom in Galicia and the Basques steadfastly opposed all attempts at subjugation, the Visigoths did not control the entire peninsula.

White Australian writers have long tried to tackle Aboriginal subjects, starting with Xavier Herbert and his "Capricornia" (1938), a sweeping social protest novel that described the subjugation of Aborigines at the hands of white settlers.

Jews should be able to put themselves in Palestinian shoes and understand the intense frustration caused by years of subjugation and violence at the hands of the Israeli Army and police and Jewish vigilantes.

All the efforts at subjugation of the rebellion had failed and their armies had not been destroyed.

But in the little island kingdom of Bahrain, where the Shia majority chafes at their subjugation under a Sunni ruling family, the Al Khalifas, it has become another excuse to reclaim the streets.