Examples of subservient

• And it is not just that music has traditionally won, but along with it, a dramatic and representational vocabulary subservient to the music.

• Voluntary agencies were not independent and self-determined actors, but were legitimised by government only in so far as they acknowledged their subservient position.

• At the same time they overlay and reinforce a pre-existing musical binary - the primacy of the lead vocal over the ' subservient' backing chorus - instrumental accompaniment.

• One result is that programmes have kept women in subservient and separated roles, relative to male laity at all levels of the church.

• By enacting the subservient role with the required deferential manners they could to an extent assert their interests.

• People commonly regard monism as a doctrine in which parts are merged into and subservient before the whole - a kind of metaphysical totalitarianism.

• One may describe the role of axioms here as the subservient one of fixing the range of variables entering into the explicit constructions.

• As she had lived in habits of familiarity with the first nobility, she conceived the idea of rendering their patronage subservient to her scheme.