How To Use Subservient In A Sentence

She is expected to be subservient to her uncle.
Those who feel inferior constantly sink down within themselves and appear subservient. Why Am I Afraid to be Assertive?
Even in the United States, where the private media are almost invariably subservient to corporate interests, journalists generally do not cite polls by pollsters who have publicly partisan connections.
But, in the end, it is a production in which raw passion is always subservient to intellectual cleverness.
She did not wish to leave him, but she could not accept her subservient role.

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These are real people - people who still support the war, people who believe that women should be subservient to men, people who believe that gays should strive to be cured or remain celibate! MIND MELD: Is Science Fiction Antithetical to Religion?
The truth is that communism cannot exist without force because it depends so heavily upon squelching individual human ambition and making it subservient to the community.
Service attendants consider themselves equal to their guests, and usually are not subservient.
A form of marriage very popular among some groups then and now is the patriarchal, where the wife is subservient to the husband.
Although the legislative branch was clearly subservient to the executive, the Supreme Court exercised power independently.
It is very important to remember that the ornament is subservient to the garden and not the other way around.
Her mother was a traditional housewife who was subservient to her husband and was socially isolated because she spoke only a Chinese dialect called Hakka. Crazy Like Us
This case, the idea that the United States judicial system would be subservient or subordinate to an International Court of Justice, or the world court, is mined-boggling.
In ancient Rome clients were plebeians who were bound in a subservient relationship with their patrician patron.
And so much in answer to this objection; which being thus removed, I come now to shew, that the mysteriousness of those parts of the gospel called the credenda, or matters of our faith, is most subservient to the great, important ends of religion; and that upon these following accounts: Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. II.
The music which produced the miraculous effect was that of Kouei, the Orpheus of the Chinese, whose performance on the _king_, a kind of harmonicon constructed of slabs of sonorous stone, would draw wild animals around him and make them subservient to his will. Brave Men and Women Their Struggles, Failures, And Triumphs
She is meek and subservient to the needs of her God.
The unit's public affairs officers are subservient to the information operations experts, military and defense officials said.
December 14th, 2008 at 6: 23 pm yes zakaria is what i would call in urdu a chudoo, politely translated to 'subservient' - just towing the official line. have you ever heard of someone saying at the introduction Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com
The church government which I plead for against him, is a means subservient and helpful, so far as _removere prohibens_, to remove that which apparently is impeditive and destructive to that purity and power. The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2)
she has become submissive and subservient
Pedagogical freedom is not an absolute; it is instrumental and subservient to the university's overarching interest in promoting free inquiry and debate.
As the predators represent the pinnacle of macho, this still shows that she is subservient to the male symbolism.
The president, the parliament including all other organs of the state should be subservient to the constitution that would make the country a responsible state.
Those who feel inferior constantly sink down within themselves and appear subservient. Why Am I Afraid to be Assertive?
Few things are harder for people who were traditionally subservient to their ‘elders and betters’ than publicly dissenting and struggling for rights.
In modern speak, he was a chauvinist who wanted his wife at home and subservient.
In their case everything is subservient to the economy.
What this means is that Legco, which has little political power to begin with, is controlled by conservative forces subservient to Beijing and the Hong Kong government.
In theory, all the princes in the Holy Roman Empire were subservient to the emperor.
Across the Arab world supposedly passive and subservient peoples were rising against other repressive regimes. Times, Sunday Times
We can ‘speak’ health and wealth into being because ‘the material world is subservient to the spiritual one’.
Naturally, the minor speculators throughout the city — those who had expected to make a fortune out of this crash — raged and complained, but, being faced by an adamantine exchange directorate, a subservient press, and the alliance between the big bankers and the heavy quadrumvirate, there was nothing to be done. The Titan
Time after time they referred to his conflict of interest he owns most of Italy's commercial televisions stations and accused him of trying to make Europe subservient to the US.
Whether it’d be culturally condoned or not, poligamy is wrong; female circumcision is wrong; the general opression of women and the impellent force to have them be subservient to men are wrong. Feminism, Multiculturalism, and Teacherly Moments
Women went from being autonomous individuals to subservient beings living in seclusion.
In all these writers, the narrative self plays a subservient role to the voices of others; the self is rarely placed in a consistent dominating position over others.
And so there Miss Johnson sat, rigid with disbelief as two of her least subservient students gazed into her watery eyes and grinned wolfishly beneath little lambskin cloaks.
Her multi-dimensional character Denise is burdened with dreadfully stereotypical parents: the obstinate dad who wants her only to be a concert pianist, and the demure, subservient mom who finally speaks her mind at the totally expected moment. Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat
Nigerian women are very subservient to their men, so the project encourages personal development so that the women can become more assertive in deciding on a better life for themselves and their families.
