How To Use Dominion In A Sentence

  • Stealing away, (whence, I suppose, the ironical phrase of trusty Trojan to this day,) like a thief — pretendedly indeed at the command of the gods; but could that be, when the errand he went upon was to rob other princes, not only of their dominions, but of their lives? — Clarissa Harlowe
  • The favourite for the interdominion grand final will be decided by Monday's barrier draw.
  • Politically active conservative Christians rarely use the term dominionism as a self-description; many feel it is a loaded or pejorative term.
  • The Dominion through her Indian officers and her mounted constabulary is showing herself the inheritress of these traditions. Memories of Canada and Scotland — Speeches and Verses
  • This dominion not only extends over the open seas, but also over all creeks, arms of the sea, havens, ports, and tide-rivers, as far as the reach of the tide, around the coasts of the kingdom.
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  • The show presents its monumental architecture, its military might, the way it controlled and administered its dominions through provincial satrapies and the network of roads that traversed its vast distances.
  • Alone in her dominion, the inheritress entered the death-chamber, and there passed an hour upon her knees. Veranilda
  • Commander of the Faithful, Abd al-Malik bin Marwan, who hath heard tell of the lord Solomon, son of David (on whom be peace!) and of that which the Most High bestowed upon him of supreme dominion; how he held sway over Jinn and beast and bird and was wont when he was wroth with one of the Marids, to shut him in a cucurbite of brass and, stopping its mouth on him with lead, whereon he impressed his seal ring, to cast him into the sea of Al – Karkar. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • And whereas some have attributed the Dominion to the Man onely, as being of the more excellent Sex; they misreckon in it. Leviathan
  • They truly believe they have dominion over us.
  • As for him, he believed the Quakers to be those agents of the devil foretold in the New Testament, who ‘despise dominion and speak evil of dignities.’
  • How immensely impertinent is the prejudice that forbids so natural a use of money! why should the better half of a man's actions be always under the dominion of some prescriptive slavery; 'Tis hideous to think of. Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth
  • Dominion States of America tramble the country from sea to shining sea? WN.com - Articles related to Capital gains tax: Obsorne 'looking to take sting out'
  • As a self-governing Dominion within the British Empire, New Zealand was not technically a sovereign state in 1939.
  • A Southam-Torstar deal; a Canadian Tire; a Seagram attempt to bring in nonvoting shares; a predatory takeover of a subsidiary (Dominion Glass, Keeprite, etc.) are all at the expense of my clients and diminish my performance. Shareholder Democracy
  • Inarus, the author of the revolt, was betrayed, and perished on the cross, and the whole of Egypt once more succumbed to the Persian yoke, save only that portion called the marshy or fenny parts (under the dominion of a prince named Amyrtaeus), protected by the nature of the soil and the proverbial valour of the inhabitants. Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Complete
  • Farther west was the dominion of the Thraco-Phrygian Muski. Myths of Babylonia and Assyria
  • He that would know the operation of the herbs must look up to the stars astrologically," says this master; and so to him briony is "a furious martial plant," and brank ursine "an excellent plant under the dominion of the moon. Apologia Diffidentis
  • Rome was still the lawful mistress of the world: the pope and the emperor, the bishop and general, had abdicated their station by an inglorious retreat to the Rhone and the Danube; but if she could resume her virtue, the republic might again vindicate her liberty and dominion. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
  • Settling down has been the Turks' secret to asserting their dominion. Traditionally a nomadic people, they have at last adopted a system of centralised rule to form the Seljuk Empire.
  • The cost will have been, when completed, about $700,000, and it is now waiting only for the entrance caisson, which is being made at the Dominion Bridge Canada and the States
  • There are reasons to defend a poor people, to revolt against an evil government, seize dominions, disagreements, holding land, invasion, self-defense, and so on and so forth.
  • They are all operated by the Navy League Divisions, but are financed from the Dominion Council in Toronto. The Merchant Navy: The Fourth Arm of the Fighting Services
  • Overall, the heavenly hierarchy moves from the freedom and might of contemplative adoration (by the seraphim, cherubim, and ophanim) through principled order and sovereignty (ruled by the dominions, princedoms, and powers) to active service toward others in a spirit of compassion and care (by the virtues, archangels, and angels). Archive 2007-09-01
  • Robert was succeeded by his sons Roger and William, to whose dominion not only was Naples added, but all the places interjacent as far as Rome, and afterward Sicily, of which Roger became sovereign; but, upon William going to Constantinople, to marry the daughter of the emperor, his dominions were wrested from him by his brother Roger. The History of Florence
  • Corks's eyes shot open as a heavily damaged Dominion Interceptor barreled toward them out of control.
