Meanings of keep in subjection in inglés

The will can only be made submissive by frequent self-denials, which must keep in subjection its sallies and inclinations.

He would, in short, be calm, free, keep in subjection his passions, avoid self-indulgence, and practise a broad charity and benevolence.

The knight despised and did his best to keep in subjection the toiling peasantry, upon whose backs rested the real burden of feudal society.

A colony was a child: children must be kept in subjection.

While here they are kept in subjection to rather stringent regulations.

In the chief pipe-smoking nations they are kept in subjection.

The slaves of the past civilization were kept in subjection by main strength and fear.

She yielded to a passion which her love of virtue had alone kept in subjection.

A formidable chief, Louis, had, however, lately become very troublesome, and was not so easily kept in subjection.

Burke was too big a man for Premier-such men have to be kept in subjection-thepopular will is wise.

Princes who were ill-affected towards him, he kept in subjection, more by menaces and remonstrances, than by force of arms.

In Sparta the nobles kept in subjection a large population of slaves, and were themselves constantly under the severe discipline of the magistrates.

Again, "A town that has been anciently free cannot more easily be kept in subjection than by employing its own citizens."

A parasitic fly from South Africa is keeping in subjection the black scale, the worst pest of the orange and lemon industry in California.

Up to that moment,-theChristmas of 1861,-Marylandwas kept in subjection by the guns which General Dix had planted over the city of Baltimore.

The nave was divided near the middle by a Gothic screen of wood artistically carved, although the ornamental motive had been kept in subjection.