dominion
بادشاہت
definition
noun
man's attempt to establish dominion over nature
sovereignty; control.
the Angevin dominions
the territory of a sovereign or government.
example
That is when the state takes 'dominion' over the highways, treating them as their own.
Expectations that wild animals be seen and not heard, that they not get too close, reveal that we still believe we hold 'dominion' over animals and nature.
I was filled with fantasies of my new life, a life of travel, financial laissez-faire, and total 'dominion' over my own space.
man's attempt to establish 'dominion' over nature
In truth they are animated by nothing but their own lust for power and their desire for 'dominion' over others.
All activities by which we shape and maintain our world, in all of its many complexities, also are an expression of the power of 'dominion' over the world.
The revisionists' 'dominion' over the domestic side of Cold War history has been even more total.
But of course, not everything in the garden is lovely, and there are times when nature's 'dominion' over the humble gardener can be infuriating.
You grit your teeth in pride as the machine roars to terrible life, proclaiming your 'dominion' over all who dare to get in your way.
Those who advocate corporate 'dominion' over broadband services dismiss the notion that consumer choice will be curtailed.
To consider work and the worker in the light of humanity's 'dominion' over the earth goes to the very heart of the ethical and social question.
To further empower corporate 'dominion' over nation-states, it gives private corporations and investors ‘legal standing’ to sue sovereign governments.
We have 'dominion' over the plants, the animals, the trees.
Such 'dominion' , already established with the water mill and other mechanisations, became part of the perspective of the new intellectuals.
Traditions teach us that we should have 'dominion' over nature, and not be a part of nature.
There's no sign that any monarch would have recognised the concept, given that throughout history they'd a habit of claiming 'dominion' over many nations.
From public schools to elementary schools, the history of the empire was still little taught, while for most young people Empire Day meant an extra holiday rather than a commitment to 'dominion' over palm and pine.
It identifies the restoration of 'dominion' over the powers in the new humanity.
The cells reduced all other species to near elimination, and established 'dominion' over the corporeal plane of the entity.
man's attempt to establish 'dominion' over nature
Humans can labour with their hands and brains, can plan and develop productive techniques, and have amassed centuries of culture and knowledge that have enabled them to control and hold 'dominion' over the rest of nature.
By the time Orwell returned to England in 1927 he had a hatred not just of colonialism, but of ‘every form of man's 'dominion' over man’.
He has invaded the 'dominions' of winter and threaded the tangled equatorial jungles of the Amazon.
All states and 'dominions' which hold or have held sway over mankind are either republics or monarchies.
Subsequently, the Spanish empire and its Italian 'dominions' formed the dominant pole of both political theory and political practice in the peninsula.
War itself brought changes as the status of self-governing 'dominions' moved toward de facto independence.
In 1907, New Zealand was made a 'Dominion' of Great Britain.
Indeed in 1892, when it was necessary to appoint a new Poet Laureate, Queen Victoria is reported to have said to Gladstone: ‘I am told that Mr Swinburne is the best poet in my 'dominions' .’
To these were added a number of European kingdoms and the Spanish 'dominions' in the Americas when Charles was sixteen, and by the age of nineteen he had added the Hapsburg Empire to his possessions.
An energetic ruler, he dispatched naval expeditions to Sri Lanka and presided over the military and mercantile expansion of the Pallava 'dominions' .
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