  • It is never quite free from the old atavistic type of the trifoliolate leaves, and invariably, when external conditions become less favorable, this atavistic form is apt to gain dominion over the more refined varietal character. Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation
  • But they had by their sin forfeited both the love of God and dominion over their neighbours. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
  • The stone pages of the law have, by definition, become the absolute of literature, thus achieving a dominion over the literary world of which everyday insufferable literary critics can only dream.
  • As a consequence, whatever the result the Dominions would be disappointed and disgruntled.
  • They truly believe they have dominion over us.
  • While the Old Dominion Pub has closed down, the brewery is still making some fantastic beers … TeeMorris.com » Blog Archive » MicroBrewed: A Flashback to the First Meeting
  • The supreme God is a Being eternal, infinite, absolutely perfect; but a being, however perfect, without dominion, cannot be said to be Lord God. Isaac Newton 
  • The three-time interdominion champion has drifted out.
  • the dominions of both rulers passed away to their spurious or doubtful offspring
  • The one thing that he accomplished was to depict the ruin of an heroic nature through an insatiable ambition for supremacy, doomed by its own vastitude to defeat itself, -- supremacy of conquest and dominion with Tamburlaine, supremacy of knowledge with Dr. Faustus, supremacy of wealth with Barabas, the Jew of The Theory of the Theatre
  • On this latter point the earl of Shelburne rcmonftrated veiy warmly with his colleagues, urging in forciUe language the fupinenefs, the cowardice, the tij-eachery, the befotted ftupidity of permitting Lfiwis to rob the Corficans of their ina« lienable rights, and to overturn the balance of power by annexing to his dominions an ifland that would give him coniiderable in - fluence in the affiurs of Italy, and a dangerous extenfion of con - troul over the trade of the Mediterranean. Memoirs of the right honourable edmund burke
  • Gath is omitted, being at this time under the Jews 'dominion. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
  • Advocates of out-and-out conquest argued that Indians were either subhumans or heathens and were therefore incapable of having dominion over themselves or over property.
  • In truth they are animated by nothing but their own lust for power and their desire for dominion over others.
  • On the other hand, Canada enjoys an advantage, as all the Dominions do, which the Mother Country does not possess, but which now the Mother Country very much envies, that is, of being a long distance from Europe and I am not at all sure that the Dominions would necessarily be wise-it is not for me to express an opinion upon this-at least it is conceivable that a Dominion might be wise in refusing to adhere to the Locarno agreement. Certain Phases of the Empire
  • The acknowledging of this truth has a respect not only to the manifestation of his justice, but also of the wisdom, holiness, and dominion of God over his creatures: for that justice which, in respect of its effect and egress, we call vindicatory, which, as we have before demonstrated, is natural to A Dissertation on Divine Justice
  • His dominions included all the lands from the Baltic to the country beyond the Carpathians, and from the River Oder to the provinces beyond the Vistula.
  • There is only one holistic system of systems, one vast and immane, interwoven, interacting, multi-variate, multi-national dominion of dollars! Archive 2006-03-01
  • Here in Linovia they were in Swedish dominions, but there was little to be purchased, for the peasantry had been brought to ruin by the foraging parties of the Russians and Poles. A Jacobite Exile Being the Adventures of a Young Englishman in the Service of Charles the Twelfth of Sweden
  • It identifies the restoration of dominion over the powers in the new humanity.
  • Not only that, but the power is above all other principality, power, dominion, or might.
  • Essentially, this involved the welding into a composite monarchy of those territories ruled by medieval kings as ‘parcels’ or dominions of the English crown.
  • One Dominionist I know has said (aside from calling anybody interested in preserving God's earth an "ecoterrorist") that there's no way humans can possibly destroy the ecosystem. Not My Tribe
  • In discussing Hegel, Voegelin also brands him a "Gnostic, " and then offers the following: "Gnosis desires dominion over being; in order to seize control of being the Gnostic constructs his system.
  • There is only one holistic system of systems, one vast and immane, interwoven, interacting, multivariate, multinational dominion of dollars. Norman Horowitz: A Lion Is Chewing my Foot off, Somebody Call a Cop! 2
  • Now his control over his dominion is complete. Times, Sunday Times
  • This is his sixth Interdominion title and the crew's third.
