dependent state
Example Sentences
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It was hard, she said, to shake off the dependent state of being a prisoner.
From New York Times ● Mar. 2, 2011
Sir R. Charles, Charles, these sentiments but ill become the dependent state in which Fortune has placed you.
From The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Vol I, No. 2, February 1810 by S. C. (Stephen Cullen) Carpenter
Annexation or confiscation are not compatible with our relations with this little dependent state.
From A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II by William Sleeman
Every invention of what is called science takes the human race farther and farther from nature, nearer and nearer to an artificial, unnatural and dependent state.
From Critical Studies by Ouida
The explanation of this lies in the wretchedly dependent state of native authorship at that time.
From A Study of Hawthorne by George Parsons Lathrop
