Exempel på subservience

• The song "Stand By Your Man" has become a symbol of female subservience.

• Their subservience to rulers of the day was the key for survival.

• His subservience is emphasized by the repeated talk of "servant" and "lord".

• A coat signalled subservience, dependence or independence in very real ways.

• And what it means to be a private is thus defined and constituted in part by that relationship of subservience.

• Female respectability became more strongly correlated with female subservience.

• The state legislature merely declared that the existing practices constituted the new state system (minus any further subservience to the crown).

• Let's assume that she began life as the daughter of loving parents in a culture with deep traditions of female subservience.

• The illustration here is of the intimacy between will and intellect, not of the subservience of intellect to will.

• He found support within the ranks of these urban elites, and subservience from the vulnerable, usually landless, peasantries nearby, who became ready sources of conscripts.

• Let us also stipulate that she was brought up to accept subservience in a way that we would regard as oppressive.

• It portrays their rank as mere window-dressing in the continuing story of subservience.

• Can we find the kind of balance between internal and external complexity that creates a synergy, rather than a dominance and subservience, between them?

• Such subservience denies individual freedom and confirms the natural superiority of the past.

• She probably holds no views about the inferior role of women or the goodness of subservience generally.

• It is possible to hold even the values of subservience and obedience authentically.

• And, increasingly, working men shunned the wearing of livery, which carried a particular taint of subservience.

• The state of the world is a mass of contradictory opinions, which can only be resolved by subservience to custom.