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 attempt to force an oligarchy upon every dependent state was an unwise policy, which made them generally odious.
From The Olynthiacs and the Phillippics of Demosthenes Literally translated with notes by Charles Rann Kennedy
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 Moncure Daniel Conway
The explanation of this lies in the wretchedly dependent state of native authorship at that time.
From A Study of Hawthorne by George Parsons Lathrop
Degraded from the rank of allies, the Lazi were incessantly reminded, by words and actions, of their dependent state.
From History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4 by Henry Hart Milman