The administration has sought to minimize the damage with a barrage of doubletalk that even the subservient media has been unable to swallow.
Although the legislative branch was clearly subservient to the executive, the Supreme Court exercised power independently.
They also amalgamate our nations into greater groupings, each with its Rothschild controlled 'Central Bank', for their easier management - by them, of course, rather than by the rightful inhabitants of the various subservient countries, and raise - 'harmonize' - all our price levels. Permit you to do WHAT? - Absolutely not!
In insects we first find the distinct commencement of a separation between the muscular system, that is, organs of irritability, and the nervous system, that is, organs of sensibility; the former, however, maintaining a pre-eminence throughout, and the nerves themselves being probably subservient to the motory power. Hints towards the formation of a more comprehensive theory of life.
Many critics have lambasted the female characters in his plays as two-dimensional and unrealistic portrayals of subservient women.
Just about anyone who was not entirely docile and subservient to the ruling ethos could be locked up for life.
Once defeated, the Zulu king became subservient to British rule and lost control over the trade in the kingdom, including the trade in beads.
Subservient Catholics and court theologians especially found it useful as warranting the secular power in making laws concerning validity and invalidity, diriment impediments, and the like. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
Pedagogical freedom is not an absolute; it is instrumental and subservient to the university's overarching interest in promoting free inquiry and debate.
A court could likewise restrict a father's teaching his children that women must be subservient to men, since such speech might undermine the mother's authority.
In ancient Rome clients were plebeians who were bound in a subservient relationship with their patrician patron.
While accountants take confidentiality seriously, as a core value it is subservient to their attestation role.
The village lad they ‘employ’ is very much subservient to his ‘employers’.
The increasing economic value of education is good news in a society that strives to make economic opportunity subservient to individual merit, rather than family background.
Don remained entirely subservient to his father.
As football across the world becomes subservient to the demands of the richest clubs, so football becomes something a good deal smaller. Times, Sunday Times
In other words, democracy must be subservient to economic growth, and unchecked government power is good for us.
The zamindars were not really ‘masters of the land’ but tax farmers subservient to imperial officials.
And now, it makes the policemen of 2003 seem like subservient yes-men.
Instantly, as if fearing reprisals, she lowered her head in a respectable, subservient manner and said nothing more as she bustled toward the door.
They are amiable, because it chances to be one of the constitutional tendencies of their individual character, left uneffaced by the Fall; and _they an just and upright_, _because they have perhaps no occasion to be otherwise_, _or find it subservient to their interests to maintain such a character_.” — “Occ. Disc.” vol.i. p. 8. The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete
Hariba has been "jessed", techno-biologically altered to be subservient to whoever has purchased her. REVIEW: Nekropolis by Maureen McHugh
We must separate the fanciful from the real, or at least make the one subservient to the other. Letters for Literary Ladies: To Which is Added, An Essay on the Noble Science of Self-Justification
Again, not much of a case here, because company agendas of cost-cutting, profit-chasing and shareholder value are not subservient to retaining skilled and committed workforces.
In ancient Rome clients were plebeians who were bound in a subservient relationship with their patrician patron.
She is expected to be subservient to her uncle.
Was there some hidden agenda to keep all us colonial subjects docile and subservient to the Great Empire by brainwashing our smarter students?
Their orators grew magniloquent over its tyrannical oppression; the Southern press overflowed with that marvellous exuberance of diatribe of which they are the acknowledged masters -- to all of which the complaisant North gave a ready and subservient concurrence, until the very name reeked in the public mind with infamous associations and degrading ideas. Bricks without Straw A Novel
Pearson spoke about how working women carry the puzzle of family life in their heads, their list of never-ending tasks and how their modest desire for time to themselves becomes subservient to everyone else's needs.
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The only thing schools teach is how to be subservient under a “one world government”. Dr. Sharma’s Obesity Notes » Blog Archive » US College Promotes Weight Bias and Discrimination?
Paul made cultural norms subservient to the absolute truth which is centred on the gospel of Jesus Christ.
But, if we inquire into our own thoughts, and consider what has been premised, we may perhaps entertain a low opinion of those high flights and abstractions, and look on all inquiries, about numbers only as so many difficiles nugae, so far as they are not subservient to practice, and promote the benefit of life. A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge, by George Berkeley
His wife refused to accept a traditional subservient role.
