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  • noun Plural form of enslavement.

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Examples

  • This body could express its regrets for over a millennium of jihad wars, land expropriations, enslavements, and humiliations of the conquered non-Muslim populations on three continents.

    Post-American Presidency Pamela Geller 2010

  • This body could express its regrets for over a millennium of jihad wars, land expropriations, enslavements, and humiliations of the conquered non-Muslim populations on three continents.

    Post-American Presidency Pamela Geller 2010

  • That is why the truly horrific human atrocities of history - the enslavements, the inquisitions, the terrorisms, the genocides - have been perpetrated not in hot blood, but in cold; not as a result of urgent feelings, but in the name of a transcendent ideology and as a result of painstaking indoctrination.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • This body could express its regrets for over a millennium of jihad wars, land expropriations, enslavements, and humiliations of the conquered non-Muslim populations on three continents.

    OBAMAFICATION 2009

  • That is why the truly horrific atrocities in human history — the enslavements, the inquisitions, the terrorisms, the genocides — have been perpetrated not in hot blood but in cold: not as a result of urgent and immanent feeling but in the name of a transcendent ideology and as a result of painstaking indoctrination.

    Eradicating the 'Little Satan' Ze'ev Maghen 2009

  • It is my argument that a pious fraud has been perpetrated so as to subject mankind to the most humiliating of intellectual enslavements.

    The Beethoven Delusion 2009

  • And before disappearing, it will have charged to its account a weight of suffering both unimaginable and futile, massacres and famines, enslavements and tyrannies.

    It Never Changes Rogers 2007

  • “We defend our enslavements,” said an unknown philosopher, “as if they were our freedoms.”

    Egonomics David Marcum 2007

  • Over at The Volokh Conspiracy, David Kopel reminds us that it was 15 years ago today that the Soviet Union ceased to exist, bringing to an end a 70 year era that saw the death of hundreds of millions and the enslavements of millions more.

    An Anniversary Worth Celebrating 2006

  • I can't stick with the guy through the battles and enslavements if he has no perspective and sense of irony about himself, his failures, and his weaknesses.

    HH Com 397 Miss Snark 2006

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