dominion

Iran agreed to reopen the vital thoroughfare during the two-week truce, but said it would maintain "dominion" over it.

From Barron's ● Apr. 9, 2026

The way Pope Leo saw it, powers were seeking to impose dominion through arms and undermining the taboo since World War II on changing borders by force.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 21, 2026

So it’s not just religion qua religion, or religion and law; it’s really bolted onto ideas of capitalism and the economy and dominion of the world.

From Slate ● Mar. 10, 2026

It also showed that "there was no point in having a dominion status under the empire when the British cannot be expected to deal with their subjects fairly", adds Pushpa.

From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2025

We aimed for no more than to have dominion over every creature that moved upon the earth.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

Slavery was widespread in ancient Rome and its dominions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

Prince Baltasar Carlos, Philip’s only son and likely heir to all the king’s dominions, had died at 16, apparently a smallpox victim.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 17, 2024

Australia has no treaty with its Indigenous people, and has done little in comparison to other British dominions like Canada, New Zealand and the United States to include and uplift its First Nations people.

From Reuters ● Jun. 23, 2023

Those countries, known as dominions, had a high level of independence from Britain, but were not fully independent countries as they are today.

From BBC ● Dec. 6, 2021

I say, therefore, that those dominions, upon being conquered and added to the long-established state of the one who acquires them, are either of the same region and language or they are not.

From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli