" Although Mary seems hesitant, she responds by declaring: "Behold the handmaiden of the Lord.

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As one can easily imagine, efficiency is not the handmaiden of innovation.

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By making his historical scholarship the handmaiden of a vitriolic vengefulness, Mr Finkelstein overplays his hand and ultimately diminishes the impact of his case.

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Even the once-powerful Bank of Japan was considered its handmaiden.

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In time, he pleaded guilty to this: he came to see his growing impatience with the theatre as symptomatic of a need to express himself, instead of playing handmaiden to playwrights.

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Thus, Thrift may be the handmaiden of Enterprise.

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