  • MR. THOMPSONS Gentlemen, the Empire Club of Canada is again honoured by the presence of a Dominion Cabinet Minister; on this occasion we are privileged to have with us the Minister of National Defense for Air The Development of Air Power In Canada
  • Inspired, however, by the spirit of hereditary obstinacy, Charles preferred a useless resistance to a dignified submission, and, by a series of idle bravadoes, laid the French court under the necessity of arresting their late ally, and sending him to close confinement in the Bastille, from which he was afterwards sent out of the French dominions, much in the manner in which a convict is transported to the place of his destination. Redgauntlet
  • When the Glorious Revolution deposed James in 1689, rebellions in Massachusetts and New York overthrew the Dominion of New England and unseated the proprietary government in Maryland.
  • With no one to keep the burning braziers lit, these, too, burn out soon after, and the entire palace grows dark, cold, and empty of any movement except for the Red Death that ‘held illimitable dominion over all.’
  • The 'Carnatic' was a dominion that extended over the territory that is now included in the Collectorates of Nellore, North Arcot, South The Story of Madras
  • As far as quoting notorious self-hating Jews like Noam Chomsky, yimakh shmo, and that great but thankfully deceased champion of Arab dominion, Eddie Said, such verbiage will only appeal to the ignorant. Could There Be a One-State Solution? - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com
  • He holds all the aces in this year's high-stakes interdominion slugfest.
  • The Dominion reveals Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC) decided to replace the leadership of Barriere Lake First Nation, which officials considered "dogmatized," with a chief and council offering "improved collaboration. The Dominion: All Stories
  • First, that all marchants of the sayd kingdomes and countreys may come into our kingdome of England, and any where else into our dominion with their marchandises whatsoeuer safely and securely vnder our defence and protection without paying wharfage, pontage, or pannage. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
  • The observations above suggest that, whilst he may have been correct in writing about a decline in donnish dominion in the universities, he was over-hasty in proclaiming an end to that dominion.
  • And forces with an interest in subverting the sanity of this Dominion may be readying themselves to celebrate that anniversary.
  • Our country's dominion is very vast.
  • Not, however, because we are too strong and proud, lusting for global dominion.
  • I cherished the symbols of dominion so soon to be objects of ridicule or subjects of parody - the plonk of the cricket ball, the stamp of the sentry's boot, the hymns and the silly rituals that spoke of old certitudes.
  • Schaeffer and other premillennialists picked up themes of dominionism from the postmillennialist Rushdoony, and adapted them to premillennial theology.
  • For some it was enough to attain dominion over other rulers, in effect establishing satellite or vassal states.
  • To further empower corporate dominion over nation-states, it gives private corporations and investors ‘legal standing’ to sue sovereign governments.
  • They truly believe they have dominion over us.
  • Realmes, lands & dominions hath bene of old times hitherto continued nor nothing by our said soueraigne Lord the king or his people to be attempted or done whereby such amities by reason of any dissensions, enemities or discords might be broken: by the aduise of the Lords spintuall & temporall & of the comons of his said Realme of England, assembled in this present The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
  • Chapter 1's command that humanity "subdue" the earth and "have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moves upon the earth" now yields to chapter 2's description of Adam's mission "to dress . . . and to keep" the garden of Eden. Mother superior
  • I have felt my intellect lose dominion, and learned that I was only a garmented beast, for all the many inventions very like the other beasts ungarmented. The Kempton-Wace Letters
  • To consider work and the worker in the light of humanity's dominion over the earth goes to the very heart of the ethical and social question.
  • The British North America Act created the Dominion of Canada by 1867.
  • III. therefore, chap. 37. the exportation of gum senega from his majesty’s dominions in Africa was confined to Great Britain, and was subjected to all the same restrictions, regulations, forfeitures, and penalties, as that of the enumerated commodities of the British colonies in America and the West Indies. VIII. Book IV. Conclusion of the Mercantile System
  • It's a non-conscious process, " said Tom Cash, a psychologist at Old Dominion University. "They assume that more attractive people have an array of valued characteristics.
