hold dominion

By what force does man hold dominion unless it is through his mental energy and his capacity to accumulate experience?

We agree with Donald Hankey that the appetites hold dominion over the average man, whether civilian or soldier.

Well, I am the victim of all three; all three hold dominion over me.

Such might hold dominion over men in the barbaric ages of the world, but its universal sway has ceased.

The Directory were made to see that a great power had arisen which would hold dominion over them.