Sentence examples for servile position from inspiring English sources

(Jonny Lee Miller's smoldering reserve, by contrast, suits his servile position and clearly illustrates the class envy that drives the sex and the hate).

RJ: I don't think that anyone would intentionally put himself or herself in a servile position; no one ever wants to feel lesser.

And he referred, with esoteric caution, to the "servile" positions of political leaders -- i.e., those aligned with Stalin -- who have betrayed the opposition to Fascism.

The servile status of the peasantry increased.

Peasants were freed from servile status, and a procedure was laid down by which they could become owners of land.

It also reinforced the servile status of the peasantry, thus leading to a further deterioration of their condition.

He has been criticized, however, for being inexperienced for such a major civil leader position, too servile to the wishes of his patron, Grand Duke Constantine Pavlovich and he often disregarded the Constitution of the Congress Poland, which contributed to a slow but steady erosion of the country's freedoms and autonomy.

This puts the traditionally servile news media in a strange position: they have to support the war, but unlike in 2003, they can't even pretend to be gullible enough to believe that it would be a good thing.

During his administration, clerics of servile origin steadily gained in status, now called ministerialis rather than servitor.

If the president feels the need to compromise, entice, or appease large corporations, the GOP's attitude is downright servile.

This position did not, as is sometimes alleged, make him servile; alone of Henry VIII's councillors, Cranmer time and again spoke up for the unpopular victim of the moment, and his tart criticism of the king's theology and grammar in the debates over the King's Book of 1543 speaks well for his courage.