Examples of using Servile in English and their translations into Chinese
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Over the years, however, the idea that forced and early marriages are forms of slavery and, therefore, servile marriage has been lost.
Legislators may consider updating this definition to include practices in which both women/girls and men/boys can be the subject of forced or servile marriages.
Such beliefs and practices cannot, however, be used to justify servile marriage.
Under the Supplementary Slavery Convention, States parties are to bring about the complete abolition or abandonment of slavery-like institutions and practices, such as servile marriage.
Gender inequality also contributes to servile marriage through its impact on formal legal systems.
In some cases, although laws may be in place to protect women and girls from servile marriage, the authorities fail to prosecute the perpetrators.
States should also adopt all appropriate educational measures to modify the social and cultural patterns of conduct that foster cultural practices among families that lead to servile marriage.
He remained loyal, almost servile- the ever revolving little moon around Darwin's glittering and far grander planet.
For there is nothing servile in this act of respect, it being usual among the Northern races.
In some cases, the parents force a bride into a servile marriage to improve their economic situation or to pay off the family' s debts.
Both the Palestinian Authority and Hamas's Gaza government have become servile proxy authorities, stabilizing a captive population under Israel hegemony.
He said that dogs were not loyal but servile, that cats were opportunists and traitors, that peacocks were heralds of death, that macaws were….
Every servile worshipper of riches who had helped to set him on his pedestal, would have done better to worship the Devil point-blank.
The Supreme Court of Justice(…)[is a] servile instrument(s) of the President.
He has come among a supple, glib-tongued tribe, who live for show, servile to public opinion.
This fear spread throughout Rome, as the first two Servile Wars had already taken their toll on the population.
Such joint action also sends a long-overdue signal to the despots of Riyadh- that Westerners have thrown off their servile obeisance to their writ.
During the reign of St. Louis in France, for example, almost the entire population consisted of persons whose status was described as servile.
Only that position can impart dignity in which we do not appear as servile tools but rather create independently within our circle.
These sayings were rife in Talbot county, and they distinguished me among my servile brethren.