  • So he began Know then, O Commander of the Faithful (Allah prolong to thee glory and dominion!), the report of the folk; that I am known as the Lazybones and that my father left me nothing, is true; for he was, as thou hast said, nothing but a barber-cupper in a Hammam. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • Come from your dominions of decay; gather to greet the enemies who mock you. NIGHT SISTERS
  • The root of the word is liber, meaning free, something we Americans believe we have a special dominion over. Shira Levine: Jesus Was a Commie: An Interview With Matthew Modine
  • There can be no doubt from the relation sent, as to the attitude of the king of China; for the three greatest magistrates whom he has in the province and dominion of Oquen (to which belongs the province of Chiencho) -- that is, the viceroy, the inspector-general and the eunuch -- write this, each one of them, in two letters, one of which is for the said archbishop and the other for the said governor of these islands. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 14 of 55 1606-1609 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of The Catholic Missions, As Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing
  • All states and dominions which hold or have held sway over mankind are either republics or monarchies.
  • In order to do that we believe the right way to proceed is to try and secure such organization of producers, both in the secondary industries and in the primary industries as will be able to talk to those in other parts of the Empire and agree to a line of development that will not unduly conflict with what is taking place in the other Dominions; to be able to interchange as many products as we can and be sure the ultimate conflict that may take place when we become fully productive, be as long deferred as it possibly can. Australia and the Empire
  • In sum, the rights and consequences of both paternal and despotical dominion are the very same with those of a sovereign by institution; and for the same reasons: which reasons are set down in the precedent chapter. Leviathan
  • For besides the persecuting of the foresaid Thomas archbishop of Canturburie, he would not suffer the legats sent from the pope, to enter within the bounds of his dominion, till they had sworne that they should doo nothing preiudiciall to the customes of his kingdome, neither by prescribing orders, nor any other maner of act or meanes. Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (5 of 12) Henrie the Second
  • Herebie may such as altogither be not blinded plainlie see, that God, by his sentence, hath deiected all woman frome empire and dominion aboue man. The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women.
  • But we in the Dominion of Canada speak of something called Anglo-Saxonism. The West and Canada's Problem
  • Claim your creation, dominion, abundance and joy because they are yours by divine right.
  • Italy; notwithstanding that two hundred years before the Romans became so powerful that the said Tuscans lost the Dominion of that country which today is called Lombardy: which province had been seized by the Gauls, who, moved either by necessity or the sweetness of the fruits, and especially of the wine, came into Discourses
  • The proclamation, which took the form of a fatwa, was endorsed by religious leaders throughout the Sultan's dominions.
  • In terms of taking dominion, we don't - we wouldn't want to - we use the word dominion, but we wouldn't want to say that we have dominion as if we're the owners or we're the rulers of, let's say, the arts and entertainment mountain. NPR Topics: News
  • The spiritual dominions, princedoms, and powers execute the love, knowledge, and power of God relative to the general structure, order, and governance of the cosmos. Archive 2007-09-01
  • Burgundy joined to Provence — a dominion from the German Ocean to the Mediterranean! Anne of Geierstein
  • I then said, that if the motion made by the noble Lord was persisted in, I should most undoubtedly not oppose it, because it was impossible for me to give opposition to any measure which had even the appearance of adding strength to the exclusive rights of Ireland; that I was of opinion myself that the jurisdiction in question was not, by any means whatever, conveyed by the Act referred to; that the statute of Henry VIII. was not intended to affect any part of the King's dominions was clear to a demonstration, from the subsequent statute of the same King in explanation of it -- the preamble of which, referring to the former Act, does expressly speak of treasons committed out of this realm, _and other the King's dominions_; and that the circumstance of the adoption of the former Act by the Irish Memoirs of the Courts and Cabinets of George the Third From the Original Family Documents, Volume 1 (of 2)
  • Feast of Dedication, also known as the Feast of Lights or by its transliterated Hebrew name of Rome, Jerusalem came under the dominion of a family of Idumaeans. CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]
  • Dominions, they make a decoction or drinke, which is in the stead of Wine to them, and generally sold in all their tappe houses, called by the name of _Caova_; _Paludanus_ saith _Chaova_, and All About Coffee
  • Our cousins across the line, with their population of one hundred million, are still forlornly looking for the great American novel, and remembering the age and character of this Dominion I very much doubt if you will ever have the great Canathan novel, for the author of any such master-piece would have to have the geographical restlessness of a Casey Jones and the lyric fervour of an Archibald Lampman and the diligence of an Arnold Bennett and the humour of a Cervantes and the realism of a Zola and the fantasticism. of a Wilson MacDonald and the scholarship of a Charles G. The Interpreters of Canada
  • For uncounted centuries the goal of tanjian adepts was to form Shuken, the Dominion. FLOATING CITY
  • All, I may remind you, a reflection of sea power and of the immense importance of the dominant role played by His Majesty's navies from the homeland and from the Dominion of Canada. The Plans Unfold
  • To foreign dominions, which belong to a prince who succeeds to the throne of England, this Court has no power to send any writ of any kind.
