Sentence examples for the subduing of from inspiring English sources

A major step in that success came in the subduing of the loyalist defenders of Bogotá in 1819.

"Growing up" is often equated with the subduing of desire, or a surrender to the reality of its inaccessibility.

In the title role, Henry Fonda has a long stride, a nose on loan from Pinocchio, and a winning homeliness of tone, which is used to unforgettable effect in the subduing of a lynch mob.

The women are specialists in the subduing of spirited hair -- wizards of blow-dryers and curling irons, of brightly colored rollers and creamy Caribbean unguents, of bobby pins and potent frizz fighters.

Firefighting direction will improve, rescue work will be far more efficient than with ladders, and radio instructions from aloft will speed the subduing of flames".

Every conscious decision to enhance human life—every attempt to rise above the animals—entails the subduing of nature and the repudiation of this environmentalist garbage that is espoused in this article.

Lawrence and Jewett argue that the killing of Palpatine in Return of the Jedi represented "the permanent subduing of evil".

The subdued performance of the economy in the three months to May was driven by weakness in the production sector, offset by a mild rebound in services.

When the hermit Dr. Marianus (the tenor Adam Klein) invokes the Eternal Feminine, Mr. Zander's players captured the subdued rapture of the music.

Since the subdued stutter of "Seinfeld," "Curb Your Enthusiasm" and "The Office" have demonstrated so plainly to the contrary, why is loud still considered funny?

Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante in E flat (K. 297b) followed, in a warm and elegantly expressive performance that captured the subdued melancholia of this deceptively genial music.