subjugation
IPA: sˈʌbdʒʌgˈeɪʃʌn
noun
- The act of subjugating.
- The state of being subjugated; forced control by others.
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Examples of "subjugation" in Sentences
- The subjugation of the tribe was unsuccessful.
- It resulted in partial subjugation of the Sikh kingdom.
- The war ended with the defeat and subjugation of the Zulus.
- It compelled the British to recognise a thorough subjugation of the Hos.
- Conquest is the act of military subjugation of an enemy by force of arms.
- It discusses violence as a means of liberation and a catharsis to subjugation.
- However, I firmly believe that 'subjugation' of neighbouring peoples was not a goal or political philosophy driving the creation of a Jewish independent state.
- This gloomy picture I hold up, not as a prophecy of the fate we are doomed to incur, but only as descriptive of what the term subjugation unquestionably imports.
- We say we know exactly what "moral" is: it is your unprincipled conscience in subjugation to irrational prejudice, in servitude to the mob, validated only by appeals to authority.
- Firstly, because this formalistic approach overlooks some real-life dynamics, such as that under the old Stormont regime Catholics were not unequal in law - their subjugation was a matter of informal arrangements.
- That's called subjugation and/or segregation and, as a society that promotes and prides itself as a bastion of freedom and equality for all, we should reject this outright discrimination against any one group of people.
- Your subsequent comments suggest that Zionism is sensitive to at least one of these: "I firmly believe that 'subjugation' of neighbouring peoples was not a goal or political philosophy driving the creation of a Jewish independent state."
- Not content with the so-called subjugation of every terrestrial bog, rock, and moorland, he would fain discover some method of reclamation applicable to the ocean and the sky, that in due calendar time they might be brought to bud and blossom as the rose.
- It cannot be supposed that Congress intended, without procuring thereby the very slightest advantage to the Government, to place it in the power of all men between the ages of eighteen and thirty-five years, to put themselves beyond the reach of their country's call, during the war; at a time too, when the enemy were declaring that our subjugation was a simple question of arithmetic, and depended upon the process of giving man for man, to death, or more if necessary, till our last man was gone.
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