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Our people are used to being subservient because under the wali no criticism was tolerated.† (source)
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At the very least, his kapo has accepted him as a subservient prisoner who will not cause problems.† (source)
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She thought of that, worried about it for a few days, and then wrote a column using that as a premise, to show that politicians who toadied to the Russians in order to keep the peace would inevitably end up subservient to them in everything.† (source)
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Strange to think that ladies in ruffles and bustles once strolled over this bridge and leaned on this filigreed railing, to take in the now-costly, soon-to-be-private view: the tumult of the water below, the picturesque limestone cliffs to the west, the factories alongside going full tilt fourteen hours a day, filled with subservient cap-tugging yokels and twinkling in the dusk like gas-lit gambling casinos.† (source)
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The designs of men are notoriously subservient to happenstance, hesitation, and haste; but had the Count been given the power to engineer an optimal course of events, he could not have done a better job than Fate was doing on its own.† (source)
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He has created the heavens and the earth with the truth; He makes the night cover the day and makes the day overtake the night, and He has made the sun and the moon subservient; each one runs on to an assigned term; now surely He is the Mighty, the Great Forgiver.† (source)
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They went first to Trustworthy Bank, and then to Faithful Savings and Loan, and then to Subservient Financial Services, each time inquiring for Mr. Poe.† (source)
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Was she supposed to imbibe it from my quiet subservience?† (source)
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After a week or two, however, coming to understand that Clyde was a nephew of the president, a cousin of the secretary of the company, and hence not likely to remain here long in any menial capacity, they grew more friendly, but inclined in the face of the sense of subserviency which this inspired in them, to become jealous and suspicious of him in another way.† (source)
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"Madam Lestrange," murmured Tom, and as Hermione paused he inclined his head subserviently.† (source)
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They had accepted that subservient role.† (source)
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She would order us to serve her ice water in tall glasses and send us to the candy store for Devil Dogs and Montclair cigarettes, which we fetched with great dispatch and offered to her with proper subservience.† (source)
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They despise the submission and subserviency of the Southern Negroes, but offer no other means by which a poor and oppressed minority can exist side by side with its masters.† (source)
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and the bright young men laughed subserviently, feeling slightly contemptuous of the boss.† (source)
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She is seventeen, a subservient, naïve, lonely girl.† (source)
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The first step toward greater justice is to transform that culture of female docility and subservience, so that women themselves become more assertive and demanding.† (source)
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