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Remember Jemel Roberson, the armed Illinois security guard who was subduing a gun-wielding assailant — and wearing a hat that said “SECURITY” — when police arrived?

From Washington Post • Dec. 6, 2018

While Rome was subduing the West, she was also extending her influence over the highly civilized peoples of the East.

From Early European History by Webster, Hutton

Ali Dordux was a man of courage as well as policy; he perceived also that hunger was giving boldness to the citizens, while he trusted it was subduing the fierceness of the soldiery.

From Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada by Irving, Washington

Few military events occurred during this reign, the empire being perfectly quiet, except where the active Agricola was subduing the wandering tribes of Scotland.

From A Smaller History of Rome by Smith, William, Sir

While he was besieging Elatea his brother Lucius Flamininus in company with Attalus and the Rhodians was subduing the islands.

From Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form by Dio, Cassius