subjugation

Examples of subjugated

subjugated

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Finally, public health working was being dominated, even subjugated, at policy and practice levels by the power of the 'bio-medical' model.
The step by step visual encapsulates women's sense of being subjugated in this society and resonates in other women's responses.
Local initiatives in development were subjugated to increased state control.
Highlanders were particularly fearful of being politically subjugated and economically exploited by the lowlanders.
Others view the new political set-up as the free association of formerly subjugated peoples, the only firm foundation for a democratic, sturdy and stable state.
While such socially- and emotionally-defined experiences are subjugated in the dominant discourse, they are the primary themes in older women's accounts.
But again, the layers of organization and activity devoted to this must also be subjugated to the needs of patient and public health.
She therefore applies the hermeneutic/dialogic method of understanding to give voice to a set of subjugated truth claims.
Under stateless or nearly stateless conditions, individuals subjugated themselves and expressed allegiance to leaders voluntarily.
Midwives as the traditional primary birth attendants were discredited, and women subjugated within the institutional machine of the hospital.
First, the purpose of medical ethics, so to speak, is to protect individuals from each other and from institutions - from being ignored or subjugated by others.
In applied linguistics, the questioning of unity is usually construed through objections to autonomous monolingual language policies imposed on a variety of hierarchically demoralized and subjugated linguistic minorities.
Their interest is in how languages are used to legitimize, challenge and negotiate specific identities, and to open new identity options for groups and individuals who are subjugated.
For economic purposes to be legitimate for professionalism, they too must be subjugated to the extent that no self-promotion occurs unless it is in the service of professionalism.
Additionally, social actors, however they are vertically categorised by the 'dominant' culture, do not always view themselves as subjugated.
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