As football across the world becomes subservient to the demands of the richest clubs, so football becomes something a good deal smaller. Times, Sunday Times
Medieval scholasticism had trained students in Latin, letter-writing and philosophy, but its teachers and thinkers were generally subservient to the authorities (usually the church) for which they worked.
The wet Liberals are a pathetic and spineless bunch who are wholly subservient to government discipline and their own ambition in equal measure.
Although the legislative branch was clearly subservient to the executive, the Supreme Court exercised power independently.
It reeks of a patrician class handing down doctrines of obedience to the subservient masses. Times, Sunday Times
Every consideration was subservient to the overriding need to cut costs.
People should not be regarded as subservient to the economic system.
All three show an American architecture that was still subservient to France's Beaux-Arts vocabulary of ornament.
The music which produced the miraculous effect was that of Kouei, the Orpheus of the Chinese, whose performance on the king, a kind of harmonicon constructed of slabs of sonorous stone, would draw wild animals around him and make them subservient to his will. Brave Men and Women
He who does not make his reign subservient to the divine glory, acts the part not of a king, but a robber. Christianity Today
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Don remained entirely subservient to his father.
I think they felt sorry for me, not being able to cut it in the boy-meets-girl love story that they were all living, what with the being fat, dark, and having no ass thing, and mostly thinking of myself as too “special” to be subservient to men. Roseanne Archy
The way I interpret the word subservient my answer is no, I do not think subservience is equivalent to respect. Archive 2009-07-01
He who does not make his reign subservient to the divine glory, acts the part not of a king, but a robber. Christianity Today
Naturally, the role of the adaptive arm was initially subservient to the defensive functions of the pre-existing innate arm.
The UK government should not become subservient to an all-powerful Frankfurt, just like local government has little power in the UK at the moment.
In my opinion, people who opine about the "merely aesthetic," who find aesthetic values "nugatory" unless they are subservient to a higher principle of judgment, manifestly disdain art except as an illustrative aid, a utilitarian convenience. Art and Culture
Women, however, have conventionally been known as subservient and so the muscular look has never been a popular one toned, maybe, but certainly not muscular. "The man of the moment is an urchin, a wraith or an underfed runt."
However, sh must understand that the VP is a subservient position to the President. Second petition drive launched to make Clinton VP
She did not wish to leave him, but she could not accept her subservient role.
It reeks of a patrician class handing down doctrines of obedience to the subservient masses. Times, Sunday Times
editors and journalists who express opinions in print that are opposed to the interests of the rich are dismissed and replaced by subservient ones
Most such women were completely subservient and totally dependent on their families; they were unable to contribute much economically to their family.
was submissive and subservient
Instantly, as if fearing reprisals, she lowered her head in a respectable, subservient manner and said nothing more as she bustled toward the door.
The author is Delhi based Research Scholar in International Studies and can be reached at December 14th, 2008 at 6: 23 pm yes zakaria is what i would call in urdu a chudoo, politely translated to 'subservient' - just towing the official line. have you ever heard of someone saying at the introduction Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com
If nothing else, this administration provides some space for the emergence of a post-civil rights black leadership not subservient to the Democratic Party.
I had you pegged as weak-minded and subservient - Plinn's little puppet.
His local knowledge, active disposition, and subservient industry, render him an useful kind of drudge to any prevailing party, and, since the overthrow of the Brissotines, he has been entrusted with the government of this and some of the neighbouring departments. A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Complete Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners
Those who are too subservient to the form weaken their poetic thought; those who, like Wordsworth often, are inobedient to the form, produce a poem which is imperfect because it is neither a sonnet nor not a sonnet. The Principles of English Versification
In the end, however, the courts remain subservient to parliament and will have to apply a clear and unambiguous provision, even if it feels that it improperly infringes an individual's civil liberties.
It is often the case in arts writing that it is seen as subservient to the art, that it's role can only be one of an obvious and didactic explicator of hidden meanings or that it should act as an interpreter of the artist's intentions.
In some ways, the film's political messages are subservient to its desire to undermine the big-budget formula.
Many critics have lambasted the female characters in his plays as two-dimensional and unrealistic portrayals of subservient women.
The piano does play a more subservient role in the Rachmaninoff, as the cello carries the bulk of the melodic development, but Kay provides solid support throughout.
The press was accused of being subservient to the government.
Working like this is a shift in direction, cultivating agentive children instead of subservient ones.
This is an insider economy, where the entire economy is subservient to the interests of a chosen few and their cronies.
There is a need to look within because, in countries across the world, religion has become subservient to local tradition and women have been victimised in a patriarchal society.
Traditionally, it was accepted that wives and children were subordinate and subservient to the husband father, either because of biblical prescription or natural inferiority.
