Sentence examples for this subservience from inspiring English sources

However, this subservience is beginning to yield.

Britain's military failures in Basra and Helmand, rescued in both by the Americans, increased this subservience.

As with all monarchical nations – mostly in northern Europe – it is this subservience that allowed them to survive.

But what was left open was how far this subservience still extends among the 24 million Iraqis.

To the general public, the most obvious consequence of this subservience has been Treasury's meek acquiescence in an economic policy that hasn't produced any jobs, but has produced a $450 billion deficit.

While Labour has failed to articulate a distinctive social democratic position in a febrile crisis, a recent assessment regards this as part of a historical tendency to "cringe before the conservatism of the political scene even when its own prospects were damaged by this subservience".

But this pious subservience that you have ending this passage – and certainly it's consonant with that image from the Nativity Ode – nonetheless, I think it's safe to say that it comes as quite a shock when you consider the sentence as a whole.

And what was the point of all this wifely subservience?

What is the reason for this total subservience to Washington's wishes, they wonder?

Apart from the possibility of Abu Dhabi taking over Dubai's assets, this new subservience to the capital could make itself felt in two other ways, both with serious implications for Dubai: the setting of the emirate's budgets within the overall federal financial structure; and its relationship with Iran.

One inevitable effect of this unwelcome subservience is that we are coerced into obeying those who exercise political power over us, and this can be interpreted as punishment for our sinful condition.