Sentence examples for his subservience from inspiring English sources

Many of his fellow blacks were critical of what they regarded as his subservience.

As you can see, Huckabee obediently confirmed his subservience, as did Romney, Giuliani, and Tancredo.

How does a black man assert leadership in a society that expects, and is often willing to enforce, his subservience?

Moreover, his lavish creations of new peers and, later in his reign, his subservience to various recently ennobled favourites loosened his hold upon the House of Lords.

If Obama can't stand up to corporations in a situation where Americans are demonstrably being killed in huge numbers and a majority is behind him, isn't his subservience almost complete?

Rákosi's enduring Stalinism and his subservience to Moscow had made him widely unpopular; and, when revolution broke out in Budapest in October 1956, he fled again to the U.S.S.R.

Louis XVI of France did not lose his throne "because of his alleged subservience to Austria".

The left-wing loonies of the party refused to support him because of his failure to denounce the Vietnam War as Vice President and his perceived subservience to the man who made him Vice President, Lyndon Johnson.

The graphic impression of his spineless subservience to Hanna would long outlive the lies of [Journal columnist] Alfred Henry Lewis".

The modern slave narrative has changed thanks to Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained, a film that took the basic framework of a tale of subjugation and rearranged it to be a story of a lone black man who fights his way out of subservience to reclaim his personhood through extreme violence.

Dizzy Gillespie complained of his "Uncle Tom-like subservience" and "plantation character," for instance, while the narrator in a James Baldwin short story disparaged his "old-time, down-home crap".