All the while, Mr. Trump received copious amounts for himself, with the help of a compliant board.
Look up "totty" and you will be told that it is Royal Navy slang for "a young woman, especially if of a compliant nature, but not a whore".
But what makes Thailand especially attractive, Mr. Burdett said, "is the international reputation, whether deserved or not, of a compliant and bribable police force".
It was widely thought that the motive behind the charges was to remove Mr Chaudhry from office because he refused to offer assurances of a compliant judiciary ahead of elections.
ALSO OUT THIS WEEK DRIVE ANGRY Nicolas Cage as a career criminal who escapes from a Very Bad Place and, with the help of a compliant waitress (Amber Heard), attempts to rescue a kidnapped child.
The candidates on the ballot have been preselected in a politically motivated vetting process that has little purpose other than ensuring the election of a compliant president who will be loyal to Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
A company which has failed to deliver for passengers every day for the last year – and which only yesterday got its snout back in the public trough with another generous pile of taxpayers' cash, courtesy of a compliant DfT [Department for Transport] – has just announced record profits for its shareholders".
They add emphatically that no one is more capable than the people of Eastern and Central Europe to recognize the signs of a compliant America or a principled one: "We know from our own historical experience the difference between when the United States stood up for democratic values and when it did not.
Now the torch is passed to Patricia Clarkson, who just about rescues "Whatever Works," the new Woody Allen comedy about a waxwork (an aging New York Jewish intellectual) and a host of ancient artifacts (trio-playing buddies, worries about an indifferent cosmos, the desires of a compliant younger woman) being brought back to life.
He cast himself as the square-jawed dandy who, at the beginning of his first film, "Un Chien Andalou" (1929), impassively draws a straight razor across the eyeball of a compliant young woman without troubling to remove the cigarette from his mouth.
The conveniences of a compliant technology press are not to be underestimated.