  • For he created all things that they might have being; and the generative powers of the world are healthsome, and there is no poison of destruction in them, nor hath Hades royal dominion upon earth: for righteousness is immortal. Select Masterpieces of Biblical Literature
  • But they are also fully aware that all the powers and dominions of the earth are arrayed against them and regularly torment them.
  • And by thy sword shalt thou live, and shalt serve thy brother; and it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the dominion, that thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck. Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences
  • The Republic is a dominion of the Brazilian people.
  • Ladies of the dominion dressed in full-length gowns that touched the floor.
  • The supreme God is a Being eternal, infinite, absolutely perfect; but a being, however perfect, without dominion, cannot be said to be Lord God. Isaac Newton 
  • The two exist in the same space, both geographically and intellectually, Palestine and Israel, homelands of the dispossessed, holy lands of mosque and synagogue, inimically opposed it seems because each claims dominion in the name of their God. Bin Laden's Speech - Part One
  • Princes] _shall be strong above him, and have dominion; his dominion shall be a great dominion_. Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John
  • Indeed, with this powerful haptic and aural dimensions, it dethrones the classic dominion of ‘sight’ (with its correlatives of omniscience and surveillance).
  • Very important were the relationships with Venice and with the signories of Malatesta and De Polenta, before the dominion of Papal State, from 1509 to 1859.
  • Day 6, I was filled with fantasies of my new child-free life, a life of travel, financial laissez-faire, and total dominion over my own space.
  • Constantius soon experienced the truth of the prediction which honest indignation had extorted from his injured lieutenant, that as long as such maxims of government were suffered to prevail, the emperor himself would find it is no easy task to defend his eastern dominions from the invasion of a foreign enemy. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
  • Hall is relying on the West Australian runner to launch his bid for interdominion history.
  • He suffered damage to his heels in last Sunday's interdominion final.
  • Among the besieged was a monk named Schmidt, probably one of the Low-country men to whom the Franche Comté was then a sort of home, as forming part of the dominions of Spain; and this monk was the most active supporter of the defence, against the large party within the walls which was anxious to render the town. Ice-Caves of France and Switzerland
  • Soon the whole country was under his sole dominion.
  • It testifies that women are daily gaining in self-reliance; that the methodical training their minds receive to fit them for professions and for business positions, tends to render them, even in general matters, more accurate in conception, more precise in execution, less under the dominion of the sudden impulse and instinct, more capable of reasoning, and of judging of things as reason, unimpassionedly, presents them. Womanliness as a Profession
  • There's bad news for the bookies heading into tonight's radically changed interdominion heats.
  • He is in any case at thy mercy and the slain of thy sword, if his wife be not found in thy dominions; and whensoever thou desireth his presence, I can bring him back to thee. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • Just as oil and water do not mix, neither do art and life: They are separate and sovereign dominions that coexist without mixing, each with its own idiosyncrasies, values, and morality.
  • Back at the ranch, burgers and dogs are fired up, a keg of Old Dominion Pale Ale is tapped and points are tallied.
  • No, there had always been routes through from Earth into the Dominions, other than that at the Retreat.
  • Dallas's oil and gas barons who routinely denounced JFK as a "comsymp" had unbottled the genie of populist rage and harnessed it to the cause of radical ideology, anti-government fervor and corporate dominion. Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: Tucson: Time for Another Examination of Conscience
  • From public schools to elementary schools, the history of the empire was still little taught, while for most young people Empire Day meant an extra holiday rather than a commitment to dominion over palm and pine.
  • The chief's son would inherit all his dominions.
  • He told the French ambassadors a month after the arrest that Barneveld had been endeavouring, during and since the Truce negotiations, to bring back the Provinces, especially Holland, if not under the dominion of, at least under some kind of vassalage to Spain. Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland : with a view of the primary causes and movements of the Thirty Years' War, 1618
  • Their dominions were bounded by the Adriatic and the Tigris; and the whole interval of twenty-five days’ navigation, which separated the extreme cold of Scythia from the torrid zone of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
  • Acceptance - learning to live within the dominions of your entire person - is the ultimate goal.
