| In the Roman successor states of western Europe, the feudal system contained a hint of servility in the act of homage that liege lords found it unwise to presume upon. |
| The servility typically demanded of the occupation is one of the strongest violations of human rights. |
| Hotel Deluxe explores the rise of these grand palaces of relaxation and servility where real life, and occasionally morality, are suspended. |
| The workers' militancy has been undercut by the servility of the trade-union leaders. |
| We think we assert ourselves by them, but it is they who assert the degree of servility to which they have reduced us. |
| In no other does the spirit of servility and boot-licking display itself so openly and shamelessly. |
