Servile in a sentence

The fact that the gods can cause prophecies to be fulfilled, ridicule a man, and bring havoc to an entire society for an abomination is a strong case in point, serving as a reminder that African idols are not as servile as presumed.

He’s trying to hang on to his nobility; he’s supercilious, but at the same time, servile to the British.

Just how “sovereign” these new entities are is perhaps best illustrated by their infinitely servile relationship with the belligerent alliance, with Albania being perhaps the most extreme example.

Listen to his media buttosculators finally giving it the coverage it deserves, atoning for their servile, perfidious fealty: (YouTube: tinyurl.

Unquestioned leaders and servile followers tell us why the German army marched into Russia without overcoats — the leader had decreed that the campaign would be victorious by autumn, and that was that.

The others at the table nodded their heads in servile agreement.

People who think like that are well on their way to becoming servile subjects.

Replying to Infrastructure Malta, Prof. Cassola said he made no request for information to Infrastructure Malta because he did not have a servile mentality.

The icing on the cake is him accusing Moore of being an “employee” (of who? of God?) when Falwell himself is known for being one of Trump’s most servile evangelical surrogates owes his job to the fact of who his father was.

Yet the behaviour of other western governments since the Hong Kong crisis blew up has been no less servile.

Hence the importance of media control to our ruling clique (while ensuring that government-owned broadcasters are servile and co-opted).

He reminds me of everything that is unpleasant, servile, weak, ugly, uncouth, cowardly and dishonorable.

The concept of Race occurred while poor British citizens were seeking a refuge from a harsh caste system that guaranteed them a life of servile labor and economic exploitation.

Basava shunned the sharp hierarchical divisions that existed and sought to remove all distinctions between the hierarchically superior master class and the subordinate, servile class.

Crassus effectively ended the Third Servile War in 71 BC.

In the first day ye shall have a holy convocation; ye shall do no manner of servile work.

Laws of Constantine I around 325 both reinforced the semi-servile status of the coloni and limited their rights to sue in the courts; the Codex Theodosianus promulgated under Theodosius II extended these restrictions.

Only those who favor the exploitation of a servile coloured race for greed of gain, and a few professional economists and benighted theologians, are now heard in serious criticism of a White Australia; but.

Rebels 14th-century rural scene of reeve directing serfs, from the Queen Mary Psalter Chroniclers primarily described the rebels as rural serfs, using broad, derogatory Latin terms such as serviles rustici, servile genus and rusticitas.

The first is the midwifery was not a profession to which freeborn women of families that had enjoyed free status of several generations were attracted; therefore it seems that most midwives were of servile origin.