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 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

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

This dependent state of mind is far removed from virtue.

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

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