(v. t.) To reduce to slavery; to make a slave of; to subject to a dominant influence.
Example Sentences:
(1) They fit with his continuation of the regime’s systemic human rights abuses, its pitiless prison labour camp system including enslavement, forced abortions and systemic rape, its abductions and foreign hostage-taking, and its aggressive defiance of its neighbours.
(2) "The feudals have enslaved the people for generations," he says.
(3) Thoreau's recognitions endeared him to the revolutionaries of the 1960s: he saw the violence behind the established order, the enslaving nature of private property, and - a trend even stronger now than 40 years ago - the media's substitution of "the news" for private reality.
(4) The first time you use these drugs they damage you, and if you become enslaved to drugs, your life will be destroyed,” he said.
(5) Did the rape, enslavement and summary execution of thousands of people and the murder of hostages not give it away?
(6) An emotional Obama ran through a litany of Isis human-rights abuses, from rape to enslavement, calling them “cowardly acts of violence.” In a vague reference to Americans held captive by Isis or near its path in Iraq, Obama said the US would “do everything we can to protect our people,” a formulation that has preceded US military action in the past.
(7) You list decapitations, mutilations, rapes, defenestrations and sex enslavements.
(8) "It is not unusual for people who have been 'rescued' to psychologically identify with their enslavers."
(9) In the Gulf, the International Trade Union Confederation estimates that 2.4 million domestic workers are enslaved (pdf).
(10) We see it in the people who have forgotten their encounter with the Lord ... in those who depend completely on their here and now, on their passions, whims and manias, in those who build walls around themselves and become enslaved to the idols that they have built with their own hands.” 7) Being rivals or boastful.
(11) Poland, however, was "enslaved" by Moscow and he is unabashed about his purpose, lecturing British and Nato military officers about Poland's wartime past, about its home army, the biggest non-communist guerrilla movement in Europe fighting the Nazis.
(12) There were incredible acts of bravery that helped ensure that this and other nations were not enslaved.
(13) In 2014, a UN report found that the North Korean terror machine was without contemporary parallel, with enslavement, forced labour, torture, rape, compulsory abortions, collective punishment and executions.
(14) It calculated that more than 4% of North Korea’s population is enslaved, with Uzbekistan and Qatar the other countries with the highest prevalence of modern slavery per capita.
(15) If power corrupts, powerful inequality indebts and ultimately enslaves.
(16) When one woman tapped her on the shoulder and requested the singer stop, Madonna is reported to have remarked: "It's for business … enslaver!"
(17) This leaves the men and women effectively working for pennies, while simultaneously ensuring they remain reliant on the people enslaving them.
(18) As Blair of all people understood, political parties die when they become enslaved to a dogma.
(19) It’s no mystery where these assumptions came from: if you enslave people, break up their families, humiliate, brutalize and denigrate them and spend far more on their incarceration than their education, then the mere prospect of them reaching their full human potential will strike fear in you.
(20) Abraham Lincoln gave speeches about the civil war in which he said, in essence, "We've brought this on ourselves by enslaving Americans."
Thew
Definition:
(n.) Manner; custom; habit; form of behavior; qualities of mind; disposition; specifically, good qualities; virtues.
(n.) Muscle or strength; nerve; brawn; sinew.
Example Sentences:
(1) Using the photometric micromethod of Niesel and Thews the authors determined the oxygen fixation blood curves at 20 degrees C and at CO2 tension of 38 mm Hg in newborn piglests until 71 days post partum.
(2) It is also decisive for the extent of thew examination that it isrestricted to the search for such developmental disturbances as can be remedied effectively...
(3) Finally, the parameters used to describe the stopped flow results can also be used to simulate quantitatively O2 uptake time courses obtained from previous studies with thin films of red cells (Sinha, A. K. (1969) Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, San Francisco; Thews, G. (1959) Arch.
(4) 4 min: Some said the People's Team would play with five at the back, but they appear to have deployed an ambitious 4-3-3 formation and on thew few occassions that they've had the ball so far they have shown a commendable willingness to attack.
(5) An improved modification of the photometric micro-method according to Niesel and Thews is described, which employs the diffusion principle.
(6) From the measured values O2-saturation, standard-bicarbonate, buffer bases and base excess have been calculated by the Thews nomogram.
(7) He thew out an initial treatment employing flashbacks.
(8) The possibility of a low gastric pH and the resultant pulmonary damage if aspirated must be considered in the initial care of thew newborn with poor muscle tone or reflex activity as well as in the anesthetic management of neonates undergoing emergency surgery.
(9) From the measured values for arterial oxygen and carbon dioxide partial pressures, blood pH, and hemoglobin, values for oxygen saturation, standard bicarbonates, buffer abases, and base excess were calculated using the Thews nomogram.
(10) In the present investigation the effect of smoking on the airways was studied in a group of 25 persons aged 20-25 years by determining the closing volume and differences in ventilatory distribution (Thews method).
(11) Michelle Thew, at the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection, said: "The UK is one of the largest users of animals in experiments but legislation makes it one of the most secretive in Europe.