Sentence examples for subservient relationship from inspiring English sources
Eve saves him, but not before she breaks the bonds that have kept her in a terrifyingly subservient relationship.
Adolfo Aguilar Zinser, who served as Mexico's ambassador to the United Nations throughout the debate on war in Iraq, gave a speech in November that asserted that the United States sought a subservient relationship with Mexico.
They are determined to break out of their subservient relationship with manufacturers.Such is their concern that more than 20 of Britain's largest franchised dealers recently held secret discussions about a plan to import cheap new cars from continental Europe for private buyers.
Despite all the different expressions of kingship in the history of Mesopotamia (especially among the empires of Sumer, Babylon, and Assyria), there nevertheless was a continuous theme: the real lord of the city, the country, or the state remains the god, and the king remains in a subservient relationship to him.
They hear the hierarchy of a subservient relationship.
Suffrage and women's rights ran counter to deep social and religious traditions that placed women in a subservient relationship to men".
For many families, this places women in a subservient role within relationships, relying heavily on their male partner for financial support and decision-making, and being sexually compliant and looking after the home and family in return.
"Did you feel subservient in your wider relationship with Cleese?" "No, because I met him on The Frost Report, after which he was offered all sorts of things, but he rang me up instead, and decided to do Python.
Greatly influencing the study of international relations in the United States and Europe as well as in developing countries, dependency theorists argued that Latin America's problems were rooted in its subservient economic and political relationship to the United States and western Europe.
Use it as a chance to get out of that subservient client / agency relationship whilst you're at it.
"Well," I said, "Madonna is saying that women need to say what they want, and not be placated by romantic clichés into accepting subservient roles in romantic relationships.
