Sentences with phrase «in subservience»

Leaving out the difference in subservience to authority between Europeans and Americans, I wrote this in the comments:

The lessons in subservience drilled into most Ethiopian girls did not prepare a young person for finding herself alone in the city; Sara was huddled in a doorway when Haregewoin found her.

His entire life was spent in subservience — willing servitude to Vespasian, and NO ONE doubts that.

Traditionally, this is exemplified in subservience to God.

>> admit that you've made a mistake, This is simply mind control, forcing others to act in subservience.

Not exact matches

It's common in people who spend a lot of time in front of a computer, but it signals subservience to those around you.

«We don't use the term employee at KIND because it has kind of acquired this connotation of subservience,» he says during an interview at the Entrepreneur 360 conference in New York City.

Defense attorneys have already said the 21 - year - old defendant committed all the crimes he is accused of, but they also contend Tsarnaev did so in an act of subservience to his older brother, not because of a personal passion.

«Yesterday we secured the failure of the plan by conservative forces in Greece and abroad to asphyxiate our country and we showed that Europe is a space for negotiation and mutually beneficial compromises and not a space for extermination, subservience and punishment,» Tsipras said.

What kind of person recommends subservience in women, dominance in men, and so quickly equates authority with force?

Subservience to us has consistently meant giving a free hand to our corporations even when this was not in the interest of the people.

He was thorough in his acceptance of the mistakes of religious groups who are dismissive of the brilliant contributions of free thinkers such as Hitchens and their intelligent questioning of the subservience of religious groups to their leaders.

We still need to do theology as well in those ways, but the Bible will help to remind us to keep those operations both subordinate to the larger imperatives of the life of the body and relativized by their greater subservience to the demands of one's respective host culture.

Mainline mission statistics have declined in part because we celebrate the partnership that has replaced subservience on the part of the former mission churches.

When Jesus told his followers to «pray for those who persecute you,» it was not in the spirit of subservience.

Beyond a question, this was the ideal cherished by a considerable group in Israel — such subservience for them was a mark of piety; it was obedience to the will of God.

Sadly, this is where we are in America; fear, servitude, subservience, or civil war.

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.

In the time of Jesus the coming of the anointed one was fervently longed for by many, in the face of the enforced subservience of the Jewish people to the RomanIn the time of Jesus the coming of the anointed one was fervently longed for by many, in the face of the enforced subservience of the Jewish people to the Romanin the face of the enforced subservience of the Jewish people to the Romans.

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.

But Ahaz was called to Damascus in the role of a vassal and, in partial token of subservience, arranged to have a pagan altar constructed in Jerusalem (II Kings 16:10 ff.)

Hasn't society moved beyond the casual acceptance of slavery and subservience of women that was the accepted norm back in his day?

In the area in which this subservience of the Church to the Roman state continued, Jesus had much less effect than in some regions where, because of the weakening or disappearance of that state, the Church obtained greater libertIn the area in which this subservience of the Church to the Roman state continued, Jesus had much less effect than in some regions where, because of the weakening or disappearance of that state, the Church obtained greater libertin which this subservience of the Church to the Roman state continued, Jesus had much less effect than in some regions where, because of the weakening or disappearance of that state, the Church obtained greater libertin some regions where, because of the weakening or disappearance of that state, the Church obtained greater liberty.

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.

I was a token neoconservative at the San Francisco Chronicle, the local sheet known for its subservience to the radical - liberal faction in the city's elite.

They have attempted on hundreds of occasion that lack of subservience to US sovereignty by repeatedly harbor known criminals in an attempt to avid the scandal of their prosecution, They also engage in ongoing financial fraud denying Americans their rightful revenues, and exploiting their own members.

As the King's account also reports of his grandfather Ahaz (in II 16:3), Manasseh reverted to child sacrifice (II 21:6); and, also like Ahaz, he introduced, no doubt under the guise of what continued to pass for Yahweh worship and the Yahweh cult, extraneous practices denoting Judah's subservience to Assyria.

The local tax collectors, who obtained the concession by bidding for it, and had to exact for the chief tax collector as much as possible in indirect taxes — e.g., tolls on imported goods — were indeed Jews, but because of their dishonorable practices, and no doubt also because of their subservience to an alien government, they were so hated and despised that they were not counted as members of the Jewish community, and all intercourse with them was avoided.

«Perhaps the time has now come... to take stock of where we are going... bearing in mind that sonar [what ultrasound was called at that time]... must never lose [its] subservience to the medical art and the paramount importance of the patient... Viewed with this sense of proportion sonar comes as a commodity only, although with many uses.

«This unnecessary show of subservience has been interpreted to imply a situation in which we are not the people in control of our destinies.

While he pushed for George Bush to support a two - state solution, his guiding political principle is of subservience to America's whim, which, in any practical sense, is Israel's whim.

In Lee's Bamboozled, he's invoked (alongside many other silent and early - sound - era performers) as a grotesque specter of racist Hollywood representation — the ghost of minstrelsy past — but writers like Mel Watkins and Champ Clark have complicated the issue by suggesting that there was an element of subversion in Perry's subservience — that the shiftless, feckless caricature he inhabited in so many movies was not a capitulation to the viewership (or the filmmakers) but a bold form of ethnic masqueradIn Lee's Bamboozled, he's invoked (alongside many other silent and early - sound - era performers) as a grotesque specter of racist Hollywood representation — the ghost of minstrelsy past — but writers like Mel Watkins and Champ Clark have complicated the issue by suggesting that there was an element of subversion in Perry's subservience — that the shiftless, feckless caricature he inhabited in so many movies was not a capitulation to the viewership (or the filmmakers) but a bold form of ethnic masqueradin Perry's subservience — that the shiftless, feckless caricature he inhabited in so many movies was not a capitulation to the viewership (or the filmmakers) but a bold form of ethnic masqueradin so many movies was not a capitulation to the viewership (or the filmmakers) but a bold form of ethnic masquerade.

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

That vision includes vehicles fuelled with blood, «Doof Warriors» playing flaming guitars as they hurtle into battle, CG used in respectful subservience to jaw - dropping practical stunts, and Hugh Keays - Byrne's Immortan Joe presiding over a religious cult seemingly inspired by a Duran Duran song that was inspired by the original Mad Max films («Wild Boys always shine», remember).

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.

But the Beauties» love, gentleness and subservience are not unconditional, and the changes they wreak in some of the men who love them are freakish.

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.

Spying, deception, blackmail, and total subservience; a laundry list of meddling mechanics awaits in Beholder: Complete Edition - a title that is a totalitarian simulator and landlord management game all rolled into one.

«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

Cast adrift, whether hand in hand or prostrated on their knees, they improvise a choreography of power, subservience, attraction, fear, suspicion, and turmoil.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) showed «subservience» to the UK courts in its recent decision on four British men detained in Saudi Arabia, a leading legal commentator has claimed.