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. From Wordnik.com. [A Discourse Before the General Assembly of South Carolina, on December 10, 1863: Appointed By the Legislature as a Day of Fasting, Humiliation and Prayer] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-01-01] Reference
Sovereign of that spirit of loyalty and unquestioning subjugation which is one of the noblest capabilities of our nature. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858] Reference
My example using the IRS is an illustration to support my definition of 'subjugation'. From Wordnik.com. [Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local] Reference
That subjugation which is a vital condition to the Normal Social Life does not seem to be necessary to the Great State. From Wordnik.com. [An Englishman Looks at the World] Reference
In this case, where they exploit fat people and sell it off as kindness, I feel like "subjugation" might almost be more appropriate. From Wordnik.com. [Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz] Reference
Human subjugation was the rule, not the exception. From Wordnik.com. [The Future Of Freedom] Reference
Marriages of equals, and marriages of subjugation. From Wordnik.com. [Rick Horowitz: Same-Sex Marriage: In the Beginning, There Was the Word] Reference
The man's work is one of destruction and subjugation. From Wordnik.com. [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference
The subjugation of women is their strategy to that end. From Wordnik.com. [Esther Hyneman: Staying Honest About Afghanistan] Reference
Government, but the military subjugation of the rebellion. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
But other scholars argue that deference equals subjugation. From Wordnik.com. [Mosque Plan Ignites Debate About Religious Freedom, Commemoration of 9/11] Reference
The theme of her performance art is the subjugation of women. From Wordnik.com. [Take The Money And Shut Up!] Reference
The tranquillity of entire subjugation followed these events in the province. From Wordnik.com. [Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses] Reference
Europe, carrying everywhere in their pathway subjugation, devastation, and slaughter. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
Marius did not immediately return to Rome, but remained to complete the subjugation of. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic] Reference
These are the implements of war and subjugation; the last arguments to which kings resort. From Wordnik.com. [One Thousand Secrets of Wise and Rich Men Revealed] Reference
But they are becoming too intelligent to endure subjugation when they can evade it by flight. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences] Reference
A woman, rather than suffer subjugation at his hands, had perjured her soul in a dreadful lie. From Wordnik.com. [Colorado Jim] Reference
Today much of Japan's Korean population continues to face tremendous discrimination, if not subjugation. From Wordnik.com. [The Ties That Bind] Reference
Instead of mass subjugation, these missionaries taught equality of all races, classes, and of male and female. From Wordnik.com. [Paul Wagler: Ancient Empires and Conquerors: Reflections on my recent trip to Turkey, Greece and Italy] Reference
They were thus forced to surrender, and Cincinnatus obliged them to pass under the yoke, in token of subjugation. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic] Reference
Davis himself said, "For an enemy so relentless, in the war for our subjugation, I could not be expected to mourn.". From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference
As President Nicolas Sarkozy stated last year, the burqa is "a sign of the subjugation, of the submission, of women.". From Wordnik.com. [Todd Green, Ph.D.: What Not to Wear: Dictating Islamic Fashion in France] Reference
I believe that it was the words of our founding fathers that liberated us from persecution, oppression, and subjugation. From Wordnik.com. [Yehuda Berg: The Power of Words] Reference
Had the Allies gone down to defeat, by the time I got here Nazi subjugation of American women would have been complete. From Wordnik.com. [Nazi Muff-Divers: It Could've Happened Here] Reference
The truth is, we fired upon it, and those who fought under it, when you came to our doors upon the mission of subjugation. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
"The United States of America are betraying the sacred principles of mankind in their continuous subjugation of my country.". From Wordnik.com. [Lolita Lebron, jailed for gun attack at U.S. Capitol in 1954, dies at 90] Reference
For a woman to fully love, to feel devotion to, yes, dammit, to worship her man does not need to be a return to subjugation. From Wordnik.com. [Arjuna Ardagh: Response to the 435 Comments on 'Why It Is Wise to Worship a Woman'] Reference
The women looked forward to their former subjugation as only a matter of time, and bitterly regretted their inability to prevent it. From Wordnik.com. [Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch] Reference
The old or New England colonies, which had so largely contributed to the subjugation of Canada, were already largely engaged in trade. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1] Reference
The discovery of diamonds (1867) and gold (1886) spurred wealth and immigration and intensified the subjugation of the native inhabitants. From Wordnik.com. [The 2004 CIA World Factbook] Reference
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