subdue

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• Plus, in all three color options, one side is subdued, while the opposite is something fun.

• That voice that sang alongside Patti LaBelle and Lauryn Hill, the one that gets critics to consistently call her “underrated,” was subdued as she strained to breathe.

• A day later in his cell, video footage shows Sheriff’s deputies tried to subdue a visibly disturbed Silva to take him for a medical evaluation.

• Having recovered from a virus-induced downturn, the $220 billion Hong Kong–listed services company is now contending with the potentially larger threat of government regulation, which Beijing proposed last month to subdue China’s runaway tech giants.

• Given all that’s gone on this year, it’s worth asking whether police officers and the communities they serve might be better off if cops had something other than guns to subdue unruly suspects.

• It took a blow to the head from Clark and the assistance of three deputies to subdue her.

• The younger brother would try everything in his power from a distance to subdue the roaring flames of passion.

• At least one Metropolitan Police officer was injured during the struggle to subdue the man.

• A brief struggle ensues as several officers attempt to subdue a squirming Grant, his hands behind his back.

• Yet it is these very anarchic groups that the Second Amendment was incorporated to subdue.

• Malcolm had selected it as a training-ground that evening, because he meant to weary and his too highly spirited charger.