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
This and the expected US withdrawal from Afghanistan is welcomed by many Pakistanis as the end of strategic vassalage.
From The Guardian
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