It is this sheep-like loyalty that has turned many a hard-nosed businessman into a servile crony. |
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Her shrewdly posed independence, which appears to be the opposite of servile deference, is itself deferential. |
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The better-off refuse payment for services they accept while their victims are so servile and acquiescent that they make no protest. |
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And his servile easily bewitched audience of clodhopper crusaders will carry on as before. |
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In the play, the robots, having acquired human emotions, rebel against their servile status and destroy their masters. |
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I wanted to think this was some kind of dry joke, but 3 years of servile apologetics from some broadcasters prevent me. |
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When women speak, they frequently challenge the old elegiac poses of the constant lover, a fickle mistress, and his servile devotion. |
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We buy and sell football players, as if they were servile gladiators in Ancient Rome. |
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If it is sweet, servile and submissive, a new dog could bully your first dog into a life of fear and despair. |
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Over 30 percent of MGM's cartoons released between 1946 and 1953 presented either characters in blackface or servile African American maids. |
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His wife is a disgruntled waitress at the same restaurant who chafes at the servile role her job demands. |
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Being good at service means that we are servile and demeans our noble island spirit. |
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Given the uncertainties that envelope them, one cannot blame them for being servile, opportunistic and selfish. |
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This second figure suggests an alter ego who is critical of the housewife's servile predicament. |
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Being good at service means that we are servile and toadying and demeans our noble island spirit. |
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In a celebrated passage the thirteenth-century French jurist Beaumanoir attributed servile status to anyone below the category of privileged townsman. |
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Each of these explanations is committed to the thought that acting on a desire to be servile can compromise moral agency. |
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Be servile, serve the system blindly and never ask where it goes, that's the hidden motto behind Western education in general. |
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Until this happened, the entire outside world thought of Tunisia as a downmarket tourist destination, with a servile attitude towards the west. |
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This depravity seemed to me more appropriate to the character of a nurse, whose inclinations might be supposed to be more servile. |
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We are not called to be inferior, or infantile, or ingenuous in regard to the other, or to assume an attitude of servile passivity. |
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Russia today is ruled by the KGB elite, has a Soviet anthem, servile media, corrupt courts and a rubber-stamping parliament. |
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Africa's broadcast media, however, remain largely state-controlled and servile. |
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The definition derived from the above-mentioned Convention refers solely to the practice of forced or servile marriages in relation to women. |
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In memory, he was reviled as a servile race traitor, a cringing sycophant to white wealth and power. |
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They are not permitted to speak of that period of colonial history when they were ruled as a servile caste by a Tutsi elite. |
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I found that I reverted to a housewife stereotype as servile as my grandma. |
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It is not uncommon for a citizen in India to take off his shoes before entering the office of a policeman and genuflect in a lowly and servile manner. |
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My grandparents' generation wasn't quite so bad, but the only relationships they ever had with non-white people were ones where the non-whites were, essentially, servile. |
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Now, CH seems on the surface to be a very nice man indeed, although there was a little too much old-school servile behaviour on display from AS for my liking. |
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Where Don is confident and arrogant, Bob is servile and accommodating. |
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Like Woody Allen's Broadway Danny Rose, they tended to be servile schleppers in bad suits, handlers whose role was to schmooze, and to soothe show-business egos. |
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The short section on forced marriage focuses on servile marriage relationships, which stem from a woman's inferior position in society with respect to property and legal rights. |
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In both Malaysia and Singapore, where mainstream media have been largely servile in their treatment of the powers-that-be, the internet has changed the political landscape. |
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But apparently they are willing to be servile if it gets them outdoors. |
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An educated professional from a liberal Indian family, I hadn't been brought up to be servile with men, and eventually, this innate self-belief returned. |
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The philosopher's financial ease nevertheless seemed to crumble towards the end of his life, to the point that he regressed to the servile condition of courtesan in the Swedish court. |
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This not only tied them to their holdings but also made their social status essentially servile, since the exaction of labour services required the landlord's agents to exercise discipline over the coloni. |
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We know the slave by his servile character and the master by his herile character. |
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But they recreated them in suffering, in servile work, in extraordinarily precarious circumstances, thus becoming the founders of new cultures in the Caribbean. |
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We have not dealt with any Syrian or Libyan media because these two have appeared to us to be absolutely uninteresting, since they only relay in a servile manner the directives of the powers that be. |
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In snatching away the vision of Kashmiri children, the Indian state has decisively announced that it has only one message: you must be servile and submissive, and if you refuse, we will unleash our fury. |
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The Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery does not contain a definition, but specifically prohibits debt bondage, serfdom, servile forms of marriage and the exploitation of children and adolescents. |
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Secularism must be neither servile nor hostile to religion. It must manifest an attitude of neither blind deference nor indifference but of critical respect towards all religions. |
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It is a coward and servile humour, for a man to disguise and hide himselfe under a maske, and not dare to shew himselfe as he is. |
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For now to serve and to minister, servile and ministerial, are terms equivalent. |
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The authorities repeatedly emphasized that the kmet was not bound to his master, to counter allegations equating kmet tenure with servile status. |
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Below them ranked servile groups known as Haratin, a black population. |
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