“By handling this case involving a head of state, the Korean judiciary will become either truly independent from political pressure or subservient to its power.”
“Mandarins of the law viewed the courts as agents of social change and the law as contingent, evolutionary, and ultimately subservient to political expediency.”
“Adopting this approach also will drop digital literacy as the primary concern of the day to a subservient issue.”
subserviated
simple past tense and past participle of subserviate