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)
Degraded from the rank of allies, the Lazi were incessantly reminded, by words and actions, of their dependent state.
From History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4 by Milman, Henry Hart
He was miserably put upon; treated with less consideration than the servants; made to feel his dependent state daily and hourly by petty annoyances; and yet she could not openly interfere!
From Trevlyn Hold by Wood, Mrs. Henry
Archie naturally resented her allusion to his penniless and dependent state.
From Clark's Field by Herrick, Robert