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

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)

Their dependent state was an unnatural state, and when the reaction came, the torrent swept all before it.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 44, June, 1861 Creator by Various

He points out the dependent state of his country in Europe, and asks: 'What is Portugal?'

From The Actress in High Life An Episode in Winter Quarters by Bowen, Sue Petigru