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

This dependent state of mind is far removed from virtue.

From The Eve of the French Revolution by Lowell, Edward J. (Edward Jackson)

If his dependent state irked him, his hosts did not perceive it.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15 by Various

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 Sleeman, William

His behaviour in this dependent state, was the very reverse of what it should have been.

From The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume V. by Cibber, Theophilus