But editorial subservience looks unlikely, given the newspaper's clout in its local market.

ECONOMIST: The press

But he is mindful that most Canadians are critical of Mr Bush's foreign policy, and are wary of subservience to their powerful neighbour.

ECONOMIST: Canada's new government

Aladeen insists on subservience from everyone, including his uncle Tamir (Ben Kingsley), who has Aladeen kidnapped and replaces him with a pliable double (also played by Baron Cohen).

NEWYORKER: Strongmen

Conservative, as well as liberal, courts have been activist and both have also, in different periods, exercised restraint, sometimes to the point of subservience to Congress or the president.

ECONOMIST: The politics of justice

His doctoral thesis in 1959 inquired into the political behaviour of blacks in Chicago, finding that their subservience to white powerbrokers was a way of getting benefits for themselves.

ECONOMIST: James Q. Wilson

From childhood on, she moves from subservience to subservience.

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On returning to Egypt, Qutb wrote a series of books, many from prison, denouncing jahiliyya (ignorance), a state of affairs he categorised as the domination of man over man, or rather subservience to man rather than to Allah.

ECONOMIST: In the name of Islam