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

Their dependent state was an unnatural state, and when the reaction came, the torrent swept all before it.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 44, June, 1861 Creator by Various

Indeed, this very word "own," which so long ago in our own tongue took to itself the symbol of possession, well exemplifies his dependent state.

From The Soul of the Far East by Lowell, Percival

Every invention of what is called science takes the human race farther and farther from nature, nearer and nearer to an artificial, unnatural and dependent state.

From Critical Studies by Ouida

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