subserviently

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• She said that because social pressures and threats of violence – as well as actual violence – force heterosexuality on women, that made women dependent on and subservient to men in all areas of life, including gender roles and sexual expression.

• In Venice in the 16th and 17th centuries, it was generally the eldest brother who was permitted to marry, after which younger brothers would live with him and his family, dependent and subservient.

• He calls for reforms that make finance subservient to industry and for the redistribution of wealth.

• After World War II, there was a long phase in which central banks were subservient to governments.

• You posit that talking about the aesthetics of scent in traditional aesthetic terms makes scent subservient to other disciplines.

• The age-old role of women being sexually subservient and men the sexual masters had effectively ended.

• He then called on conservative women “to let them know that we are not going to have our men become subservient.”

• This didn't seem like the old, subservient Jim she was familiar with and she disliked his plainness of speech.

• Since the Croen were few, they began to recruit from among the Zervs and other groups who were subservient to the Schrees.

• He formed a design for making these lands more subservient to the purpose of emigration than they had hitherto been.

• In the old time the kings aspired to be the head of the Spanish Church, and were none too subservient to the Pope.

• Bute and his master thought they had secured a useful tool, a subservient and hard-working drudge.