Now it was a mere appendage to capitalist Germany.

The states "did not consent to become mere appendages of the federal government" when they joined the union, he said.

States, upon ratification of the Constitution, did not consent to become mere appendages of the federal government.

Germany was nothing and the Italian states were mere appendages to Spanish dominion.

For a country divided between two cultures and sensitive about being a mere appendage to its superpower neighbor, that was something.

The proletariat would lose all its hard-won independent position and be reduced once more to a mere appendage of official bourgeois democracy.

It has a very large head which is broad, flat and depressed; the rest of the body appears to be a mere appendage.

The actors and the story are mere appendages of the action and pyrotechnics.

The committee was alarmed that the Convention seemed to attach fisheries policy to agriculture as a mere appendage.

Fisheries must no longer be regarded as a mere appendage of agriculture.