subservient
服从
definition
adjective
she was subservient to her parents
prepared to obey others unquestioningly.
translation of 'subservient'
adjective
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example
Was there some hidden agenda to keep all us colonial subjects docile and 'subservient' to the Great Empire by brainwashing our smarter students?
It is very important to remember that the ornament is 'subservient' to the garden and not the other way around.
The piano does play a more 'subservient' role in the Rachmaninoff, as the cello carries the bulk of the melodic development, but Kay provides solid support throughout.
The unit's public affairs officers are 'subservient' to the information operations experts, military and defense officials said.
Time after time they referred to his conflict of interest he owns most of Italy's commercial televisions stations and accused him of trying to make Europe 'subservient' to the US.
The UK government should not become 'subservient' to an all-powerful Frankfurt, just like local government has little power in the UK at the moment.
The increasing economic value of education is good news in a society that strives to make economic opportunity 'subservient' to individual merit, rather than family background.
She is meek and 'subservient' to the needs of her God.
Once defeated, the Zulu king became 'subservient' to British rule and lost control over the trade in the kingdom, including the trade in beads.
Representatives who have been so nominated by their leaders, once elected to office as parliamentarians and councillors, become 'subservient' to these leaders.
Nigerian women are very 'subservient' to their men, so the project encourages personal development so that the women can become more assertive in deciding on a better life for themselves and their families.
Pedagogical freedom is not an absolute; it is instrumental and 'subservient' to the university's overarching interest in promoting free inquiry and debate.
Amidst this, the economic policies of any one government will always be 'subservient' to its quest to secure the external and internal sovereignty of the state.
There is a need to look within because, in countries across the world, religion has become 'subservient' to local tradition and women have been victimised in a patriarchal society.
He is a hardcore Libertarian who wishes nothing more than to reduce the working class to an endentured slave class, 'subservient' to the will of Corporate Fascism.
While accountants take confidentiality seriously, as a core value it is 'subservient' to their attestation role.
The village lad they ‘employ’ is very much 'subservient' to his ‘employers’.
What this means is that Legco, which has little political power to begin with, is controlled by conservative forces 'subservient' to Beijing and the Hong Kong government.
Naturally, the role of the adaptive arm was initially 'subservient' to the defensive functions of the pre-existing innate arm.
A form of marriage very popular among some groups then and now is the patriarchal, where the wife is 'subservient' to the husband.
In their case everything is 'subservient' to the economy.
We can ‘speak’ health and wealth into being because ‘the material world is 'subservient' to the spiritual one’.
Pearson spoke about how working women carry the puzzle of family life in their heads, their list of never-ending tasks and how their modest desire for time to themselves becomes 'subservient' to everyone else's needs.
For much of the twentieth century, mandarins of the law viewed the courts as agents of social change and the law as contingent, evolutionary, and ultimately 'subservient' to political expediency.
A court could likewise restrict a father's teaching his children that women must be 'subservient' to men, since such speech might undermine the mother's authority.
When Kennedy ran for president in 1960 he went to great lengths to deny that his religious beliefs would make him 'subservient' to the Catholic church and not the U.S. constitution.
Even in the United States, where the private media are almost invariably 'subservient' to corporate interests, journalists generally do not cite polls by pollsters who have publicly partisan connections.
If nothing else, this administration provides some space for the emergence of a post-civil rights black leadership not 'subservient' to the Democratic Party.
Meanwhile, Richard explained, ‘the archbishops of York didn't want to be 'subservient' to the Archbishop of Canterbury’.
Again, not much of a case here, because company agendas of cost-cutting, profit-chasing and shareholder value are not 'subservient' to retaining skilled and committed workforces.
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