tamed

The picture on the left shows a family trying to feed the first ever hippopotamus to be tamed from the wild.

Jessica The Tame Hippo 2006

Fiscal reforms put in force early in Erdogan's term tamed runaway inflation.

Beginning of the End? 2007

In the context of Jewish law, that penis gets "tamed" - or perhaps "domesticated" is a better term-through guidelines and requirements that direct a husband's sexuality towards his wife-because in a religious context, of course, marital sex is the only legitimate sex-requiring him to be attentive to her needs and desires, while at the same time ensuring that there is enough sex for him to be satisfied.

feminist blogs 2009

They lead a tamed elephant to battle, the king mounts a tamed elephant; the tamed is the best among men, he who silently endures abuse.

The Dhammapada 2003

They lead a tamed elephant to battle, the king mounts a tamed elephant; the tamed is the best among men, he who silently endures abuse.

Dhammapada, a collection of verses; being one of the canonical books of the Buddhists 1861

Among other things, Spock metapohrically refers to Kirk as a "race horse" that must be "tamed" (or was it "broken"?).

Star Dreck Hal Duncan 2009

It implies, I think, a fundamental break with the domination impulse by which we have "tamed" nature over the millennia of recorded history and built our unstable civilizations, propped up by war and conquest.

Robert Koehler: Beyond Petroleum 2010

Only safer, "tamed" poetry is marketed by the big machines today.

Travis Nichols: The Poetry Feminaissance 2010

It implies, I think, a fundamental break with the domination impulse by which we have "tamed" nature over the millennia of recorded history and built our unstable civilizations, propped up by war and conquest.

Robert Koehler: Beyond Petroleum 2010

Only safer, "tamed" poetry is marketed by the big machines today.

Travis Nichols: The Poetry Feminaissance 2010