He paused, and his eyes fell upon the Hufflepuff table. Theirs had been the most subdued table before he had gotten to his feet, and theirs were still the saddest and palest faces in the Hall.
He did say that there might've — I mean there was some indication there were perhaps some people injured by tear gas and other measures that were taken by police in order to subdue this gunman.
From here, William and the Normans spread their influence all over Anglo-Saxon England, putting down revolts, replacing earls with his own barons and crucially building lots of castles to dominate and subdue the locals.
But I must recover myself; the contemplation of it, even at this distance of time, has taken away my breath and my grammar, and unless I subdue my emotion, my spelling will go too.
Outer-coast transients appear to have developed specialised strategies-such as the repeated battering and drowning of grey whale calves-because their prey is bigger and takes more time to subdue.
This is your care oh Rome, subdue the whole world for your empire, these are your arts to establish the order of peace to spare the vanquished and to humble the haughty.