| The thrust of both books is his failure to protect the national interests of Britain and his abject subservience to the United States. |
| Dependency implies subservience in a power relationship which is highly asymmetrical. |
| Ian stood, his head down and eyes lowered, in his accustomed stance of subservience. |
| You can recognise the man in embryo, marked by strong subservience to those above and superciliousness to those below him. |
| He is obsessed with religion, with strict adherence to ceremony and unquestioning subservience to the teachings of the church. |
| This point about York's and Thursday's ultimate subservience to the army is iterated visually in the same scene. |
