Sentence examples for bowing from inspiring English sources

The word 'bowing' is correct and usable in written English
It can be used as a present participle of the verb 'bow', which means to bend the head or upper body as a sign of respect or greeting. Example: The queen's subjects were bowing before her as she made her way through the crowd.

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Bowing the knee to Angela Merkel would allow Greece to get access to the short-term finance that will allow it to pay its debts, but it will be political suicide for Syriza.

Sinn Fein is deeply opposed to putting the institutions on hold, which it sees as bowing to the unionist veto.

Whether that has fully had the desired effect can be debated after starting the season giving up two late goals, turning four points into just one in league play while at the same time bowing out of the CONCACAF Champions League.

But Warren had said her fear wasn't that Obama would weaken Dodd-Frank, but that if Republicans won the White House in 2016, the new president, bowing to Wall Street, might use trade deals to water down Dodd-Frank's protections.

We all knew in advance that there wasn't going to be any curtseying, bowing or scraping when the Queen arrived at the Irish president's official residence, but it still remained to be seen how the handshakes were going to be executed.

As a result of these headwinds, many of those working mothers who should have risen to the top – like Anne-Marie Slaughter, who rose to become the first woman of policy planning at the State Department –, ended up bowing out, concluding that it was impossible to have it all.

Bowing to investor pressure, the bank revoked an earlier offer to hand its chairman Douglas Flint a £2.25m award in shares.

Rick Santorum has been scary good at this; even after bowing out of the presidential race, he uses his earnest fearmongering to gin up excitement at venues such as the National Rifle Association convention and, more significantly, Republican gatherings at the county level, where his support can help the creeping far-right agenda that continues to eat away at civil rights in state legislatures.

She was able to use those documents—and interviews with diplomats and former hostages to confirm the European governments' involvement in the payments.Britain seems to have stuck to its policy of not bowing to demands which Ms Callimachi suggests led to the death of Edwin Dyer, a British tourist kidnapped in Mali in 2009.

Then, bowing to economic reality, they break their promises, leaving voters even angrier (and driving support for extremist parties).British politics has mostly been spared such hypocrisy until now.

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Or he could coax them off the streets by bowing, or appearing to bow, to their main demands.

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