The change was marked by the retirement of Stadion, a man whose enterprising character, no less than his enthusiasm for reform, ill fitted him for the time of compromise and subservience now at hand.
There Metternich was all-powerful, and the keystone of his system was a guarded but profit-seeking subservience to Napoleon.
By his methods of patience and apparent subservience to Germany, he will convince the whole American people that no other course save war is possible.
While his enemies denounced his meekness and apparent subservience to German diplomacy, and while some went so far as to characterize his conduct as cowardly, he serenely moved on and forced Germany to a show-down.
The same may be said of observation in every country enlightened enough to have shaken off its subservience to an unquestioned and irresponsible priesthood: that is, of every country advanced enough to maintain dissent.
The treatment of the guilty in savage lands, and also in countries under a despotism, indicates the morals of rulers only,--except in so far as it points out the political subservience of the people.
It matters little whether all this subservience is yielded to the owner of an estate, or the sovereign of the country, represented by his police or soldiery.
Popular vanity, and the subservience of political representatives, are the chief dangers which remain to be alluded to; and there will probably be no republic for ages where these will not be found in the form of prevalent vices.
Corney will soon be back," he said, bitterly admiring the graceful subservience of Laetitia's figure to her father's weight on her arm.
The decline of the great poetic impulse does not yet reveal itself by sheer blindness to moral distinctions, or downright subservience to vice.
The choice, and occasionally the treatment, of these topics was modified to meet the spiritual exigences of the period, or the circumstances of the place, but ever insubservience to conventional standards derived from remote tradition.
Mr Dombey, to a man in your position from a man in mine, there is no show of subservience compatible with the transaction of business between us, that I should think sufficient.
His temper gave abundant promise of being imperious in after-life; and he had as hopeful an apprehension of his own importance, and the rightful subservience of all other things and persons to it, as heart could desire.
All other graces must do their part in assisting love, and all be exercised in subservienceto it, and with an intention, directly or remotely, to promote it.
Pretend not any other religious duties against your delights in God and holiness; but use them all in their propersubservience to this.
As to Philip IV, we have seen abundant instances of hissubservience to it, during his half-century of reign, and of his readiness to subordinate to it all other interests.
And the complete subservience of herself, the sublime transparency without subterfuge of her surrender, appealed to everything of chivalry which his nature held.
It is this subservience to them which has brought us to where we are.
Political subservience there is to Pompey; but he can laugh at Pompey, and did not dedicate to him his treatises De Republica, or De Legibus.
Even thesubservience of the age would not have endured words so boastful, nor would the glory of Cæsar have so tarnished itself.
In no other way can I explain to myself the feeling of subservience to Brutus which Cicero so generally expresses: it exists in none other of his relations of life.
The management of the prisoners being confided to the judgment of the governor, Lord Stanley deemed the chief cause of its many changes, and its subservience to colonial prosperity.
The individual importance of employers consoled them for their political dependence; and the subservience of transportation to their material prosperity, reconciled them to the restrictions it imposed.
Our diffidence was deemed truculence: our reluctance to accept a high doctrine of subservience was measured as insubordination.
The Naval Service perfected and exercised their engines of war, and drilled and seasoned their men to automaton-like subservience to their plans.
But the invisible and irresponsible ruler will have no motives for benevolence, and approve conduct pernicious to men because it is the best proof of a complete subservience to himself.
The church is a mere state machine worked insubservience to the sinister interest of the governing classes.
With an effort of which few women would have been capable, she recalled her fleeting senses in subservience to her will, and asked calmly to examine the trinket.
We distinguish the parts of speech, for instance, in subservienceto distinctions which we make in ideas.
Want of reflection and a blind subservience to the colours of the map has led some historians to call Roman victories defeats suffered by their country, even when that country is essentially so Roman, for instance, as Spain.
The more rudimentary the mind, the more real is its state of subservience to association and habit, which may then be properly termed its governing laws.
When we shake off our subservience to the pattern in poetry we shall have little use for the numerous works on the art of writing poetry.
The songs of the poet with lily white hands who writes about the dignity of toil and subservience to the employer will disappear.
But this is really a better disposition than a mean subservience to misfortune.
Doctor Chantry went simpering, and abasing himself before the French noble with the complete subservience of a Saxon when a Saxon does become subservient.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "subservience" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
