Sentences with phrase «from subservience»

Local authorities could be on the brink of a revolution freeing them from subservience to Whitehall, the leader of Manchester city council has claimed.

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In colonial possessions, however, where from the first subservience to the secular arm had been the rule, the attitude of passivity was not offset by a heritage of freedom.

Apparently the favoring condition was the freedom of the churches from state domination, as contrasted with the subservience in which the Church was kept by the state in other European possessions.

I'm sorry you think that we all need to believe the exact same thing that you do in order to lead moral lives, that you need a god (one described in a book written by men yet touted as the word of god as being a genocidal dictator who demands total subservience from his followers and death to those who don't believe) in order to tell the rest of us how we should live our lives.

He learns, through the revealing conversation with God, that his choice for humanization, wisdom, knowledge of good and bad, or autonomy really means at the same time also estrangement from the world, self - division, division of labor, toil, fearful knowledge of death, and the institution of inequality, rule, and subservience.

A self - harming character is mutated from within, a former addict lashes out, and a manipulator is forced into subservience.

And Ahaz the king is summoned peremptorily to Damascus where, in partial token of his subservience to Assyria, he arranges for the erection of an altar in the Temple in Jerusalem copied from an imported Assyrian altar in Damascus.

Many earnest Christians were unhappy over the absence of the Bishops of Rome from Rome and the subservience of the Papacy to France.

Petit is, without question, a narcissist who demands from his satellites complete subservience to his one - man goal.

In Coogler's film, the women of Wakanda are elevated from lazily constructed positions of subservience to become powerful characters with narrative - shaping responsibilities.

It's a problematic ideology because in essence is anti-democratic and totalitarian regime, it demands subservience to Allah, not just from believers but from everyone.

If dog owners consistently act in a manner that from the «dogs point of view» appears to show subservience, submission, fear or subordinance, then over time, the dog will begin to think that he is in fact superior to you.

One the best pieces is when Novella is attacked by Bliss and transformed into his thrall, as it's vibrant tones exemplify the change from determined hope to mindless subservience.

The great naturalist and realist, according to Stella's analysis, freed pictorial space from its former subservience to architecture and sculpture, making it «capable of dissolving its own perimeter and surface plane.»

«I can not imagine a viewer emerging from the rooms at Tate Modern and being sure that Richter's endless hovering around the fact of the photograph — his subservience and aggression towards the medium — had solved, or even properly framed, the problem of «painting and figuration» in our time,» notes T.J. Clark in his London Review of Books article about Richter's 2011 Tate Modern exhibition