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

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

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

Sir R. Charles, Charles, these sentiments but ill become the dependent state in which Fortune has placed you.

From The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Vol I, No. 2, February 1810 by Carpenter, S. C. (Stephen Cullen)