subservience

Example Sentences

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While the war restored Europe's subservience to U.S. hegemony in the short term, these real-world impacts of the war could have quite different results in the long term.

From Salon

But their rule before she was born has become its own history lessons, now amplified as her classmates dread a return to subservience.

From Washington Post

The fascist leader presents the options as total loyalty to him or subservience to the communist agenda.

From Salon

They belong to Jehovah’s Witnesses, a Christian denomination that is nonviolent, eschews subservience to the state, refuses military service, does not vote and views God as the only true leader.

From Washington Post

Together, they would fight for better schools in the District, the right to vote, fair labor practices and an end to “Black Codes” that sought to enforce Black subservience to Whites.

From Washington Post