1、To reduce to a position of subservience or submission.

2、To lie or creep in a prostrate position, as in subservience or humility.

3、I could not make subservience an automatic part of my behavior.

4、Under one, a small band of fanatics demands total obedience to an oppressive ideology, condemns women to subservience, and marks unbelievers for murder.

5、Gorbachev seems to have mastered it to perfection - critical in private, but in public a model of energetic subservience, a perfect heir apparent for the Kremlin old guard.

6、ZetaTalk Prediction 5/22/2010:Those above Beijing will find themselves hosting sputtering politicians, who will attempt to made demands and expecting subservience.

7、So subservience to a human king, native or foreign, is in these texts considered a rejection of the divine kingship, and it's seen as a breach of the covenant.

8、A mother may demand subservience from a daughter but not from a son; she may pressure one child to conform to her ambitious expectations, but allow another to go her own way.

9、The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure. 有权力的人毁于权力,有钱人毁于金钱,奴才毁于卑躬屈膝,寻欢作乐的人毁于享乐。