Sentence examples for be made subservient from inspiring English sources

I adhere to a conclusion reached long ago — by James Madison in 1818, who said, simply, that it cannot be right for all of Earth's resources to "be made subservient to the use of man".

We agree with the Court of Appeals that "[w]e do not see how the district court's inherent power to tax fees for that conduct can be made subservient to any state policy without transgressing the boundaries set out in Erie, Guaranty Trust Co., and Hanna," for "[f]ee-shifting here is not a matter of substantive remedy, but of vindicating judicial authority". 894 F. 2d, at 705.

Foreign aid would be called in by first the weaker, then the stronger side; & finally both be made subservient to the wars & politics of Europe.

For one day, all things can wait and the needs of the outside world can be made subservient to the seeking of inner peace and renewal.

Too often, scientific knowledge has been made subservient to national objectives, especially in the realms of energy and metallurgy.

That's what happens when science is made subservient to policy and politics, especially when millions of dollars in financing is also at stake.

Cartesian rationalism, as applied to theology, for example by Nicholas Malebranche, who set out to refute the pantheism of Benedict de Spinoza, was a powerful solvent of traditional belief: God was made subservient to reason.

We can no longer put off the day of reckoning with the militias; until they are made subservient to the elected government, there will be no stability in Iraq.

The Guardian believed that if "the story had been cut short and tidied up at the point marked by the interval, and if the personal drama had been made subservient to a cinematic treatment of the central theme the collapse and devastation of the Old South then Gone With the Wind might have been a really great film".

Indeed the vocal performance itself is quickly made subservient to the drama, with fluid rhythm and speechlike inflection, and with fioritura deftly turned to laughter.

MPs heard evidence that despite Parliament's intention for the CCRC to be robustly independent of the legal system so that it could properly assess whether mistakes had been made, too often it proved "deferential and subservient" to the Court of Appeal.