Examples of "Enslavement" in a Sentence (2024)

Before his enslavement, Darian had reigned over the city, as had his forefathers.

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Enslavement befell the extravagant wife and unfilial children.

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The discovery of rich deposits of gold and silver, together with the coveted commercial products of the country, created an urgent demand for labourers and led to the enslavement of the natives.

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Yet he did not hesitate to place his powers at the disposal of the most vicious members of that house for the enslavement of Florence.

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Whether from hostile forays or from piracy, any Greek was exposed to the risk of enslavement.

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During his long years of enslavement, he never forgot his sweetheart and as he longed for her, he made a ring symbolizing his love for her.

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In Asia Minor, the "enslavement " and liberation of cities alternated with the circumstances of the hour, while the kings all through professed themselves the champions of Hellenic freedom, and were ready on occasion to display munificence toward the city temples or in public works, such as might reconcile republicans to a position of dependence.

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The enslavement of creditors, overwhelmed with usury in consequence of losses by hostile raids or their own absence on military service, led to the secession to the Mons Sacer (493 B.C.).

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The last reserves of the national wealth and strength were dissipated by the terrible peasant rising of GyOrgy Dozsa in 1514, of which the enslavement of the Hungarian peasantry was the immediate consequence.

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Another resolution, of importance for the history of the treatment of heresy, was the canon which decreed that armed force should be employed against the Cathari in southern France, that their goods were liable to confiscation and their persons to enslavement by the princes, and that all who took up weapons against them should receive a two years' remission of their penance and be placed - like the crusaders - under the direct protection of the church.

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On the other hand, this game can only end with the enslavement of mankind.

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The immediate result of European colonization was the enslavement and extermination of the Indians along the coast and in all those favoured inland localities where the whites came into contact with them.

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They were an energetic people, were never subdued by the Aztecs, and are now recovering from their long subjection to Spanish enslavement more rapidly than any other indigenous race.

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The colonial period was marked by the destruction of the ancient Indian civilization, the extermination of many entire tribes, and the enslavement of the survivors, who were exploited to the utmost for the benefit of Spanish officials and adventurers.

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Accordingly in June 1654 he set sail for Lisbon to plead the cause of the Indians, and in April 1655 he obtained from the king a series of decrees which placed the missions under the Company of Jesus, with himself as their superior, and prohibited the enslavement of the natives, except in certain specified cases.

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He always hated the enslavement of the death dealers; he refused to give Death his soul until forced to make a deal with her for Rhyn's life a few months ago.

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He found the dark memories of his enslavement were enough to motivate him without the heartache of remembering all that was good that would never be his again.

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They were, however, prohibited from engaging in the poison ordeal, enslavement or brutal punishment.

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While the ending of the Civil War was a liberating time for African Americans, most held onto the names given them during their enslavement, continuing to pass those names onto their offspring.

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Callicratidas pronounced against the enslavement of Greeks by Greeks, but violated his own principle, to which, however, Epaminondas and Pelopidas appear to have been faithful.

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Trusting Claire had led Darian to his enslavement.

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