All his actions were in subservience to the general plan.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Blind fealty and total subservience is not expected nor wanted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Balloon Juice » 2005 » June] Reference

Leaving out the difference in subservience to authority between Europeans and Americans, I wrote this in the comments.    From Wordnik.com.  [Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » My Climate Plan] Reference

Here it was before him, a courtroom and a judged bowed down in subservience by the machine to a divekeeper who swung a string of votes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Benefit of the Doubt] Reference

Here it was before him, a courtroom and a judge, bowed down in subservience by the machine to a dive-keeper who swung a string of votes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Benefit of the Doubt] Reference

Obama also doesn’t bow in subservience to Babtists like he does to Saudi Kings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Yet More Assaults on Speech] Reference

Your first step to subservience is to believe anything that comes from Micheal Moore!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Propeller Most Popular Stories] Reference

To me subservience is abject obedience.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-07-01] Reference

That's why what he's describing is better described as "subservience" than "compromise.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Why social conservatives should not argue — as Dennis Prager does — that a woman should have sex with her husband whether she's in the mood or not.] Reference

Mr. Sarkozy called the burqa "subservience," not religious garb.    From Wordnik.com.  [Signs of the Times] Reference

They have condemned the ruling, saying it shows Philippine "subservience" to the US, a former colonial power.    From Wordnik.com.  [BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition] Reference

'The BJP is for strategic partnership with the US but not for strategic subservience which is what the deal is about,' it said.    From Wordnik.com.  [India eNews] Reference

Clegg, whose Liberal Democrats voted against the U. S.-led Iraq war, has in the past questioned British "subservience" to U.S. interests.    From Wordnik.com.  [chron.com Chronicle] Reference

President Nicolas Sarkozy has previously said that the burqa was "not welcome" in France and described it as a symbol of women's "subservience," which could not be tolerated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deutsche Welle: DW-WORLD.DE] Reference

By his methods of patience and apparent subservience to.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woodrow Wilson as I Know Him] Reference

Thomas's dark skin heightened the feeling of subservience.    From Wordnik.com.  [Who Lied?] Reference

Good is that force within us which inspires men to acts of conformity and subservience.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Status Civilization] Reference

In spite of adverse legislation, and in spite of the scandalous subservience of certain.    From Wordnik.com.  [West Indian Fables by James Anthony Froude Explained by J. J. Thomas] Reference

Not a few of the Romans were chafing at their leader's subservience to a "Barbarian" queen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima] Reference

The problem with Webb: he doesn't have the soul of a vice president, a job that requires a degree of subservience.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Secret Conversation] Reference

He had an artist's soul, and would never consent to destroy the effect of a tale by slavish subservience to facts.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Girl Among the Anarchists] Reference

Hugh Lord Lovat, his father and himself were raised from the subservience of clansmen to the dignity of chieftains.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II.] Reference

Kathleen was beside her husband, watching in an amused manner the subservience of the master of men to the children.    From Wordnik.com.  [Grey Town An Australian Story] Reference

He made it a practice never to waste a word in any subservience to magistrates who showed an overbearing disposition.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lloyd George The Man and His Story] Reference

You think it strange, then, that they act as they do, in this perfect subservience to woman, knowing what I have said is true.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Youth of Jefferson A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764] Reference

He helped his superior out of the jacket with an ease that held no subservience but at the same time was correctly respectful.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mercenary] Reference

Some stared at us vacantly; others lowered their eyelids and rubbed their hands together softly, with a terrible subservience.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trapped in 'Black Russia' Letters June-November 1915] Reference

Their flowers obey the slightest touch with nice subservience, falling into their most exquisite combinations of color and form.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

The quality of the public service has been immeasurably improved, the subservience of office-holders to political chiefs abolished.    From Wordnik.com.  [Problems of Conduct] Reference

The point about Lorca's play is that it is rooted in Spanish life: obsessive concern with honour, female subservience and religious oppression.    From Wordnik.com.  [The House of Bilquis Bibi] Reference

The course of his crops will be disturbed by the necessity of some subservience to the peculiar wants of the country and the demands of the market.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808] Reference

Even America's most visible household hasn't offered much hope, veering from '50s-era subservience  (the Reagans) to boomer dysfunction (the Clintons).    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Model Marriage] Reference

Dark side: By stressing product design's slavish subservience to the bottom line, critics paint a dark side of the industry that many who work in it reject.    From Wordnik.com.  [Of Toasters And Tail Fins] Reference

He went up-stairs in a rebellious mood which found expression in invectives against womankind, its blindness, its wilfulness, its weak subservience to usage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale] Reference

Last month French President Nicolas Sarkozy declared the burqa to be "a sign of subservience" that "would not be welcome on the territory of the French Republic.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Why Fears Of A Muslim Takeover Are All Wrong] Reference

Still, Lula has in the past called for a default on Brazil's foreign debt and his party has promised to reduce what it calls Brazil's subservience to foreign interests.    From Wordnik.com.  [Can Lula Save Brazil?] Reference

The people are not to be trained in obedience and subservience to the state, but we have mainly to create in the minds of all people the capacity to recognize true leaders.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Psychology of Nations A Contribution to the Philosophy of History] Reference

Motherhood and marriage came first, not out of old-fashioned subservience to Lionel, who died in 1975, but based on an informed insistence on the larger importance of family.    From Wordnik.com.  [The End Of The Journey] Reference