"The Black Book," too, portrays women as subservient: "The powers that be are giving the Black Woman a false sense of empowerment by creating wicked laws to send the Black Man to prison and the Black Woman to the work force. . . .
The contrast with Muslim rulers in the Middle East, who remain slavishly subservient to US power while looting their country's oil wealth, could not be more striking.
As it economically holds the United States hostage, the Chinese regime, thus, seems to have it all: a monopoly on power, subservient economic elites, overflowing bank accounts and sovereign funds, and an unchecked right of repression.
Much science fiction posits a future dominated by a de-facto corporate state, wherein traditional government is either totally absent or entirely subservient to the power of a single giant company.
Leaders of the Union of Right Forces last week publicly pleaded with voters to turn out or risk the Parliament becoming what Irina M. Khakamada, the deputy speaker, called "a branch of power subservient to the executive branch".
The charge is that dissidents are subservient to a foreign power for the sake of money.If any dissident movement in Cuba is ever to succeed, it will have to be scrupulously home-grown.
The PA, she argues, assumed the trappings of a sovereignty over its lands while in reality it was subservient to the occupying power in every sense and at every level.
Nor can the CIO exist part trade union, dedicated to the ideals and objectives of the trade union movement, and part subservient to a foreign power," Reuther explained to his brother workers.
This would spell disaster for this country: Living standards would collapse, savers would be wiped out, and Greece, for the next 20 years at least, would not be able to recover from the blow, unless it became subservient to a foreign power.
She doesn't let her magazine serve as a little subservient blotter for whatever powers there may be.
Encroachment implies that the state is more powerful and is readily willing to exercise that power over the subservient pastoralists.
