Sentence examples for subservient by from inspiring English sources

This production plays with a stereotype, the notion of Asian women as subservient, by casting the lovely Hana Moon as Agnès, Arnolphe's betrothed.

But they also treat Jewish communities as subservient to Israel by claiming to speak and act on behalf of Jews everywhere.

Tamura won seven world titles, two Olympic gold medals, and obliterated the stereotype of the subservient Japanese wife by continuing her career after marriage and taking her last title after giving birth.

Mr. Wrangham's nuanced ideas cannot be given their full due here, but he is not happy to note that cooking "trapped women into a newly subservient role enforced by male-dominated culture".

On the contrary he maintained that it can contribute only in a passive way to conception, while what was called "female sperm", i.e., the vaginal secretion, has a subservient, helpful but by no means necessary function.

Either way, the policy could turn out to be more pragmatic than the almost subservient stance adopted by the Obama administration.

By definition, the mammy is a subservient figure: someone defined by her relationship to whiteness, someone who's perfectly happy being a second-class citizen.

The report was historic not just because it was the first time that the Mexican government had acquiesced to such an intrusion by foreigners on its authority but, I think, it was also the first time Mexicans had ever seen a real criminal investigation, conducted by independent and autonomous justice professionals rather than by those subservient to a possibly complicit government.

Parliaments and consultative councils are fully subservient to and manipulated by executive authority.

Many Indians were intimidated by and subservient to British soldiers, as my family attested.

It now seems clear that Erdoğan, who is sixty-three, intonds to arrogate dictatorial powers to himself, have them ratified by a subservient political order, and stay in power for years to come.