Servitude
in sentence
37 examples of Servitude in a sentence
Tens of hundreds of people are enslaved in agriculture, in restaurants, in domestic servitude, and the list can go on.
Now it is illegal for fathers to sell their daughters into
servitude.
The origin of the word robot dates back more than a thousand years to the era of serfdom in central Europe when
servitude
was the currency for rent.
Those who were currently enslaved were forced to serve a period of indentured
servitude
until their mid-20s.
The transposition to the Civil War makes a nice change of pace, and adds a few subtexts (such as Ariel's
servitude
to Prosper/Prospero) that you might not otherwise see.
Is this the Patron Saint of the Star System at work, matching warring egos before sending them off to further penal
servitude
on the M-G-M lot? BUT. .
The Whites are all the bosses and they expect Black
servitude
without question.
"Caught" puts Joe and Betty, a Hispanic couple, in the same situation with the exception that Joe neither knows of or allowed for his guest Nick to show that kind of gratitude for the hospitality offered through his
servitude
at the couple's fish market and home.
This gives China added leverage, which it can use, say, to force borrowers to swap debt for equity, thereby expanding China’s global footprint by trapping a growing number of countries in debt
servitude.
Indentured
servitude
and debtors’ prisons have also been illegal since the nineteenth century.
Of course, some extreme philosophical individualists believe that appealing to a greater collective is pure humbug, concocted to get voters to accept voluntary
servitude.
In the artistic imagination of Europeans, America has become associated more with
servitude
than with freedom.
Bankruptcy laws were amended to introduce a system of “partial indentured servitude.”
With millions of people still victimized by modern forms of involuntary servitude, there is no time to waste.
It can mean the difference between safety and fear, freedom and servitude, and even life and death.
Sri Lanka, despite having slipped into debt
servitude
to China, recently turned away a Chinese submarine attempting to dock at the Chinese-owned Colombo container terminal.
But there is an important caveat to all this: left to the market, the gains from automation will be captured mainly by owners of the technology companies and highly educated “knowledge workers,” leaving the rest of the population unemployed or in physical and intellectual
servitude.
The second camp, epitomized by Poland, favors “strategic servitude,” and wants to double down on the transatlantic relationship by purchasing more US equipment and establishing “Fort Trumps” to keep the US engaged on the continent.
For example, the kingdoms and states of Central and Western Europe abolished serfdom once it became clear in the aftermath of devastating pestilence that dependency and
servitude
jeopardized leaders’ hold on power.
Critics of the CFA franc zone have long focused on France’s perceived dominance, which many believe has resulted in what the late Cameroonian economist Joseph Tchundjang Pouemi called CFA Africa’s “monetary servitude.”
Satyarthi’s vision is to ensure that birth is never an automatic sentence to a life of
servitude.
Thus stood before these radiant bourgeois this half-century of
servitude.
The gaoler brought him in two gaolbirds who had repeated their offence and were waiting to be sent back to penal
servitude.
He was in a morbidly nervous state by this time, and he pictured the trial, and his trying to explain the circumstances to the jury, and nobody believing him, and his being sentenced to twenty years' penal servitude, and his mother dying of a broken heart.
Will your master liberate the slaves of his subjects should he succeed in subduing the new states, or will he condemn the whites to the same
servitude
as that in which he has been so long content to see the blacks?
He smiled at that part, and said he should like the last the best of the two, for he had a kind of horror upon his mind at his being sent over to the plantations, as Romans sent condemned slaves to work in the mines; that he thought the passage into another state, let it be what it would, much more tolerable at the gallows, and that this was the general notion of all the gentlemen who were driven by the exigence of their fortunes to take the road; that at the place of execution there was at least an end of all the miseries of the present state, and as for what was to follow, a man was, in his opinion, as likely to repent sincerely in the last fortnight of his life, under the pressures and agonies of a jail and the condemned hole, as he would ever be in the woods and wilderness of America; that
servitude
and hard labour were things gentlemen could never stoop to; that it was but the way to force them to be their own executioners afterwards, which was much worse; and that therefore he could not have any patience when he did but think of being transported.
I told him he frighted and terrified himself with that which had no terror in it; that if he had money, as I was glad to hear he had, he might not only avoid the
servitude
supposed to be the consequence of transportation, but begin the world upon a new foundation, and that such a one as he could not fail of success in, with the common application usual in such cases; that he could not but call to mind that is was what I had recommended to him many years before and had proposed it for our mutual subsistence and restoring our fortunes in the world; and I would tell him now, that to convince him both of the certainty of it and of my being fully acquainted with the method, and also fully satisfied in the probability of success, he should first see me deliver myself from the necessity of going over at all, and then that I would go with him freely, and of my own choice, and perhaps carry enough with me to satisfy him that I did not offer it for want of being able to live without assistance from him, but that I thought our mutual misfortunes had been such as were sufficient to reconcile us both to quitting this part of the world, and living where nobody could upbraid us with what was past, or we be in any dread of a prison, and without agonies of a condemned hole to drive us to it; this where we should look back on all our past disasters with infinite satisfaction, when we should consider that our enemies should entirely forget us, and that we should live as new people in a new world, nobody having anything to say to us, or we to them.
"Remember, Watson that though we have so homely a thing as a goose at one end of this chain, we have at the other a man who will certainly get seven years' penal
servitude
unless we can establish his innocence.
The Emperor of Constantinople, to oppose his neighbours, sent ten thousand Turks into Greece, who, on the war being finished, were not willing to quit; this was the beginning of the
servitude
of Greece to the infidels.
The three Sikhs got penal
servitude
for life, and I was condemned to death, though my sentence was afterwards commuted into the same as the others.
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