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- verb Present participle of
enslave .
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Examples
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I believe Sherman was referring to a class of people who believed in enslaving and torturing another class of people.
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This really pisses me off about the Liberal ideology … you believe in enslaving people to the government yet when the time comes the very enslaving government is unable to provide help.
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He succeeded in enslaving twelve millions of people for one year, and then his power began to decline, and what can he do now with his confederacy?
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But this also falls apart under closer scrutiny as there was direct evidence of the moral failure of the idea of enslaving and exploiting another human being once again, not addressed until HALFWAY THROUGH the conflict while in the case of Iraq, there have only been assumptions and beliefs, and very little credible evidence.
Liverputty Jeffrey Hill 2004
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So far from evolution lifting us above the idea of enslaving men, it was providing us at least with a logical and potential argument for eating them.
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What they weren't were people who were thrilled by the idea of enslaving humanity under the rule of Joseph
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Jonathan Schwarz 2011
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He occasionally touches on the idea of enslaving the human race and the usual super-villain stuff, but he's mostly on the run from a group of vampire hunters -- his descendant, Frank Drake; Abraham Van Helsing's granddaughter, Rachel; and Jonathan and Mina Harker's son, Quincy.
Mania News Feed Kurt Amacker 2010
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For hundreds of years an American majority found little that was troubling in the idea of enslaving other people, and the Supreme Court's affirmation of that popular will (Dred Scott) now stands as one of the most shameful chapters in its history.
Freezerbox Magazine 2009
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For hundreds of years an American majority found little that was troubling in the idea of enslaving other people, and the Supreme Court's affirmation of that popular will (Dred Scott) now stands as one of the most shameful chapters in its history.
Freezerbox Magazine 2009
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For hundreds of years an American majority found little that was troubling in the idea of enslaving other people, and the Supreme Court's affirmation of that popular will (Dred Scott) now stands as one of the most shameful chapters in its history.
Freezerbox Magazine 2009
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