  • In an essay last month, Director of Research and Reconstructionist American Vision and son-in-law of Gary North Joel McDurmon drew lines between "traditional dominion theology" and that which the NAR embraces, basically arguing that Reconstructionists' view of dominion is a "bottom-up" transformation preceded by a postmillennial transformation of the world through evangelism. Julie Ingersoll: C. Peter Wagner: Dominion Theology And Postmillennialism On NPR
  • The supreme God is a Being eternal, infinite, absolutely perfect; but a being, however perfect, without dominion, cannot be said to be Lord God. Isaac Newton 
  • European powers no longer rule over great overseas dominions.
  • -- At the close of the seventeenth century, a new dawn arose in the history of Italian letters, and the general corruption which had extended to every branch of literature and paralyzed the Italian mind began to be arrested by the appearance of writers of better taste; the affectations of the Marinists and of the so-called Arcadian poets were banished from literature; science was elevated and its dominion extended, the melodrama, comedy, and tragedy recreated, and a new spirit infused into every branch of composition. Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities
  • France held undisputed dominion over vast areas of Africa
  • All activities by which we shape and maintain our world, in all of its many complexities, also are an expression of the power of dominion over the world.
  • And whereas some have attributed the dominion to the man only, as being of the more excellent sex, they misreckon in it. Leviathan
  • The British Government and the Governments of the Dominions are furnishing dollar for dollar-or the British Government more-towards putting British migrants into Empire territories instead of having them dispersed all over foreign nations in adventurous fields of investment and settlement. The Ties of Empire
  • England and Spain were, he declared, at peace, and no official could deny an Englishman the right to travel peaceably in Spanish dominions, unless a law expressly excluded them. Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea
  • The last two lines of the second verse stated that the Father had entrusted to Christ, as His right, "absolute dominion over the peoples" Cui iure sceptrum gentium Pater supremum credidit. The Reign of Christ the King
  • It was his heavier leg, the biosynthetic prosthesis that he had been stuck with since the Battle of AR-558 during the Dominion War. Star Trek The Next Generation®
  • Humans can labour with their hands and brains, can plan and develop productive techniques, and have amassed centuries of culture and knowledge that have enabled them to control and hold dominion over the rest of nature.
  • Both writers describe natural, divine and civil checks upon the power of the sovereign who must respect the natural dominion of his subjects.
  • Venice, Zante, Candie, and Zephalonia, and other the dominions of the Segniorie and State of Venice, and thereby haue made and mainteyned, and doe make and continually maintains diuers good shippes with mariners skilfull and fitte and necessarie for our seruice: and doe vent out of our Realme into those partes diuerse commodities of our Realme, and returne hither into our sayde Realme many good and necessarie commodities for the common wealth thereof: The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
  • So far as I can perceive, the "Christian dog" is no more the slave of his word than the True Believer, and I think the savage -- allowing for the fact that his inveracity has dominion over fewer things -- as great a liar as either of them. A Cynic Looks at Life
  • Though she was taken in tow by the steam tug Dominion, she was filling rapidly and in two hours, before they reached water shallow enough to beach her, the tow had to be cast off.
  • Expectations that wild animals be seen and not heard, that they not get too close, reveal that we still believe we hold dominion over animals and nature.
  • They have with them an unutterable glory of conscious power, the magnificence of a perfect, God-given nature, such a haughty spirit of rivalless dominion as might have swelled the soul of a Jewish queen, monarch of Israel, ruler of God's chosen people in the day of their unbroken pride, when she felt that none greater than herself dwelt upon the globe. The Continental Monthly, Vol III, Issue VI, June, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
  • (the term "abortifacient birth control" is a codephrase in the dominionist "pro-life" community for hormonal birth control -- partly due to a unique urban legend claiming "the pill" and other hormonal birth control causes abortion and partly because of a unique definition of pregnancy beginning at conception rather than at implantation (the latter is what most mainstream OB / GYNs use) and thus making anything preventing implantation potentially "abortifacient"). Scams
  • It is sometimes said by those who should know better that there was no intention to give such great-powers to the Province or Dominion, and that the B.N. A. Act was passed as it were in inadvertence. Some Remarks on the Constitution of Canada and the United States
  • They truly believe they have dominion over us.
