enslave
غلام
definition
verb
If you have a religion, a belief system or a traditional practice that enslaves people, puts them in servitude and reduces their dignity, then you violate our national constitution.
make (someone) a slave.
example
Why should we support religiously intolerant regimes that virtually 'enslave' women and persecute nonbelievers to death?
It was perfectly acceptable, or at least conceivable, to make war on, exterminate, or 'enslave' colored people.
The few humans on top have chosen to 'enslave' the masses and keep them ignorant.
It was given the freedom to 'enslave' itself, not true freedom to develop.
Adams, the farmer's son who despised slavery and practiced the kind of personal economy and plain living commonly upheld as the American way, was scorned as an aristocrat who, if he could, would 'enslave' the common people.
Tyrants rise and 'enslave' the spirit of freedom.
Just as they are bond slaves to sin, so they seek to 'enslave' us similarly.
For example, my ancestors came to this country during the wave of mass immigration in the early part of the 1900s - they certainly didn't 'enslave' anybody and neither did their ancestors.
He had sworn when he was seven years old that no one would ever 'enslave' him again.
Sin, too, is a very powerful and cruel tyrant, dominating and ruling over the whole world, capturing and 'enslaving' all men.
Murdered and 'enslaved' children, no matter what their color or gender or faith, suffer because of our failings.
Both stories focus on the ways in which 'enslaved' people created community and resisted their oppression.
If you are 'enslaved' , you cannot go anywhere of your own free will.
He said today's youth had to pursue freedom in order to avoid being 'enslaved' by crime and drugs.
Earlier this year, three soldiers and paramilitaries were convicted of mass rape and of sexually 'enslaving' women.
He seems at this point to affirm the religious perspective of his 'enslavers' : He condemns himself and assumes that he is unworthy, even as he prays for divine deliverance.
It continues its raids, terrorizing villages, killing civilians and capturing and 'enslaving' children.
Trying to identify the persons or objects toward which the gratitude should be directed could be an 'enslaving' project, so why not enjoy your freedom instead?
If you have a religion, a belief system or a traditional practice that 'enslaves' people, puts them in servitude and reduces their dignity, then you violate our national constitution.
The Greeks' use of the word ‘barbarian’ to refer to the aliens they enslaved is, of course, an example of the strategy of distancing slaves from the sympathy of their 'enslavers' .
Plato remarks in the Republic that the great liberator is also the great 'enslaver' : and this was the hard political text learned by Romantic poets through most of Coleridge's lifetime.
If so, it sounds as though these other people are 'enslaving' this woman: they get to run her life for her.
In fact, I suspect he'd go on an extended rant about how the evil totalitarian government was 'enslaving' him and stealing his TV or some such.
Burning this important resource (on the farm or at the power plant) 'enslaves' the farmer to a cycle of increasing fertiliser use and decreasing productivity.
In other words, freedom cannot prevail without taking all intervening and 'enslaving' hands off of the brains and hearts of the individuals.
Practically 'enslaving' me, killing my parents, ruining my estate, and refusing to tell me whether my only brother is still living is kindly?
I support a troop's right to disobey his or her commanding officer, to desert, to subvert the system that 'enslaves' him.
Thirty years of totalitarianism reduced people's capacity to think, producing a society in love with its own 'enslavement' .
Pleasure seeking often 'enslaves' people in a vicious cycle of addiction…
Nine children and three women told similar stories of 'enslavement' and brutalization, including rape.
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