Sentence examples for a subservient relationship from inspiring English sources

Although some piano accompaniments continue a subservient relationship to the voice, the trend in the 19th and 20th centuries was toward greater participation in the interpretation.

Adolfo Aguilar Zinser, who served as Mexico's ambassador to the United Nations throughout the debate on war in Iraq, gave a speech in November that asserted that the United States sought a subservient relationship with Mexico.

Despite all the different expressions of kingship in the history of Mesopotamia (especially among the empires of Sumer, Babylon, and Assyria), there nevertheless was a continuous theme: the real lord of the city, the country, or the state remains the god, and the king remains in a subservient relationship to him.

They hear the hierarchy of a subservient relationship.

Suffrage and women's rights ran counter to deep social and religious traditions that placed women in a subservient relationship to men".

So it's a very subservient relationship that a lot of patients feel when they go in to talk to their doctor," says Benjamin F. Miller, professor at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.

Eve saves him, but not before she breaks the bonds that have kept her in a terrifyingly subservient relationship.

They are determined to break out of their subservient relationship with manufacturers.Such is their concern that more than 20 of Britain's largest franchised dealers recently held secret discussions about a plan to import cheap new cars from continental Europe for private buyers.

For many families, this places women in a subservient role within relationships, relying heavily on their male partner for financial support and decision-making, and being sexually compliant and looking after the home and family in return.

Britain found itself in a subservient, as much as a special, relationship with the US over the invasion and occupation of Iraq from 2003 and was rarely able to overturn sometimes ill-informed American decision-making, the lead British administrator in Iraq in 2004 has claimed.

By definition, the mammy is a subservient figure: someone defined by her relationship to whiteness, someone who's perfectly happy being a second-class citizen.