How To Use Subservience In A Sentence
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Bowing your head to a monarch is an act of subservience.
Should you be bothered that Pres. Obama bowed to the Japanese emperor? « Dating Jesus
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Talk of drawing moral battle lines rather than building bridges would suggest that subservience rather than respect, as your political masters crave, is the objective.
Policeman killed - NO STORY. Woman slapped - BIG STORY. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
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They refuse to live in subservience to governmental elites.
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Conversely, to be in a relationship with a passionate and self-assured Latino doesn't imply subservience to the dominant macho.
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He is obsessed with religion, with strict adherence to ceremony and unquestioning subservience to the teachings of the church.
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It is too much associated with a truckling, subservience to English people and English ideas and the silly swagger of the hop-o'-my-thumb junior officer.
Education and Empire Unity
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Subservience is also shown because other prisoners see it as a mask, necessary for survival for weaker or less competent prisoners.
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Here it was before him, a courtroom and a judged bowed down in subservience by the machine to a divekeeper who swung a string of votes.
The Benefit of the Doubt
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His aesthetic theories, which naturally dominate his writing, run counter to this idea of the subservience of art to nature.
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They must exchange subservience to the pressures of the id for acting in accordance with the ego.
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The Holy See forbade clerics to join the new organization, and it implored prelates to observe vigilantly all sacerdotal activities in order to secure the subservience of priests and to rout out rebels and rogues.
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They want to shelter in a united Europe, and live under the NATO umbrella because they remember the Soviet Union, war, and years of what came to be called Finlandization—forced subservience to Soviet interests.
Bad News Could Force Some Real Decisions
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The way I interpret the word subservient my answer is no, I do not think subservience is equivalent to respect.
Archive 2009-07-01
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I suppose there was the inevitable, uncharitable flicker of hostility towards a woman who could, in this day and age, devote herself with such sycophantic subservience to men.
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For all of Kumaratunga's talk of ‘a partnership’ with the US, the real relationship is one of slavish subservience in all spheres - economic, political and military.
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However, these skills were also a way to imbue children with Western culture, and at least one scholar argues that domestic education for Indian girls was proof of an "underlying federal agenda" intended to indoctrinate "Indian girls in subservience and submission to authority.
"Make It Yourself": Home Sewing, Gender, and Culture, 1890-1930
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Leonardo Bruni, and primarily in Florence, there developed a humanist historiography which went too far in its subservience to antiquity, breaking up the continuities of narrative and theme by its “annalistic” method, encouraging artifice by its restriction of vo - cabulary, and allowing rhetorical affections to carry it to a conventional kind of theatricality which pre - vented either the proper portrayal of men or the gen - uine interpretation of what had happened.
HISTORIOGRAPHY
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Great aristocrats no more become gentlemen of the bedchamber out of subservience than they became grooms of the stool out of a desire to wipe the royal bottom.
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That, if it be God's will, we may do him more service and may get to be fitter and riper for heaven, is an end for which we may wish the prolonging of life, in subservience to our chief end; but, otherwise, what can we propose to ourselves in desiring to tarry here?
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
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Later, I saw him screaming at male crew members, ordering them about and obviously enjoying their subservience and the fact that they couldn't answer him back.
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Dependency implies subservience in a power relationship which is highly asymmetrical.
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When Qualary spoke to her or of her, she said `Madam Domer ' in tones of absolute subservience and grovelling respect.
A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
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Leaving out the difference in subservience to authority between Europeans and Americans, I wrote this in the comments:
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » My Climate Plan
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Subservience, sexuality, and hostility surfaced in her relationships with her companions, creating countercurrents to trust, support, and love.
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They served Ware and his guests without a sound, though with no sign of the kind of cowed subservience Xylina had seen in other slaves of their type.
If I Pay Thee Not In Gold
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He's constantly demanding female subservience in a mad attempt at securing his masculinity.
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Blind fealty and total subservience is not expected nor wanted.
Balloon Juice » 2005 » June
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They are brilliant horsemen, good fighters, and have deep family traditions which do not include subservience to Raza.