  • Moreover, he hath seven daughters, who in valour and prowess equal and even excel their sisters,66 and he hath made the eldest of them, the damsel whom thou sawest,67 queen over the country aforesaid and who is the wisest of her sisters and in valour and horsemanship and craft and skill and magic excels all the folk of her dominions. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • Under the Ottoman dominion Patras became the capital of the pashalik of Morea, and underwent severe trials. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip
  • But since the apostle not only takes this "delighting" from the other part of him, but likewise attributes it to the power of warring against that inward man and overcoming him, it is evident that the restriction has been added on this account -- to shew that, in the man who is now the subject of discussion, "the inward man" has not the dominion, but is, in fact, the inferior. The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 2
  • This time, in an almost seamless transition, the depot is relocating to the Dominion Shell station at the corner of Fifth and Princess.
  • So, the term dominion shouldn't be obscure at best to your students. Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
  • Behold, thy dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of heaven from above; and by thy sword shalt thou live, and shalt serve thy brother: and it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the dominion, that thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck. Genesis 27.
  • That was indeed the weak point now of all his defences against whatever commands might be put upon him by his master, as we may now call the vampyre, although after all it was but the usual dominion of a strong mind over a weak one, for there was not so much in reality for the sexton to be afraid of as his own guilty conscience dictated to him. Varney the vampire; or, The feast of blood. Volume 3
  • After that, the interdominion carnival looms.
  • But the Barbarians were finally repulsed; the country became every day less favorable to the operations of cavalry; and when the Romans arrived at Macepracta, they perceived the ruins of the wall, which had been constructed by the ancient kings of Assyria, to secure their dominions from the incursions of the Medes. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
  • The former prefect of Bajor, the man who had killed millions of Bajorans during the Occu-pation, the filth who had taken Kira's mother from her family, and the man responsible for the Dominion/Cardassian alliance that led to years of bloody con-flict. Demons Of Air And Darkness
  • The Hobbit is set in a time "between the dawn of Faerie and the Dominion of Men," and follows the quest of home-loving Bilbo Baggins to win his share of the treasure guarded by the dragon, Smaug. It's Official - Guillermo del Toro Directing The Hobbit! « FirstShowing.net
  • The conclusion which he arrives at flows from his application of the concept of adverse dominion, and that by dint of adverse dominion, the claimants obtained the right to all of the resources.
  • Here also I first tasted pulque; and on a first impression it appears to me, that as nectar was the drink in Olympus, we may fairly conjecture that Pluto cultivated the maguey in his dominions. Life in Mexico, During a Residence of Two Years in That Country
  • Thoughts conceived under the dominion of that spell are often realized; but we then attribute their pre-vision to a power we call presentiment, -- an inexplicable power, but a real one, -- which our passions find accommodating, like a flatterer who, among his many lies, does sometimes tell the truth. The Chouans
  • From the highest to the lowest in rank, the orders are seraphim, cherubim, thrones, dominions, virtues, powers, principalities, archangels, and angels.
  • When the Greek communities became decadent they fell under foreign dominion; Rome imperialized the republic, but never forgot how to rule well in her municipalities; the Germans passed on their democratic ways to the English, and from that source they were brought to America. Society Its Origin and Development
  • There are two other dominionist sects within evangelicalism that have escaped in-depth scrutiny from the Left. Theocratic Sect Prays for Real Armageddon
  • From the earliest historical period of Rome there existed, indeed, several associations of free craftsmen, called collegia, which later on were extended to most of the countries that were under the Roman dominion. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent
  • All of these numerous territories are full of confusion since each contain electorates, duchies, bishoprics, dominions of margraves, landgraves, princes and free cities - all jumbled together.
  • The union leadership has bolstered this tactic by placing control of their respective territorial dominions ahead of the welfare of the union membership.
  • But as in windy weather the tapers were more wasted -- to remedy this inconvenience, he placed them in a kind of lanthorn, there being no glass to be met with in his dominions. Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance
  • In support of the latter, he quotes Richard Hooker -- no radical, but a "profoundly traditional" churchman: "Where the lawe doth give dominion, who doubteth that the King who receiveth it is under the lawe? OpEdNews - OpEdNews.Com Progressive, Tough Liberal News and Opinion
  • (M259) The dominions of Herod Antipas were transferred to Herod Agrippa, who had already obtained from Caligula the tetrarchate of Ituræa, on the death of Philip, with the title of king. Ancient States and Empires
  • America, he noted, has ‘achieved a degree of power in the contemporary world community which dwarfs the dominions of the empires of the past’.
  • Alexander held dominion over a vast area.
