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Questions from MPs to the PM also focused on standards in public life, including whether ministers were subjecting themselves to scrutiny by answering questions in Parliament.

From BBC • Dec. 15, 2025

Ms. Warren told Politico she was concerned that law enforcement authorities were subjecting prisoners to such treatment in order to get them to cooperate.

From Washington Times • Jul. 29, 2021

During his Senate confirmation hearings in 1991, for example, he charged that Anita Hill and her supporters were subjecting him to a "high-tech lynching."

From Time Magazine Archive

Between these fields was the forest, which Indians were subjecting to parallel changes.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

You did not know, sir, to what you were subjecting me, did you?

From The Virginians by Thackeray, William Makepeace