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"In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride.

This is why extortion works - if your enemy is more powerful than you chances are you will subdue.

Then the rest of the passengers, knowing that they will die if they don't stop this, dogpile on the attackers and subdue them.

Or even better, use something like Flux[1] to subdue the tones of that glaring white screen just enough to reduce eye strain.

That they've lost their touch to slyly subdue us by painting the convincing illusion that they have our best interests in mind?

But they did subdue it - in a way horrifically reminiscent of the US in Fallujah.

[1] This was armed civilians fighting an invading army, which took a huge German effort to subdue.

Therefore they'd need to subdue him physically or chemically.

You're telling me that a dedicated attacker couldn't kill or otherwise subdue an unwitting partner?

" 'Binding' the devil apparently dispatches angels who 'subdue' the demons responsible for your problem.

It does not matter if all seven billion people consented, all it would take is one willing person with a weapon strong enough to subdue the rest of civilization to take power.

No European power managed to subdue trans-Atlantic rebellions from established settler states.

As one author described,The forces for FM, largely engineering, could not overcome the weight of strategy devised by the sales, patent, and legal offices to subdue this threat to corporate position.

It's another thing entirely for a foreign government with so much power to do it, let alone a government that directly controls and that can subdue the biggest companies that operate on the Internet.

For example, in a free market, labour unions would be as powerful as the owners of capital - in the modern world, capital owners have a disproportionate influence on law-making to subdue this power.

... Similarly, the largest orb-weavers make webs powerful enough to retain the largest insects, which are simply not available to smaller spiders, and their webs can sometimes even subdue vertebrate prey.

Particularly since, following the initial attacks on 9/11, on multiple occasions it has been demonstrated that people on airplanes will take extraordinary risks to subdue attempted terrorists.

Nobody in the West seem to think about hundreds of innocent civilians dying because of the brutal attempt of the new pro-Western Ukrainian government to subdue pro-Russian separatists in what they unashamedly call "Anti-terrorist operation".