Clearly I needed a less lethal way of subduing my quarry.

It was a fine, ringing voice, unaccustomed to subduing its tone.

But the need for soldiers instead of relief workers usually means the humanitarian crisis cannot be solved without subduing military conflict first.

They jumped off their horses, giving up all hope of subduing the beasts, and started to run blindly.

After the subduing of resistance, Bate took over and garrisoned a fort with 300 men.

Strangulation techniques may also be used for non-lethal subduing of an opponent.

The report does not mention whether the officers sat or kneeled on his chest and neck, a common procedure for subduing violent people.

They were so arrogant that, except for subduing their own hinterland, they had no will to empire.

In the confusion, no one had taken the sword and scabbard from the ground where they'd tossed it while subduing Colin.

A Venetian expedition aimed at pacifying and subduing them was largely unsuccessful.

He received the help he needed and in the next three months showed his superb generalship by totally subduing the island.

He notified all the zamindars to assist the faujdar in subduing Sitaram.

But he pointed out that the need for such hormonal subduing could be even greater in humans than it is in rodents.

Aarn, his iron nerves alone subduing the trembling that crept into them, pressed a series of controls.

Eliot, who says that while the reader works at subduing the difficulty of a poem, the poem is doing its emotional work on him.

That they are punished, is because the fear of punishment is the only means of subduing evils in this state.

In subduing the movement, Government death squads and the army killed perhaps 50,000 Sri Lankans.

Mr. Geiser performs like a set designer intent on subduing rather than seducing his audience.

But merely subduing Dimitri did not end Paulin's agony.

Moving on its own treads was no machine intended for the subduing of land or forest, but one for the destruction of men.

The inkblot strategy is a military strategy for subduing a large hostile region with a relatively small military force.

As news of atrocities committed in subduing the Philippines arrived in the United States, support for the war flagged.

Rajgir: Place of the subduing of Nalagiri, the angry elephant, through friendliness.

Under his leadership in 1920 the Polish army halted the march of the Bolsheviks, who were intent on subduing the whole of Europe.

After subduing the crooks, Muggs and the boys deliver them to Capt. Mathews at police headquarters.

He has been especially subdued in the last few days.

Public interest in the King's return has been subdued here.

But in a few minutes the two boys had him subdued.

She was subdued to suddenly find herself alone without any of her people.

The police came in and who did they have to subdue?

George had been very quiet and subdued all the morning.

Was this one of the species that had subdued him?

The ship itself, by my men, had already been subdued.

He had been subdued and silent all during the day.

"They could have subdued him with gas or something," she said.

The words seemed dragged out of me, my voice subdued.

He was subdued now, talking not at all, and meeting no one's eyes.

"Our only chance is to wait for them to subdue the fire."

Everyone was subdued after that, even the most active among the children.

But the old man had been unusually subdued these last few days.

He probably resisted a little, and needed to be subdued.

It will probably take a good deal of power to subdue them.

Make trouble, and we have the means to subdue you.

But it worked: in 1985, the greatest part of the south had been subdued.

After more than a year of hard campaign, he finally subdued the patriots.

Having finally subdued him, Jackie goes to call the police in the next room.

I think that is why it took them so long to subdue me.

A few fans ran onto the field but were subdued.

Even the fact that her husband is the king of a great country does not subdue the fear.

David was in process of subduing the town to memory.