Police are subservient to a single party, not a legislature or judiciary.
However, any changes ought not to make Labour MPs more subservient to a supreme leader.
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.
European Union leaders are trending down a path where national sovereignty becomes subservient to a hyperstate that has the potential to create laws that run counter to the legal and constitutional traditions of a significant number of member states.
The agreements that govern how these bases are used are almost as old as George Orwell's dystopian portrayal of the UK as "Airstrip One", subservient to a US-led super-state.
But "Shrew," which takes its title from the 16th- and 17th-century label for a woman who will not be subservient to a man, is as popular as ever.
So instead of seeing that it might be sensible to ensure that the planet remains habitable in the future, it insists that efforts to achieve this should be subservient to a profit-driven agenda.
"Even America," said visiting US author Jonathan Franzen, "is not so slavishly subservient to a theory of the free market that we don't protect our authors, our booksellers, and our publishers".
