Sentence examples for gesture of submission from inspiring English sources

Some people here see the renaming as a humiliation of sorts, a gesture of submission.

("Tapping out" is a gesture of submission used by a fighter locked in a hold of excruciating pain).

They spotted me and shouted, "The gorilla's here!" and I shuffled over and handed them the balloons and held up my paws in a gesture of submission.

Robert Hardman, writing in the Daily Mail, thought Corbyn "appeared to freeze rather than offer the ritual gesture of submission and salutation".

Corbyn was also criticised by the Daily Mail for appearing to "freeze, rather than offer the ritual gesture of submission and salutation", though the paper's Robert Hardman attributed this to nerves and acknowledged his "solemnity" on the day.

Coming from non-Muslims, it is likely that they will be interpreted as gestures of submission, and the submission of non-Muslims to Muslims is a significant concept in Islamic law — although I am sure Major General Hammond and his staff are unaware of this.

In 481 BC Xerxes sent ambassadors around Greece asking for earth and water as a gesture of their submission, but making the very deliberate omission of Athens and Sparta (both of whom were at open war with Persia).

Part gesture of appreciation, part admission of submission, Real Madrid's Galactico-in-chief showed what the Premier League is missing and why talk of a return to Manchester United must remain a pipe dream for now.

Are we meant to see Ruth's decision to abandon her academic husband and apparently agree to service his rough, working-class family as a gesture of feminist defiance or sexual submission?

This curt signature gesture, performed before his officers, is an expression of mastery and, at the same time, of submission — to duty, to Japan, and to death.

"They're really fantasies of submission".