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.
