Sentence examples for docile on from inspiring English sources

"We were hyperactive on offense and docile on defense.

At first, Mr. Cianci says, "I was rather docile on the air," calling a couple of new buildings ugly, criticizing a tax break.

But while Mr. Wahlberg may have been aggressive and violent as a youth, he is, by all accounts, almost docile on movie sets.

Males retained for beef production are usually castrated to make them more docile on the range or in feedlots; with males intended for use as working oxen or bullocks, castration is practiced to make them more tractable at work.

Foxes caught in live traps are likely to be scared for their lives, which means that they have the potential to lash out and bite or scratch you, even if they appear docile on the surface.

To find out, Pruitt performed personality tests on dozens of A. studiosus spiders and then arranged them into 90 couples consisting of an aggressive pair, a docile pair, or an aggressive spider matched with a docile one.

These days, Russian thinking divides the world into America and its docile friends on one hand, and "sovereign" countries, like China, India and South Africa on the other.

But maintaining a balance between dissatisfied but docile environmentalists on one hand and drivers whose unhappiness stops just short of violence on the other will be a key to his re-election.

But now, after images of the campus police at the University of California, Davis, spraying the Kool-Aid-colored orange compound on docile protesters on Friday, pepper spray is a topic of national debate.

Women in these facilities, which are called rehabilitation centers, are paired with men who come seeking wives based in part on docile behavior, one woman told Human Rights Watch, which sent researchers to two of the Libyan centers.

It has now been more than a year, and the sun is still docile, in one of the deepest solar minimums on record.