(n.) Sovereign or supreme authority; the power of governing and controlling; independent right of possession, use, and control; sovereignty; supremacy.
(n.) Superior prominence; predominance; ascendency.
(n.) That which is governed; territory over which authority is exercised; the tract, district, or county, considered as subject; as, the dominions of a king. Also used figuratively; as, the dominion of the passions.
(n.) A supposed high order of angels; dominations. See Domination, 3.
Example Sentences:
(1) One exception to this rule is France, which once counted the Central African Republic amongst its dominions.
(2) The Dominions of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa have assented to the new legislation, and the Free State Dail meets to-day.
(3) Thus, individual preganglionic axons do not require exclusive dominion over a particular part of a postsynaptic cell in order to maintain their connection with the cell.
(4) The Court upheld Pennsylvania's law defining medical emergency, as construed by the Court of Appeals; allowed a 24-hour waiting period for women who must 1st hear information about pregnancy and abortion to insure thoughtful informed consent; allowed a parental consent provision, with a judicial bypass; and allowed a recordkeeping and reporting requirement; but disallowed a spousal notification requirement, noting that "[a] State may not give to a man the kind of dominion over his wife that parents exercise over their children."
(5) A news helicopter hovered overhead, along with a swarm of television news trucks in what is ordinarily a tranquil meadow in a large, wooded section within sight of a roller coaster at the Kings Dominion amusement park along Interstate 95.
(6) Fortunes were made by the likes of Rockefeller, Mellon and Carnegie, living standards rose and, in 1890, the US Bureau of Census announced that there was no longer a frontier – the US, its laws and its dominion stretched "from sea to shining sea".
(7) The idea of taxing anybody on this "remittance basis" was introduced when income tax was first imposed - in 1799 - in order to allow those who owned land in his majesty's dominions to escape tax on their colonial wealth unless they brought it back to England.
(8) Some contentious issues may be clarified if this area of human dominion, namely control over genetic expression among offspring, is acknowledged to be the legitimate persisting concern of those who have produced sperm and ova after storage commences.
(9) It also insists that exercising the dominion granted to humankind in Genesis means tilling “ the whole Earth ”, transforming it “from wilderness to garden and ultimately to garden city”.
(10) When I met Boris in his office, the nucleus of his dominion, I glanced at his library.
(11) Ukip's total victory has transformed the electoral landscape for ever, from a world of three-party politics to a single-party dominion set to last 500,000 years.
(12) Mastery is a human response to difficult or stressful circumstances in which competency, control, and dominion have been gained over the experience of stress.
(13) Thomas Jefferson believed that the constitution should expire after 19 years, so that the dead would not have dominion over the living.
(14) But with the results out of the way, and the first chapter of what promises to be a long-running accounting inquiry complete, new boss Dave Lewis feels it is now safe to leave the country, at least for a couple of days, to inspect his dominion.
(15) This is in response to an increasingly aggressive China, which claims dominion over vast areas of the Pacific that the US considers international waters, and has alarmed smaller Asian neighbours by reigniting old territorial disputes, including confrontations over the South China Sea.
(16) If men turned away from "softness, play, emotional connection, all the so-called feminine attributes", society would reward the traditional man, if not with material wealth and political prominence, at least with dominion over wife and children.
(17) Another is the Canzuk concept, the dream of a free trade and free movement zone between the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand – three nations from what used to be called the “white dominions”.
(18) Nine of 25 runners in the 1989 Old Dominion 100-mile Endurance Race took 800 mg of cimetidine 1 hr before the start and at 50 miles.
(19) They hit hard, as if their aim was to establish an "illimitable dominion over all".
(20) As Rick Santorum explained at an energy summit in Colorado : "We were put on this Earth as creatures of God to have dominion over the Earth … for our benefit not for the Earth's benefit."
Domino
Definition:
(n.) A kind of hood worn by the canons of a cathedral church; a sort of amice.
(n.) A mourning veil formerly worn by women.
(n.) A kind of mask; particularly, a half mask worn at masquerades, to conceal the upper part of the face. Dominos were formerly worn by ladies in traveling.
(n.) A costume worn as a disguise at masquerades, consisting of a robe with a hood adjustable at pleasure.
(n.) A person wearing a domino.
(n.) A game played by two or more persons, with twenty-eight pieces of wood, bone, or ivory, of a flat, oblong shape, plain at the back, but on the face divided by a line in the middle, and either left blank or variously dotted after the manner of dice. The game is played by matching the spots or the blank of an unmatched half of a domino already played
(n.) One of the pieces with which the game of dominoes is played.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a domino effect, everyone got down, one on top of the other.” A 29-year-old woman described blood and flesh that had been blown on to others.
(2) Domino’s had been in touch with Driscoll on Thursday morning and was “working to make it up to him ... and to ensure he is not out of pocket for any expenses incurred”.
(3) De Blasio's first significant act as mayor was to challenge a development plan for the iconic Domino's Sugar factory in Brooklyn – a typical late-Bloomberg, large-scale building project.
(4) I love it when musicians and their instruments sort of become an entity in themselves – you see it with Nina Simone and Ray Charles as well as Fats Domino.
(5) Scarborough council said leaving the houses standing could cause a domino-effect down the steep slope above the picturesque harbour where the explorer Captain James Cook lodged and learned his seafaring skills.
(6) Driscroll told 3AW that he had not yet received the payment from Domino’s Pizza.
(7) Of course, I am very worried about them.” Separately, at least three people were killed in clashes in the south-western city of Odessa, which has largely resisted the domino effect of pro-Russian separatists taking over Ukrainian cities in the east.
(8) If Italy becomes another domino after a Spanish bailout the anger could be uncontainable (to use a word adopted by Bank of England deputy Paul Tucker in relation to another banking crisis).
(9) It is not known how much Wonga paid for the deal, which includes broadcast, online and mobile sponsorship, but last year's show was sponsored by pizza company Domino's for £1m .
(10) The Domino system and a 1-2 days stay were the preferred options (25 and 24 per cent respectively).
(11) When Domino’s Pizza did not acknowledge or participate in the proceedings, Driscoll was awarded the case by default, with the chain ordered to pay $1,203.27 to cover his legal fees as well as the $37.35 order.
(12) Then there is a domino effect, as reefs fail so will other ecosystems.
(13) The action spread by phone in "a domino effect", stewards said.
(14) On Thursday, Domino’s Australia unveiled a pizza delivery robot in Brisbane.
(15) Domino theorists argue that the impact on the economy, growth and employment would be catastrophic and incalculable.
(16) In what Brown has described as a "domino" strategy, his meetings today with developing countries were planned to produce an agreement about a pledge to curb emissions.
(17) "The more countries that go down this path, the bigger the domino effect.
(18) At the start of this decade Iceland would have made an unlikely candidate for the first sovereign-state domino to fall in the financial meltdown.
(19) An algorithm for the calculation of plausibilities of paternity for the HLA system is presented, which is based on the concept of the game of domino.
(20) … I knew I would be like a domino in the line of fire Christopher Hansen Hansen was at the bar.