The pro athlete, and his once-servile relationship to owners and league management, had changed, too.
Laos's terror of looking foolish before Hanoi shows once again how servile is its relationship with Vietnam.
First, it must be affirmed that, as with ancient Greeks, Americans find bows, prostrations, and other servile gestures distasteful.
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The movie is exactly what you would expect: spirited, efficient, glazed with effects, and almost servile in its fidelity to the novel.
With little faith in the kindness of their erstwhile servile ethnicities, these insurgent groups can easily tap into the anxieties of the greater Sunni polity.
Vladimiro was very servile when he was in the presence of Fujimori but had actually been successful in defeating terrorism and destroying the drug-trafficking machinery.
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In both Malaysia and Singapore, where mainstream media have been largely servile in their treatment of the powers-that-be, the internet has changed the political landscape.
Analysts believe the current president, Almazbek Atambayev, has worked behind the scenes to bring down the government, in hopes of getting a more servile prime minister.
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And Russian television, which most Belarussians already prefer to the stunningly boring and servile local programmes, could undermine him as brutally as it did Mr Putin's opponents in Russia.
Only a few, the old ones, covered their insolence with glacial politeness, while the younger ones became either servile or friendly to the point of taking liberties, thinking thereby to win her favor.
This servile act, her small face frowning as she worked at his shirt buttons, excited him so that he ceased to feel nervous, out on a limb ceased to listen to the rain and wind.
He tried to help them in any way he could, offering to render the sorts of little services one might expect from a secretary or a valet rather than a colleague, for which he was reproached by a writer of his own generation, who called him obsequious and servile.
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