dependent state
Example Sentences
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It was hard, she said, to shake off the dependent state of being a prisoner.
From New York Times • Mar. 2, 2011
Archie naturally resented her allusion to his penniless and dependent state.
From Clark's Field by Herrick, Robert
The explanation of this lies in the wretchedly dependent state of native authorship at that time.
From A Study of Hawthorne by Lathrop, George Parsons
If his dependent state irked him, his hosts did not perceive it.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15 by Various
Degraded from the rank of allies, the Lazi were incessantly reminded, by words and actions, of their dependent state.
From History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4 by Milman, Henry Hart
