English example sentences with "subdue"

We cannot subdue nature.

There is, perhaps, not one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as vanity.

I could not subdue the desire to laugh.

For, in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery: but in fact, eleven men well armed will certainly subdue one single man in his shirt.

The policemen caught up with Dan and managed to subdue him.

Dan tried to attack the psychiatrist, but the orderlies managed to subdue him and sedate him.

Police used rubber bullets to subdue the rioters.

Not the feelings which Ravenswood had begun to entertain towards Lucy Ashton, not the hospitality due to his guests, were able entirely to subdue, though they warmly combated, the deep passions which arose within him at beholding his father's foe standing in the hall of the family of which he had in a great measure accelerated the ruin.

And God blessed them, saying: Increase and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and all living creatures that move upon the earth.

There are no clear signs that warmer conditions will subdue or stop the virus.

The police used tear gas to subdue the protestors.

Gustavo managed to subdue Rima.

The area is home to many militia and rebel groups, and efforts to subdue or integrate the groups into the national army have largely failed.

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.