  • Soon your typical homestead shall be exchanged for your antitypical home; and we shall unite in the home-song of everlasting joy, -- the song of, "unto Him that loved us and washed us in His own blood, to Him be praise and glory and dominion forever! The Christian Home
  • a commissioner to the French commander, to ask by what right he was building forts in English dominions; and also to treat with the Boys' Book of Famous Soldiers
  • Wherefore he dwelleth in a home most rich in flocks by the fair-flowing lake of Bœbe; and to the tillage of his fields, and the extent of his plains, toward that dusky _part of the heavens_, where the sun stays his horses, makes the clime of the Molossians the limit, and holds dominion as far as the portless shore of the Ægean Sea at Pelion. The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I.
  • He very nearly took the risk of running the horse in the Interdominion semifinal.
  • Tribunal in more than one part of his German dominions; and that, in consequence, instead of submitting to their doom with reverent resignation, children of the cord have been found bold enough to resist the executioners of the Vehme, striking, wounding, and even slaying those who have received commission to put them to death. Anne of Geierstein
  • But when they thought themselves happily settled, intelligence was sent to Mr. Bertie, that it had been contrived in England to seize them there; whereby they were obliged on a sudden to haste to a s town called Winheim, in the Palsgrave's dominions, where they staid till their necessaries began to fail; and then it providentially happened, that Sigismund II. Collins's peerage of England; genealogical, biographical, and historical
  • Alexander the Great held dominion over a vast area.
  • It tempers temper, quells hatred and dissolves fear, bringing a deeper sense of dominion and happiness to our lives.
  • In Egypt it was at first the Scorpion, first zodiacal sign after Libra, and for a long time chief of the winter signs; then it was the Bear, or the polar Ass, called Typhon, that is to say, deluge, ** on account of the rains which deluge the earth during the dominion of that star. The Ruins, or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires and the Law of Nature
  • The sexy singer was horrified by the incident at London's Dominion Theatre on Friday night.
  • When her proud pretensions are baffled, and her vain towering hopes of an absolute and universal dominion brought to nought, and she appears not to have been so strong and considerable as she would have been thought to be, then to see the nakedness of the land do they come, and it appears ridiculous. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
  • These were especially common in the south of France, and it is characteristic of the organizing power of the Normans that they, in their passion for system, refused to admit so unfeudal a conception within their dominions, so that to this day in England there is technically no such absolute ownership of land possible. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent
  • Thetide aequor, umbras Aeaco, coelum Jove: and hath not so much possession as dominion. Anatomy of Melancholy
  • You grit your teeth in pride as the machine roars to terrible life, proclaiming your dominion over all who dare to get in your way.
  • In the affluent society, the authorities are hardly forced to justify their dominion.
  • It is thought that the great change, which made the Roman mass into the elaborate rite it became, is due to the influence, at the end of the eighth century, of Charles the Great, who with the determination of a ruler and the interest of a liturgiologist made one rite to be observed throughout his dominions, but enriched the Gregorian book with details and ceremonies derived from uses already common in France. The Church and the Barbarians Being an Outline of the History of the Church from A.D. 461 to A.D. 1003
  • As masters of the third dimension you have dominion over its energies of form and creation.
  • While we don't have that same connection to England today as we did in 1942 when we were known in the empire as the Dominion of Canada, we are still buying their scrapyard castoffs such as the submarines one of which being the Chicoutimi which is being shipped from capable shipyards in Halifax to shipyards in Victoria, B.C. because the Conservatives are more likely to win seats there than here. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
  • Without speaking disparagingly of the city of Ottawa, we all know that the government of our country have expended a considerable amount of money in beautifying the city, the driveway and other things having been constructed by reason of it being the Capital of our noble Dominion. Good Citizenship
  • The cells reduced all other species to near elimination, and established dominion over the corporeal plane of the entity.
  • The late 19th century saw a repetition of this process in the white dominions of Canada and Australasia.
  • From the highest to the lowest in rank, the orders are seraphim, cherubim, thrones, dominions, virtues, powers, principalities, archangels, and angels.
  • As we have before mentioned, the law did not deliver us from the power of sin; but after grace came by Jesus Christ we are not under the law, but under grace, and where sin once abounded, that is, had power or dominion, grace now much more abounds; therefore sin has no dominion over us. The Gospel Day Or, the Light of Christianity
  • This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being. Isaac Newton 
  • Some European overseas empires, most notably the British, made a pretty firm distinction between the core modern state and the colonies, dominions, and protectorates that made up the empire.

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