Sentence examples for is servile to from inspiring English sources

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Now the rumors around Moscow are that Putin will exert pressure on Gusinsky to sell a controlling interest of NTV shares to an owner who is servile to the Kremlin...Only strong and stable countries can afford mediocrity.

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In subordinate male monkeys, for example, the stress of being servile to their alpha counterparts causes damage in the hippocampus.

National prosecutors, often criticized for being servile to the sitting president, say they are trying to recover more than $4 billion lost to corruption related to the Gupta family's undue influence on Mr. Zuma's administration.

In the camp, Manea's father was concerned above all with moral dignity, refusing to be servile, to participate in the "black market in sentiment" that prevailed there, but Manea's mother was bent on surviving, and Manea was still young enough to agree with her.

They had been servile to my parents and domineering to me, stupid, whining, loud, and forever trying to frighten me with stories of children who had been burned to a crisp or eaten by an ogre because they had disobeyed other Fraüleins.... Anybody who had had a German governess could understand Poland".

Consider again the case of the Deferential Wife described above: her deformed desire is that she wants to be servile to her husband and children.

The Deferential Wife (described in Section 1) who lives in a world in which women are routinely denied educational opportunities and access to the best jobs, and so become economically dependent on men, is more likely to desire to be servile to her husband and children.

Beings of luxury for whom all work is servile, they give themselves up to festive entertainments to which only the richest among us can ever hope to aspire.

That argument looks a little weak; and, when the rhetoric of "Yes Is More" is set alongside projects like Astana, or a proposed island-resort complex in Azerbaijan, it can seem, to some, that BIG is servile before power.

She is confused about her worth as a person, and is servile, or, lacking in self-respect, despite being glad and proud to serve her husband (Hill 1973).

Russia's opposition has been cowed, killed or forced into exile, parliament is servile and the media largely toothless.

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