Sentence examples for his compliant from inspiring English sources

His compliant board will become restive.

Indeed, Putin has long been regarded as the real power behind his compliant ally.

During his compliant and vacillating reign, in both Bohemia and Hungary, the nobility widely extended their powers and strengthened their hold over an already oppressed peasantry.

There were clear cases of child rape by Otto, albeit rape institutionally approved and arranged and organised by his compliant female secretary.

With his compliant and complicit wife, he dictates (absurd) meanings to words (shades of "1984") and deludes them on the nature of things.

He agrees not to attack the government's policies (and not to expose the grubby personal secrets of its members); in return, the government agrees to reshape its policies to suit the mogul's ideology; the mogul then whips his compliant reporters into line, and they produce the political propaganda he requires; the government rewards the mogul with lucrative favours for his business.

Rachel, whose guilt over the death triggers suppressed childhood memories, becomes increasingly self-destructive as she tries to break out of her psychological prison, while David takes ever more drastic measures to retain his dominance over his previously compliant wife.

In "The Counterlife," Philip Roth's novel of clashing and alternate identities, Nathan Zuckerman leaves his home in London to track down his brother, a New Jersey dentist who has forsaken both his family and Wendy, his highly compliant office assistant, and joined a settlement near Hebron.

She started life as the sexually abused child of an evangelical Christian father, who was also a closeted gay man who died of AIDS in 1983, and his eerily compliant wife, who after his death became a Christian therapist, lecturing on behalf of James Dobson's Focus on the Family about "overcoming" homosexuality.

Through Sept. 9 In one of his early videos the artist William Wegman flips a coin and adjusts his very compliant dog — a Weimaraner named Man Ray — accordingly.

Kent Steven Pasqualee) is the annoying alpha male, and Greg is his more compliant sidekick — at first.