Sentence examples for on servants from inspiring English sources

Until at least the Second World War, British society ran on servants.

Even so, she relied on servants to protect her from her vulnerable body.

A block of upper-class housing depends, most of all, on servants, and they were West 73rd's invisible population -- except to the census takers.

Eleanor, who was guiltily aware that she had always relied on servants and governesses to perform her share of woman's work, appreciated the unsentimental attitude toward domestic life that permeated home economics.

Other ideas included a programme on "servants of the rich" – "to provide a worm's eye view of the exclusively wealthy and aristocratic and … to investigate the mentality of the exclusive servant in this do-it-yourself age".

Seeking independence, Benjamin Guggenheim had broken not only with his wife and children but with the economic partnership of his brothers, and his death left his daughters in the position of poor relations until their mother came into her own inheritance; the family moved to smaller quarters and had to cut down on servants.

Now retired from a career of teaching in Manhattan, Mr. Silvia, the son of a Portuguese gardener who worked on the estates of Newport, has a unique perspective on servant life on the American continent.

Recovery is predicated on servant leadership -- as we learn and grow, we are responsible to pay it forward.

Before that, he issued a statement which said: "These are attacks on public servants, on the rule of law, and on civilized society, and they have to stop.

These are attacks on public servants, on the rule of law, and on civilized society, and they have to stop.

In a written statement and in a televised address to the nation President Obama demanded "attacks on public servants, on the rule of law, and on civilized society... have to stop..