vassalage

Example Sentences

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As Johnson would say, it will be vassalage.

From The Guardian

Mr Gill said the prime minister had voted twice against Mrs May's deal and Mr Johnson had called that agreement "vassalage".

From BBC

The spread of slavery threatened to expand the number of its immediate victims but also threatened to reduce everyone else to political vassalage, ruled by the slaveholders and their adjunct classes.

From Salon

On Brexit, he has distorted a near trivial “freedom to trade with the rest of the world” with claptrap about vassalage, sovereignty and patriotism.

From The Guardian

But he quit in disgust last fall, accusing Mrs. May of offering Britons a choice between “vassalage and chaos,” and arguing that only a second referendum would get the country out of the morass.

From New York Times