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

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

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 Carpenter, S. C. (Stephen Cullen)

This dependent state of mind is far removed from virtue.

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

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