Sentence examples for and obeisance from inspiring English sources

It goes on to look at power as the root of manipulation and obeisance.

And Huntsman's defeat was complete, not merely because he lost but because conventional politics — with all its compromises, hypocrisy and obeisance — won.

I think I even caught sight of him on TV, all long white hair and obeisance, in the greeting party at the door of the abbey.

Yet it was approved 31 to 30, in bipartisan homage to the N.R.A.'s power to stir politicians' fear and obeisance.

At the same time, nurses will never stop campaigning for a fundamental transformation to a more humane single-payer, expanded Medicare for all system not based on ability to pay and obeisance to the policy confines of insurance claims adjustors.

But the spectacle was somehow sadder for its subtlety, which underscored the bind that even the most cautious and conscientious administration official is in, the impossibility of finding some honorable balance of principle and obeisance, prudence and deference.

Muslim parents in the Netherlands rank conformity and moral obeisance higher and autonomy lower as parental goals compared to native Dutch parents, though much of this difference diminishes when educational level is taken into account (Pels and De Haan 2007; Pels et al. 2006).

But this is the sort of thinking that now predominates in conservative and Republican circles, and the obeisance of all the leading GOP presidential hopefuls shows just how deeply it has sunk in.

In one way or another, all the major broadcasters in the region rely on the Saudi market and pay obeisance to local standards of modesty and political discourse.

But that would conflict with the "big government radical" narrative this Republican Party has been relentlessly pushing about Obama ever since the stimulus as well as with the GOP's hard-line antigovernment posture and slavish obeisance to business (Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal and his obvious self-interest notwithstanding).

Huxley's toga of high-mindedness is woven of fine-sounding phrases and ritual obeisance to democracy, the founding fathers, the will of the people and the national interest.