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

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

We did not make a proper use of last winter, neither could we, while we were in a dependent state.

From Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 1 (1774-1779): the American Crisis by Conway, Moncure Daniel

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

This dependent state of mind is far removed from virtue.

From The Eve of the French Revolution by Lowell, Edward J. (Edward Jackson)