5 sentences with 'subdue'
Example sentences and phrases with the word subdue and other words derived from it.
• « In order to support the peoples of the interior and subdue the officials who resisted its authority, the Government Junta in Buenos Aires decided to send military expeditions to the four governorates of Upper Peru and also to Paraguay. »
• « But this did not pacify spirits, and Buenos Aires henceforth tried in vain to subdue the eastern caudillo Artigas. He did not succeed and instead Artigas' influence spread to Misiones, Entre Ríos, Corrientes and Santa Fe, provinces where he began to be called the Protector of the Free Peoples. »
• « The government appointed Juan Manuel de Rosas commander general of the countryside and in 1820 he collaborated with Martín Rodríguez to subdue the rebels. »
• « According to the Christian Bible, God created humankind in his image with a mandate to use and subdue the rest of creation, which included not only the earth, but all animal life. »
• « The British established a military government in Charleston under the command of General Sir Henry Clinton. From this base, Clinton ordered General Charles Cornwallis to subdue the rest of South Carolina. »