Sentence examples for servile state from inspiring English sources

There is sure to be confusion on servile state television, which has long relied on the Kremlin's directions.

One is reminded of Hiliare Belloc's thesis that the predominant social structure of the future would be that of The Servile State – where the state would accept that monopoly capitalism could not be challenged and the best that could be attained would be a subsistence level of indentured servitude for the majority of the population.

Where their newscasts once brought a measure of objectivity to a region dominated by servile state-run media, they are increasingly viewed as mouthpieces for the foreign policy objectives of Qatar and Saudi Arabia.

William Chace, a recent president of Emory University and professor emeritus of English at Stanford University, said the shift risked turning colleges and universities into "servile mechanisms for state or federal interests".

Most accepted the desire among the slave states to count slaves as part of the population, although their servile status was raised as a major objection against this.

Between 135 BC and 71 BC there were three Servile Wars against the Roman state; the third, and most serious, may have involved the revolution of 120,000 to 150,000 slaves.

The servile status of the peasantry increased.

Africa's broadcast media, however, remain largely state-controlled and servile.

This explains the intensification of that already servile relationship with the most bloodthirsty state in the region.

Utah's biggest newspaper reasoned that although he is the state's "favourite adopted son", his "servile courtship of the tea party" and failure "to share specifics of his radical plan" meant that it would back Mr Obama (as it did in 2008).The Republicans' chances of winning the Senate were hurt by more remarks on women and rape from one of their candidates, this time in Indiana.

Between 135 BC and 71 BC there were three "Servile Wars" involving slave uprisings against the Roman state.