To environmentalists, as well as to a growing number of scientists and lawmakers, these facts add up to an inescapable conclusion: the nation must begin now to wean itself from its slavish dependence on oil.

We are still encouraged to guzzle gas without feeling guilty about our slavish dependence on allies like the one that spawned 15 of the 19 hijackers.

I don't like slavish dependence.

"But we did not have the same slavish dependence on the United States in Europe in respect to the size of the decline."

Halting and subdued in nature, its performance should be highly expressive, and freed from slavish dependence on note values.

The Jewish conception of the worship of God was not the slavish dependence that the goyim imagined but corresponded almost exactly to the philosophic ideal.

Rosenzweig passionately denied that the observance of the Torah encouraged a slavish, abject dependence upon a tyrannical God.

His slavish dependence upon his sources is made clear by the change in tone and style between the Eunapian and Olympiodoran sections, and by the muddled gap left in between them.

It is mainly women and children who are, by various false pretences, recruited into it, thereafter being exploited in slavish dependence.

First they got to cackle over the Northeast blackout, wherein tens of millions of denizens of the 21st century were rudely reminded of their slavish dependence upon this late-19th-century technology.