DESTROY THE KENTUCKY
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W Davis no relation to A. P. Davis, but he changed its name from the Reclamation Service to the Bureau of Reclamation, as a reminder to its self-assertive staff of their subservience to Interior Department headquarters.
Colossus
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This is nowhere more marked than in relations with the US, where European policy swings between docile subservience and opportunistic pouting from the sidelines, forever falling short of the happy mean of assured self-confidence.
That famous European diplomacy
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From all accounts, in his case, humility does not mean subservience.
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all his actions were in subservience to the general plan
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The falsificationist, by contrast, recognizes the limitation of induction and the subservience of observation to theory.
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Marital instability, a growing number of female breadwinners, an increase in spinsterdom and domestic conflicts engendered by the humiliations and subservience of most men's work experience, influenced women to be more socially assertive!
SPEECH BY MR C MABENA: WOMEN CELEBRATING THE DECADE OF FREEDOM ON THE PATH TO TOTAL EMANCIPATION
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Clawing for tenure in a savage competition, the upwardly mobile learn subservience to superiors.
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The attitude of "progressive" academics in this country toward the jihad against the West has become one of intellectual "dhimmitude" - meaning subservience to, and acceptance of, second-class status by non-Muslims in a Muslim-ruled social order.
On Freedom of Speech and Openness to New Ideas on College Campuses
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Here it was before him, a courtroom and a judge, bowed down in subservience by the machine to a dive-keeper who swung a string of votes.
The Benefit of the Doubt
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Marriage has no benefits for women, as long as men are governed by the idea of subservience as a supreme value.
The Pleasure Seekers
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The decommissioning demand is about showing subservience to unionism.
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The thrust of both books is his failure to protect the national interests of Britain and his abject subservience to the United States.
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Subservience is also shown because other prisoners see it as a mask, necessary for survival for weaker or less competent prisoners.
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Politeness is a sign of dignity, not subservience. Theodore Roosevelt
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While I was a prisoner in the warehouse aka convalescent home, my "caregivers" often participated in the wildly irrational and amoral schemes of their bosses, then brayed their excuse— "I was only doing my job."—as if sanctioned subservience constitutes an acquittal.
On Ruben Navarro
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Obama also doesn’t bow in subservience to Babtists like he does to Saudi Kings.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Yet More Assaults on Speech
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The mayor picked him over career police executives for his unwavering political loyalty and subservience.
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So the vision such nihilists offered 20 th-century man was of a destiny no more elevated than a dog or cat, emancipated from morality other than subservience to the state.
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Silence is not stupidity . Cleverness is not wisdom . Self - respect is not arrogance . Subservience is not loyalty.
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Politeness is a sign of dignity, not subservience. Theodore Roosevelt
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I think the whole and entire point is a ritual humiliation of the citizen, to enforce the proper attitude of cowed subservience to those who are above the law, and provide an excuse to isolate or inconvenience those unwilling to submit. octopod replied to comment from Ito Kagehisa
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He had promised subservience to Alexander.
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This point about York's and Thursday's ultimate subservience to the army is iterated visually in the same scene.
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It holds that pure and honest legislators cannot spring from filth and trickery, and in subservience to this view, discountenances the unfair conduction of general elections, and favors the extension, by law, of the "Australian ballot" to the primary election of all political parties.
The Principles of the Republican Party: A Rare Unpublished Jack London Essay
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We have much to learn from our medieval forebears, but we cannot turn to them for an ideal or example of scholarly humility or subservience.
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They patronized the university and the churches, and the pastors especially bowed at their knees in meek subservience. 5
Chapter 4: Slaves of the Machine
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It is too much associated with a truckling, subservience to English people and English ideas and the silly swagger of the hop-o'-my-thumb junior officer.
Education and Empire Unity
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I suppose there was the inevitable, uncharitable flicker of hostility towards a woman who could, in this day and age, devote herself with such sycophantic subservience to men.
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Ian stood, his head down and eyes lowered, in his accustomed stance of subservience.
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They implored prelates to observe vigilantly all sacerdotal activities in order to secure the subservience of priests and to rout out rebels and rogues.
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Many mistakenly associate the blues with coarseness or political subservience.
