Meanings of hold in subjection in English

They hold in subjection all living things, both in heaven and on earth.

To hold in subjection such distant regions only increased the difficulty of guarding the frontiers.

To hold in subjection all the raging passions, all the insatiable desires in this fathomless ocean!

Ye voluptuous, ye opulent and great, who hold in subjection such numbers of your fellow-creatures, and suffer these things to happen-beware!

In India one hundred thousand beef-eating and brandy-and-soda guzzling Britons hold in subjection two hundred and fifty million vegetarian abstainers of the same Aryan race.

A handful conquered and holds in subjection the crowded millions of India.

His sovereign himself he held in subjection, while he exalted the throne.

Scotland might be over-run, but she could not be held in subjection.

Without military power they are wholly incapable of holding in subjection the white people of the South.

These people are neighbours of the Assyrians, and being few in number, they were held in subjection.

Holding its women in absolute subjection, the Moorish nation is itself held in subjection, morally, politically, socially.

Imagine an ignorant people, downtrodden and oppressed, thoughtless, negligent and mentally darkened, held in subjection as slaves.

It was the religion of a proud, brave people, who were constantly held in subjection to foreign conquerors.

Benjamin Piney reported that he came from Baltimore county, Maryland, where he had been held in subjection to Mary Hawkins.

They represented but a small percentage of the total population, which they held in subjection to them by their military power.

They were to hold their residence in the midst of a tribe who were conquered, but held in subjection only by fear.