Sentence examples for To obeisance from inspiring English sources
noun
Demonstration of an obedient attitude, especially by bowing deeply; a deep bow which demonstrates such an attitude.
For if prosecutors have a hard time pushing him around, so do clients, many of them accustomed to obeisance.
Soon after he seized power, General Musharraf went to Saudi Arabia, Islam's holiest land, to pay obeisance to King Fahd, only to be stunned by an intercession by Prince Abdullah to ask for clemency for Mr Sharif.
Douglass, according to Du Bois, was no accommodationist: he was not given to offering obeisance to white demands to maintain white political, social, and economic superiority over blacks.
They came to receive instructions and to pay obeisance to the General Secretary.
The main difference between the parties in this regard is that Republican candidates feel obliged for some incomprehensible reason to make obeisance to Donald J. Trump, and perhaps go off to eat mediocre pizza with him.
One is a martyr of the early church – a third-century bishop of Carthage who was put to death in AD258 by a proconsul of the emperor Valerian after refusing to pay obeisance to the pagan gods.
From there he sent emissaries to the caliph telling him to raze the walls of Baghdad and fill in the moat and come in person to make obeisance to Hulagu.
I, thus, disagree with Davidson who claims "Leone happens to be interpolating a philosophic discussion into a dialogue on love and consequently feels called upon to pay obeisance to the concepts of love and beauty".
The women pass through, to give obeisance to Bhitai's tomb.
"It's a way for them to pay obeisance to the NRA without changing the world as it is".
Pop hitmakers of 2002 gathered at Madison Square Garden on Thursday night to pay obeisance to a powerful radio station, WHTZ, in its annual Z100 Jingle Ball.
