Sentence examples for vassal state from inspiring English sources

On the other hand, the relationship of vassal state to China was often oppressive.

(Greece was a vassal state when Lord Elgin's men showed up with their crowbars and cranes).

"You know, the Philippines is not a vassal state," he replied.

It used to be a Soviet vassal state, ruled by a Moscow stooge called Saparmurat Niyazov.

It had become a vassal state of the company by 1749.

In 1880, however, the Qing claimed a right to protect Vietnam as its vassal state.

Russia annexed Crimea (an Ottoman vassal state) in 1783 and planned to partition the Ottoman Empire.

In 1569 the Toungoo conquered Ayutthaya and reduced it to a vassal state.

Only the will of one man, Churchill, saved England from becoming a vassal state on the edge of a Europe under permanent subjugation.

Awe said it was not clear why the panels appeared in Xunantunich, but the city may have allied itself with or been a vassal state to Naranjo.

Bahrain is a tiny island just a few miles across a causeway from Saudi Arabia and now increasingly something of a vassal state to Riyadh.