dominion
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Traditional European landscape painting, rooted in Poussin and Claude, had always depended on parklike emblems of the Arcadian, or at least on signs of man’s dominion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026
Iran agreed to reopen the vital thoroughfare during the two-week truce, but said it would maintain "dominion" over it.
From Barron's ● Apr. 9, 2026
So it’s not just religion qua religion, or religion and law; it’s really bolted onto ideas of capitalism and the economy and dominion of the world.
From Slate ● Mar. 10, 2026
Lance Wallnau, another Christian evangelical preacher, televangelist, speaker and author, has promoted dominion theology since the early 2000s.
From Salon ● Jul. 11, 2025
The Greeks returned the favor: over the roughly one thousand years of Greco-Roman dominion of Egypt, we have no evidence of any Egyptian word making its way into common Greek usage.
From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro
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Slavery was widespread in ancient Rome and its dominions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Unlike other British dominions, including Canada and New Zealand, Australia never forged a treaty with its original inhabitants.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 28, 2023
And grant that the nations may keep faith with him, and that his counsellors in all his dominions may have peace and love charity.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2023
Australia has no treaty with its Indigenous people, and has done little in comparison to other British dominions like Canada, New Zealand and the United States to include and uplift its First Nations people.
From Reuters ● Jun. 23, 2023
Which she did, and did well, and the dominions on and about Mount Huon prospered and flourished under her command.
From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman
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