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

Their attempt to force an oligarchy upon every dependent state was an unwise policy, which made them generally odious.

From The Olynthiacs and the Phillippics of Demosthenes Literally translated with notes by Kennedy, Charles Rann

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

It does not, however, follow from this account, that there are no poor Quakers, or that members of this society are not born in a dependent state.

From A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 2 by Clarkson, Thomas

Indeed, this very word "own," which so long ago in our own tongue took to itself the symbol of possession, well exemplifies his dependent state.

From The Soul of the Far East by Lowell, Percival