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43 examples of Subjugation in a sentence

That is why I said it is very important to cover the stories of activists in the way that it helps mobilize people, not in the way that it helps deter their action and force even more their subjugation to the oppressive system.
There were 150 cameras handed out to the Iraqi people most all of which view the war and subjugation of the occupying forces as a growing pain for the bettering of their nation.
What is it about the female gender that has rendered it so hateful to the culture that women are routinely subject to the most unimaginable horrors, including rape, murder, infanticide, imposed illiteracy, infidelity, and the subjugation of spirit that goes under the name of 'dowry'?
Set in Bengal in the early 1900's, the film (based on Tagore's novel) draws an analogy between the British colonization of India and the subjugation of women.
The desire for peace, the quest for enlightenment, the respect for life sometimes leads to subjugation.
The story of peace-loving farmers and townspeople fighting for land, water, law and order, and the respect and ultimate subjugation of the long entrenched cattle interests and their hired guns had been worked over better in earlier (Shane) and probably later films as well.
One chapter of the conquista - the subjugation of the Native American peoples by Europeans.
But then minorities - especially with a history of subjugation - always do, because it allows them to express their cultural identity and religious freedom.
Blood and religion, not citizenship, was what defined the nation during periods of subjugation.
Cubans are proud people who are mindful of their history of subjugation by larger powers.
Many Hindus claim that the Babri Masjid stood on the precise spot of Ram’s birth and had been placed there by Babur to remind a conquered people of their subjugation.
The European Commission’s agreement in September to postpone full implementation of Ukraine’s association agreement with the European Union – the agreement that Ukrainians fought and died for in Kyiv last winter – signaled to Putin that cunning, force, and intimidation can win Western acquiescence in his subjugation of Ukraine and theft of Crimea.
In southern Europe, central banks have traditionally been part of the government, which means that representatives from most EU member states consider central-bank subjugation natural.
Wahhabism promotes, among other things, the subjugation of women and the death of “infidels.”
Beyond the human toll – including 10-15 million direct victims – absolute subjugation begot a unique loss of confidence.
It is a stark reminder of what colonialism truly was: shameless subjugation, coercion, and misappropriation.
When protecting capital is elevated to a moral principle, or justified as a component of human rights in a region resentful over its sense of economic subjugation, the effect is to foster disillusion with human rights.
Any “victory” that the Tamils perceive as leading to subjugation of their rights and aspirations for equality with the majority Sinhalese will be short-lived.
Taliban men no doubt believe that the subjugation of women is a cultural privilege, as well as a religious duty.
These women’s tragic stories suggest that the ISIS pseudo-state was built on the total subjugation of women, and the group has indeed frequently crafted brutal, misogynistic propaganda to express and promote its ideology.
It is fitting that strong and courageous women should help defeat a group whose founding myth rests on the violent subjugation of women.
While South Korea obviously should not disregard its history, it should find a way to move past its colonial subjugation and form new, mutually beneficial relationships with Japan, much as India, Taiwan, the Philippines, and Indonesia have done with their former colonizers.
And they believe that their racial or religious “supremacy” justifies the subjugation, and even enslavement, of others.
Citing retrograde cultural practices – from the subjugation of women to violence against religious and sexual minorities – in the autocratic and crisis-prone countries from which immigrants often hail, their opponents often argue that people from these cultures cannot assimilate properly in Europe.
Ukraine’s subjugation to Russia by military force would bring down the curtain on that order and its underlying principles: non-violence, the inviolability of borders, and popular self-determination, rather than spheres of influence.
Serbia, it seems, is just one of the first targets in an ongoing campaign of subjugation.
But, until recently, the “Sledgehammer” case – named after the fictitious coup plot – was widely viewed as heralding the long-overdue democratic subjugation of Turkey’s meddlesome military to its elected government.
The Hindu nationalists in India were reacting, understandably enough, to the shame of colonial subjugation.
After all, because biology-based arguments about gender difference have historically been used to justify women’s subjugation, women have been reluctant to concede any innate difference, lest it be used against them.
The goal is less often victory on the battlefield than ethnic cleansing, subjugation, even genocide.