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These stratifications keep Gilead’s women occupied with their own alliances and enmities; they do not rise against the men who have subjugated them.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 26, 2017

He would have subjugated Italy and attempted to destroy the Vatican, representing as it did a powerful competing entity.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sargon of Assyria, who claims to have subjugated all the land of the Hittites, speaks, as do other Assyrian kings, of the people of Hamath, and what he did to Ilu-bi'idi or Yau-bi'idi, their king.

From The Old Testament In the Light of The Historical Records and Legends of Assyria and Babylonia by Pinches, Theophilus Goldridge

For, while we often falsely fancy that we have subjugated nature to our service, the fact is that we are as irremediably as ever at the mercy of nature.

From The Feast of St. Friend by Bennett, Arnold

In an inscription in the same valley, the oldest which we possess, his predecessor Snefru claims to have subjugated these regions.

From The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) by Duncker, Max