Eksempler på dominion

• The remaining chapters assess how the metropolis attempted to re-establish control over its dominions and examine the settlers' responses to these various initiatives.

• She wished so far as possible to respect in her dominions the rights of the provincial estates, the greatest bastions of resistance to change.

• The importance in many parts of his dominions of institutions intermediate between ruler and subject he underestimated grossly almost to the end of his reign.

• The dominions office and the colonial office opposed a thorough embargo because this could damage export industries in the dominions and the colonies.

• One could easily imagine that a ruler who entered his hereditary dominions at a time of the greatest confusion had a great deal of work ahead of him.

• The mutual service inspired by love is inhospitable to the heterogeneities, the hierarchies and differences, of political dominion.

• His was a modern reflection of the king's majesty and dominion, though (officially, at least) not his divinity.

• Dialects (not registers) can have a holistic regional dominion.