Sentence examples for for subservience from inspiring English sources

"Many people outside Taliesin, especially critics and writers, mistook our devotion for subservience," he wrote In 1979.

The landowning families of Negros, mostly of Spanish stock, became rich, providing welfare for their sugar workers in return for subservience.

Shaw must also deal with the discontent of Louka (Helen Farmer), the maid, who doesn't appreciate being treated like one, and her relationship with Nicola Ames Adamsonn), another servant, who has a talent for subservience.

A leading Tehran daily, Kayhan, meanwhile, blasted him for "subservience to the Zionists" and accused King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia of being "indifferent to the massacre of Gaza's Muslims".

A brilliant scholar in the scullery, an intellect born too soon for the women's movement, too late for subservience (not that my adoring father would have wanted that of her)?

Federal judges, notorious for subservience to the government in cases involving Muslims and Terrorism, go out of their way to allow even the most dubious government evidence while excluding the huge bulk of the defendant's.

The blatancy of the behavioural conditioning is astonishing – its bimbly-bombly theme tune is basically a Pavlovian trigger for thoughtless subservience.

Neither was cut out for marital subservience; Aimee was to write that her mother was early "compelled to acknowledge that she was caught in the devil's net," though James Kennedy — a devout Methodist, a choir director — was, by all outward signs, a kind and steady husband.

In 1688 he received nominal command of the French armies in Germany, led by Vauban, but throughout his life he depended on the favours of his strong-willed father and acquired a reputation for timidity, subservience, and despite an education under the philosopher Bossuet general mediocrity.

"A strategic partnership is not a synonym for strategic subservience, and that's why we are opposed to it," Jaswant Singh, the foreign minister in the last B.J.P. administration and now a member of Parliament, said in a telephone interview on Wednesday.

Nobody gets a gold watch for their subservience.