Sentence examples for compliant populace from inspiring English sources
Liberation, on the other hand, finds a grateful, compliant populace and involves restoration of civic and cultural institutions.
Patriotic education and embargoes on chocolate factories and hungry caterpillars may do less to create a compliant populace than it once did.
Conversely, societies composed of persons leading rich and fulfilling family lives (such as contemporary Singapore) tend to be ruled by paternalistic despots who can rely on a compliant, politically apathetic populace.
In the Scottish writer's bizarre opus, a Liverpudlian teenage delinquent named Dane reluctantly joins an underground resistance of occultists and psychics after discovering that the world is under the control of demonic cabals keeping the populace sedate and compliant.
The hollow call for freedom and individualism is designed to mobilize popular nostalgia for a lost world -- devout, quiescent, stratified, and masks the effort to render a desperate populace pliable and compliant.
"The apartheid government was so effective for so long because it had both a willing and compliant white population but also because it kept the white populace so through powerful propaganda, misinformation and lies, at every level of society and in every type of activity.
They had massacred the populace.
"India's populace was normal.
"Compliant girl seeks master".
