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
His behaviour in this dependent state, was the very reverse of what it should have been.
From The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume V. by Cibber, Theophilus
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
It does not, however, follow from this account, that there are no poor Quakers, or that members of this society are not born in a dependent state.
From A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 2 by Clarkson, Thomas
He was miserably put upon; treated with less consideration than the servants; made to feel his dependent state daily and hourly by petty annoyances; and yet she could not openly interfere!
From Trevlyn Hold by Wood, Mrs. Henry
