Sentence examples for of being subservient from inspiring English sources

The congressional majority, representing the agribusiness elite, accuses the environmental movement of being subservient to foreign interests and of trying to reduce the competitiveness of Brazilian commodities.

General Musharraf's alliance with the United States has incensed hard-line Islamists who accuse him of being subservient to the United States.

Mr. Hodac is widely accused of being subservient to elected officials and, in particular, close to former Prime Minister Vaclav Klaus, who now leads the lower house of Parliament and whose right-wing party is in a coalition with the governing Social Democrats.

They reported directly to the ministry of research, however, and both were widely suspected of being subservient to politics.

I know all too well the importance of being subservient to law enforcement.

There were also concerns: patients worried that recording might disturb established norms, and be at odds with the expected etiquette of being subservient and passive.

A countersuit from Apple accused Dr Gelernter of hiding prior art relating to his patents and misrepresenting his inventorship.Dr Gelernter thus found himself at war with Jobs, one of the few figures in the computer industry who shared his views on the importance of technology being subservient to users, rather than the other way around.

In 2014, it was reported in the Social Institutions and Gender Index, published by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development's development centre, that the notion of women being subservient to men in Nepal was so rooted in society that "neither the violence nor the failure to complain about it is unusual".

Cobb admits that the idea of morality being subservient to aesthetics is "shocking to many Christians," yet he argues that there must be more to life than simply being morally good or morally bad and that aesthetic categories fulfill this function specifically because they are defined as goods in themselves.

These were members of the "third sex" who rejected the roles of women to be subservient, feminine, and domestic.

This once-touted theory was used in the justification of slavery and racial segregation and claimed that "God through Noah ordained descendants of Africa to be subservient to Anglos".