Sentence examples for subservient position from inspiring English sources

"He was in a subservient position with the lantern.

The secret committees in Congress that the administration and the intelligence agencies portray as a check on the NSA are in a similarly subservient position.

One story, unused, from my notebook: Rajkala Kanwar married into her husband's family, from the conservative Jat caste in the farming state of Haryana, understanding that she would occupy a subservient position.

Laura doesn't love it that Nick spends more time with Tony than he does with her, and she really doesn't love it that Nick seems to be supporting Tony's subservient position to an American president named George.

One ominous result was that colonists now began to believe that the British were developing a long-term plan to reduce the colonies to a subservient position, which they were soon calling "slavery".

With the region's economic powers so far out on the periphery, the downtown area fell to what looked like a subservient position before its own suburbs: in parts strangely underdeveloped, in others almost forgotten.

The employees most likely to use a friendly greeting were women not in positions of authority, followed by men in subservient positions.

Are the people in question to remain in subservient positions abroad (to provide people with cheaper groceries) or eke out a living in their homelands further adding to the disparity between the rich and powerful and the poor and powerless?

The hero and the heroine (not Eugenia) write their way out of their poverty and subservient positions in the household, and this happy development puts the reader wistfully in mind of the immense appetite for the written word evinced by the Victorians and, still, by A. S. Byatt.

McDaniel, like many black women before and after her, was forced into these subservient positions in order to survive.

Traditional and religious notions that place women in subservient positions within families are still widely enforced and they dictate the hierarchy in domestic affairs.