Culture and religion ascribe subservient roles to females.
Meanwhile, Richard explained, ‘the archbishops of York didn't want to be subservient to the Archbishop of Canterbury’.
The character of the picture may not at all depend upon form -- nay, it is possible that the painter may wish to draw away the mind altogether from the beauty, and even correctness of form, his subject being effect and colour, that shall be predominant, and to which form shall be quite subservient, and little more of it than such as chiaro-scuro shall give; and in such a case colour is the more important truth, because in it lies the sentiment of the picture. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.
She is expected to be subservient to her uncle.
In closely spaced weaving, the pattern of intersections becomes visually subservient to the plane.
Always the same soft, caressive, subservient, yet managing voice. Lady Chatterley's Lover
They are worshipers of the culture of death, whose goal is one thing: to convert the world to their religion, thereby making everyone in the world subservient to them, to their ideals, to their power.
If we were to breed you for hosts, how could we keep you knowledgeable, but subservient?
ANAMORPH is also woefully subservient to too many overplayed stereotypes- the jaded cop, the personal investment in the case and subsequent suspicion, the bolshie polar-opposite New Partner figure painfully acted by Scott Speedman might I add, and the obligatory Dead Ex-Partner. From a different perspective ANAMORPH might be good. But Simon isnt convinced… | Obsessed With Film
Often have I reflected on this since; and, instead of being angry at many of those who have written against me, have smiled to think that they were unintentionally subservient to my fame, by using a battledoor to make me virum volitare per ora. Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
She said: ‘We are determined to reach our goal - to empower women to live their own lives and not be subservient to their husbands.’
In ancient Rome clients were plebeians who were bound in a subservient relationship with their patrician patron.
I tried to be as nondominant and subservient as possible. Times, Sunday Times
She did not wish to leave him, but she could not accept her subservient role.
By handling this case involving a head of state, the Korean judiciary will become either truly independent from political pressure or subservient to its power.
Across the Arab world supposedly passive and subservient peoples were rising against other repressive regimes. Times, Sunday Times
The Reformation tended to reinforce the centrality of the family, and thus woman's subservient role as wife and mother - thereby outlawing and anathematising any female role perceived as non-familial or anti-familial.
It has been long ingrained in mythology and legendry that the good Eastern woman is to serve quietly and to live out her days subservient to the dictates of her master and patriarch. Rita Nakashima Brock, Ph. D.: On International Women's Day, Demand That Uprisings Throughout The Middle East Overturn Patriarchal Tradition
Undoubtedly his manner towards Shackleton must have appeared quite subservient.
Jack Straw: Muslim courts will always remain subservient to English law Jack Straw: Muslim courts will always remain subservient to English law
The press was accused of being subservient to the government.
All they want to hear is that the arts are efficiently run, good for the economy and subservient to current dogmas of inclusivism and education.
There is good reason for this: Marx elucidated a theory of labor in which workers become subservient to the objects they produce, a theory where people are not exalted by their labor, but devalued by it.
Amidst this, the economic policies of any one government will always be subservient to its quest to secure the external and internal sovereignty of the state.
Rural communities were exogamous, patrilocal, and patriarchal, with newly married women subservient in the families of their husbands until they had borne sons.
Trollope is not only recalling the Roman patron/client relationship but also asserting how Fothergill is socially below and subservient to Palliser.
Their tiff has all the characteristics of a domestic argument, with Rodriguez cast in the subservient ‘wife’ role.
For much of the twentieth century, mandarins of the law viewed the courts as agents of social change and the law as contingent, evolutionary, and ultimately subservient to political expediency.
Representatives who have been so nominated by their leaders, once elected to office as parliamentarians and councillors, become subservient to these leaders.
Fostered by the spirit of freedom, which goes before to disenthral the mind from that state of servitude in which its powers had been made to minister to ignorant and wayward ambition, or still more cramping and perverting superstition, it promises to gain an universal ascendancy, and to render all that influence which had been arrayed against it, henceforth subservient only to its triumphs. The History of Dartmouth College
Submission here means to be subsequent or responsive, not necessarily obsequious or subservient.
The press was accused of being subservient to the government.
When Kennedy ran for president in 1960 he went to great lengths to deny that his religious beliefs would make him subservient to the Catholic church and not the U.S. constitution.
For so he that makes the baser element subject to the better has self-control and is a superior man, whereas he who allows the nobler element of the soul to follow and be subservient to the incorrigible and unreasoning element, is inferior to what he might be, and is called incontinent, and is in an unnatural condition. Plutarch's Morals

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