From Merrick's point of view, it is a simple matter of political subjugation which must be met head on.

Tiger-hunting in the British Raj, is also considered to represented not just the political subjugation of India, but in addition, the triumph over India's environment.

Such a situation, Jefferson feared, would leave the American people vulnerable to political subjugation and economic manipulation.

Cut loose from Russia after decades of political subjugation and economic support, Mongolians worry about their portly neighbor to the south, China.

They would have to adapt to a civilization whose watchword was independence, while themselves suffering political subjugation.

Representative Bill Green, a Manhattan Republican, said: "Armenians have suffered through war, genocide, partition and political subjugation.

They regarded all forest tribes with distrust and controlled them with bribery and political subjugation.

This is true, for example, with regard to Lebanon, whose political subjugation and continued occupation we continue to tolerate.

But they acknowledge privately that the Shiites's long political subjugation must be redressed.