Sentence examples for to subjugation from inspiring English sources

The cat, however, has not yielded as readily to subjugation.

One constant ploy was "divide and rule" -- a highly effective tactic in a society disoriented by the propaganda of Serbian television and used to subjugation.

According to Goldfield, the war reduced the North to a sort of postorgiastic exhaustion, leaving former slaves at the mercy of terrorist organizations like the Ku Klux Klan in a South determined to return them to subjugation.

Yet most Turkish Cypriots, though determined to resist anything that amounts to subjugation, are gradually coming to realise that, without a settlement, their slice of Cyprus will get steadily poorer than its neighbour.Mr Clerides has his work cut out to persuade his own Greek Cypriots to make the necessary concessions.

In a way, Jake is a throwback to Joe, the black riverboat worker in Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein's 1927 musical play, "Show Boat"; indeed, when he sings "You Should Be Loved" to Violet, we're not too far from "Ole Man River" — that deep ode to subjugation and isolation.

In his Op-Ed for the Times on Thursday, Charles Blow says we're living in an age of identity — "a time when more people are asserting themselves as nonconformists as they recognize that there is a variety of intersections to subjugation".

Perennially wounded and self-absorbed, O'Neill seemed both unable to abide subjugation to a woman and unable to live without it.

In addition, the factionalism within the bureaucracy that had become apparent during the later years of al-Mu'tadid's reign would debilitate the Abbasid government for decades to come, leading to the subjugation of the Caliphate to a series of military strongmen, culminating in the conquest of Baghdad by the Buyids in 946.

The governor of South Tyrol, a German-speaking province ceded to Italy after the First World War, said that it was unreasonable to expect his people to celebrate their subjugation to an alien culture.

"Anything that relates to the subjugation of women is abhorrent to me," another wrote.

They offered no alternative to workers except subjugation to narcissistic bullies and careerists.