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He cited Philippine national hero Jose Rizal’s description of justice “as the foremost virtue of the civilizing races. It subdues the barbarous nations while injustice arouses the weakest.”

Their engineering subdues torrential floods from heavy rains or snowmelt by slowing water.

“Enforced disappearance to political prison camps continues to epitomize a system of governance that subdues and controls rather than represents the people,” the U.N. chief said.

Nathan, a rich Jewish trader, is wooed by Salah ad-Din to shore up the city’s treasury after the sultan subdues the Christian crusaders, sparing one, played with amusing energy by Drew Kopas.

One portrays White police officers whose hair-trigger deployment of a Taser subdues a Black teen who seems to pose absolutely no threat; in fact he appears submissive.