Примери за handmaiden

• They are heartily tired of being referred to as handmaidens and angels.

• Not only were the railways efficiently managed as handmaidens for the development and protection of her trade, but her railways were a source of very great value.

• Lip service is often paid to science and engineering, but these arc still regarded too often only as the handmaidens and not as the equal partners of statecraft and generalship.

• She built a strong faction of followers by arranging marriages between her handmaidens to powerful nobles.

• Literalism is not translation's best, or most graceful handmaiden.

• However, as she had violated the traditions, she was punished to die by being staked to the ground by the other handmaidens.

• When the handmaidens washed his legs, they asked him why they were so furry and why his hands were so calloused.

• Many believe they are the handmaidens of these goddesses, and are known as yoginis in local lore.

• They are perceived as primary values, as independent virtues, not handmaidens of political maxims and religious dogma.

• Nausica and her handmaidens go to the sea-shore to wash clothes.

• The princess and her four warrior handmaidens decide to set out to find him as well.

• The princess came with 500 high-ranking young men and a few hundred handmaidens as her entourage.

• Handmaidens are depicted without autonomy or an independent knowledge base of their ownknowing only a tiny subset of what physicians know and following all physician commands.

• The opposite could also be true : ' to dismiss doctors reductively as the handmaiden of colonialism or capitalism ignores the more complex, and interesting, reality ' (p. 10).

• American historians have been at the forefront of defining this period in terms of the positive assessment of the ' activist consumer ' as the handmaiden of social democracy.