hold dominion
Example Sentences
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The other reason to contemplate a cat’s consciousness is that we might learn something about those other creatures over which we now hold dominion — robots.
From New York Times • Aug. 27, 2021
I’ll take down Clarissa AND Eddie AND hold dominion over all of this school.
From New York Times • Apr. 21, 2016
Today, in the once-derelict Northern Quarter, record stores, live venues and sonic-minded galleries and pubs hold dominion.
From New York Times • Apr. 29, 2011
Winston Churchill was a young army officer when Rudyard Kipling was writing about the Lord God of Hosts "beneath whose awful hand we hold dominion over palm and pine."
From Time Magazine Archive
The Moors were therefore a prey to the most galling reflections, and smarting under the bitterest disappointment, at the very time that pleasure and contentment alone seemed to hold dominion in Granada.
From Gómez Arias Or, The Moors of the Alpujarras, A Spanish Historical Romance. by Trueba y Cosío, Joaquín Telesforo de
