subservient
tunduk
definition
adjective
she was subservient to her parents
prepared to obey others unquestioningly.
example
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.
By handling this case involving a head of state, the Korean judiciary will become either truly independent from political pressure or 'subservient' to its power.
There is good reason for this: Marx elucidated a theory of labor in which workers become 'subservient' to the objects they produce, a theory where people are not exalted by their labor, but devalued by it.
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.
They are worshipers of the culture of death, whose goal is one thing: to convert the world to their religion, thereby making everyone in the world 'subservient' to them, to their ideals, to their power.
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.
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.
This is an insider economy, where the entire economy is 'subservient' to the interests of a chosen few and their cronies.
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.
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.
It is very important to remember that the ornament is 'subservient' to the garden and not the other way around.
Pedagogical freedom is not an absolute; it is instrumental and 'subservient' to the university's overarching interest in promoting free inquiry and debate.
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.
The way the Secretary of State is conducting his foreign policy, there is no doubt left that all the policy decisions are right now 'subservient' to the need of capturing the terrorist.
In their case everything is 'subservient' to the economy.
It is often the case in arts writing that it is seen as 'subservient' to the art, that it's role can only be one of an obvious and didactic explicator of hidden meanings or that it should act as an interpreter of the artist's intentions.
Naturally, the role of the adaptive arm was initially 'subservient' to the defensive functions of the pre-existing innate arm.
She said: ‘We are determined to reach our goal - to empower women to live their own lives and not be 'subservient' to their husbands.’
In all these writers, the narrative self plays a 'subservient' role to the voices of others; the self is rarely placed in a consistent dominating position over others.
Was there some hidden agenda to keep all us colonial subjects docile and 'subservient' to the Great Empire by brainwashing our smarter students?
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.
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.
This case, the idea that the United States judicial system would be 'subservient' or subordinate to an International Court of Justice, or the world court, is mined-boggling.
Once defeated, the Zulu king became 'subservient' to British rule and lost control over the trade in the kingdom, including the trade in beads.
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.
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.
The village lad they ‘employ’ is very much 'subservient' to his ‘employers’.
Meanwhile, Richard explained, ‘the archbishops of York didn't want to be 'subservient' to the Archbishop of Canterbury’.
A form of marriage very popular among some groups then and now is the patriarchal, where the wife is 'subservient' to the husband.
We can ‘speak’ health and wealth into being because ‘the material world is 'subservient' to the spiritual one’.
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