subservience

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Recent Examples of subservience In the long run, the work of the Society is ultimately not subservience to Whites, but the saving of Black lives. Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2024 But even if Amorim’s assessment is correct, Brazil can gain support from the global North for Lula’s progressive vision only if his country maintains clear autonomy; any hint of subservience to China will draw Western backlash. Matias Spektor, Foreign Affairs, 28 Feb. 2024 In my view as a sociologist who studies race and ethnicity, part of the legal and systematic effort to maintain Black subservience was based in part on the white people’s fear that formerly enslaved Black people would be rebellious and unwilling to stay on the lower levels of society. Rodney Coates, The Conversation, 20 Feb. 2024 Do the rewards associated with subservience outweigh the benefits associated with rapid economic development, which can only be realized with reliable, on-demand power-generation? Noah Rothman, National Review, 18 Jan. 2024 See all Example Sentences for subservience 
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Noun
  • Our military serves the president as the leader and commander in chief of this country, with the acquiescence and the support of the Congress and the American people.
    Connor Donevan, NPR, 20 Nov. 2024
  • Republican Dwight Eisenhower’s election in 1952 resulted in GOP acquiescence in the New Deal’s expansion of federal authority.
    Carl Leubsdorf, The Mercury News, 25 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Yet electing to be private doesn’t amount to complaisance or complicity.
    Lesley M.M. Blume, Town & Country, 6 Dec. 2022
  • Sammy’s awareness of his mother’s infidelity, his father’s complaisance, and how both were relieved by his creative Boy Scout merit-badge projects and fantasies requires a separate article.
    Armond White, National Review, 16 Nov. 2022
Noun
  • Such deference to character development over world-building — especially considering the series leads the charge into DC’s new universe — is even more endearing than Gunn’s clear compassion for his misunderstood monsters.
    Ben Travers, IndieWire, 5 Dec. 2024
  • During Tuesday's episode of the Pod Save America podcast, Stephanie Cutter, Harris' campaign adviser, said the vice president wasn't willing to depart from the precedent of deference to the president during her campaign.
    Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 27 Nov. 2024

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“Subservience.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/subservience. Accessed 13 Dec. 2024.

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