It may be entirely unsurprising in Whitehall that our subservience has been institutionalised in this way, but everyone else is entitled to ask whether that makes it healthy or right.
Both are elemental hymns to the natural world and our subservience to it; both sing of creation, mortality, and re-birth.
The critical advantage for America's foreign policy is that breaking our addiction to oil would also break our subservience to foreign oil.
And I thought this showed a problematic lack of respect for if you are to work in this business, where your job is to serve other people, I think you should be pleased to do that, and take pride in your subservience.
The evolving culture in our nation is one of silent subservience to corporate forces, helped along by a political system bought and paid for by big donors.
An intimation or overt gesture of disregard may be a test to gauge our resistance to subservience, or to put us in our place.
In fact, Sandberg's message is subtly different – we hold ourselves back because of a raft of factors: social expectation, a lack of domestic assertiveness, a sense that, from the minute we reach maturity, we are forward-planning for our own subservience.
It is also an act of reclaiming for our benefit large swathes of our environment that have long been ignored in subservience to efficiency.
The D*g in subservience as in chains has no free will, and so — Oh Cherie — is this for me?
In other words, their unity in subservience to the fossil fuel industry is complete, and almost compelling.
