Sentence examples for subjugation the from inspiring English sources

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.

The episode becomes a pretext for erotica, and as the woman is complicit in her own subjugation, the dirt of sexual oppression is whitewashed away.

The country's economic subjugation — the Chinese Communists later referred to the period as the "century of humiliation" — may have ultimately helped bring down the Qing dynasty and usher in civil war and revolution.

The Barbican had the legal right to stage these scenes of live actors depicting images of slavery subjugation, the better to emphasise the barbarities for those who hadn't already grasped them.

Morgan recounts the long history of American racism, which is also the long history of America: liberty and bondage, settlement and expansion, white prosperity and black subjugation, the Great Migration and mass incarceration.

The Anglo-Scottish wars were fought from 1643 to 1646, resumed from 1648 to 1651, and resulted in an English military occupation and complete political subjugation (the incorporation of Scotland into an enhanced English state) that lasted until the Restoration in 1660.

It was part of the idea of the subjugation of the individual to the collective".

In my 20s and 30s, the very word seemed to encapsulate the humdrum, the subjugation of the soul to an uncaring railway timetable.

The Middle East - the national borders, the role of Israel, the subjugation of the Palestinians - was, for reasons we know, largely a western creation.

"He would be seen as a great betrayer, someone who was justifying the subjugation of the majority of the people".

Still, an unspoken, creeping notion may persist that conducting represents the subjugation of the many by the one.