What is "fell under"

Usage examples of "fell under".

Geordi had asked earlier, which certainly fell under the category of famous last words.

Real wages declined, Australian enterprises fell under foreign control, and the country advanced towards the status of a resource base for the Japan-centered state capitalist region, which maintained its dynamic growth thanks to the radical departures from neoliberal dogma that had spurred development in the first place.

Doma was hardly the sort to cower, but even his angry eyes finally fell under the unrelenting weight of Xyia Kan's, and the heavy silence returned until, finally, the king relented.

Nothing really big, though, until he fell under the tutelage of Ingermann some tour or five years later—.

The King fixed the Bishop with a look of the bitterest, deepest anger, holding his nether lip tightly under his teeth--a trick he had when strongly moved with anger--and the Bishop's eyes fell under the look.

It fell under the dominion of the Moghuls in 1221, and was taken, plundered, and nearly destroyed by Tamerlane in 1387.

But warring against other sentients for the sake of eliminating a different intelligent species fell under a different set of regulations altogether.

Owing to this arrangement, Adam, being, of course, at the bottom of the table, fell under the immediate observation of Mr.

But New York had so long resigned itself to Medora that only a few old ladies shook their heads over Ellen's gaudy clothes, while her other relations fell under the charm of her high colour and high spirits.

Doma was hardly the sort to cower, but even his angry eyes finally fell under the unrelenting weight of Xyia Kan’.

Thousands fell under the virulence of its action, for wherever it came it struck down a seventh of the people, and of those whom it attacked, one out of nine perished.

But I know it is true that he fell under the power of the Holy Office, for once when as a little lad I bathed with him in the Elbow Pool, where the river Waveney bends some three hundred yards above this house, I saw that his breast and arms were scored with long white scars, and asked him what had caused them.

Which was not perturbed by something that fell under my eye soon afterwards.

Technically speaking, space crews fell under the command and jurisdiction of the government of Barnard, hence of Bascal personally, and would eventually be reconstituted as some sort of Royal Barnardean Navy, but none of that long-term stuff had been unpacked yet.

The waves rose and fell under her with an easy rolling motion, marching in from the ocean in steady rows.