Mr. Wagner said the board members, who had become "subservient" to the Schools Chancellor during the tenure of Frank J. Macchiarola and had remained that way, spent inordinate amounts of time analyzing cost overruns of as little as $5,000.
He wrote a new constitution, emphasizing transparency and a board subservient to its members.
Reacting against an American academic and aesthetic tradition that was subservient to European aesthetics, the members of The Eight established their own artistic society in the bustling neighbourhoods of New York and set out to create a native American painting.
Institutional constraints were augmented by social pressures, often internalized, to remain supportive of or subservient to fathers, husbands and other family members.
His commendable willingness to stand up to labor and most members of his own party on trade belies his reputation as subservient to his party's core constituencies.
In September, members of the Haqqani clan (a criminal syndicate and jihadi cult that's avowedly subservient to the Taliban leader Mullah Omar) marked the 10th anniversary of 9/11 with two theatrical attacks in Afghanistan.
While the post is important, it is subservient to the top team that Mr Wahid has put together.The new cabinet consists of 26 members, instead of 35 previously.
Activists will criticize the qualifications of individual board members, they will accuse boards of being asleep at the switch, or they may chide boards for being subservient to management.
"Tantawi and other members of the supreme council have been clear beneficiaries of the regime and Tantawi himself was a poodle, completely subservient to Mubarak.
Boehner had "caused the power of Congress to atrophy, thereby making Congress subservient to the Executive and Judicial branches," and he "uses the power of the office to punish Members".
