Sentence examples for pliant from inspiring English sources

There is something uniquely pathetic about the parent who realises their smacking days are over because their once pliant, now muscular, child rises to height and hits them back.

To keep its grip, the regime uses its network of personal and official ties to Britain's too pliant monarchy, to gullible congressional politicians, and to business and investment leaders overly impressed by its $1tn £660bnn) in cash reserves and its global investment portfolio.

Shadow energy minister Tom Greatrex said shale gas could have a role to play in improving energy security, but added: "I would expect government to engage with key stakeholders, including businesses, but to do so in order to provide responsible leadership, not pliant cheerleading.

Tolokonnikova has also continued to appeal against her guilty verdict through the Moscow court system, and is one step away from it reaching the country's pliant supreme court.

On McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow, on Live at the Apollo, it's a clean, stylish affair with a high-status performer impressing a pliant crowd.

Iraq's prime minister, Nuri al-Maliki, who was recently in Tehran, is a pliant fellow Shia who once lived in Iran and gets on badly with Iran's main regional competitors, the Saudis and Turks, both Sunni.

A pliant Afghanistan would, the army reckoned, provide the strategic depth it needed should it ever have to fight India.

Mr Moi is barred by the constitution from standing, but hopes to nominate a pliant successor.

Republican voices are rising to the surface unreported in Thailand's pliant media.

Even some preachers loyal to the fiery Shia preacher Muqtada al-Sadr, who used to sneer at the notion of a fair vote under American occupation, have become far more pliant since he ended the uprising of his rebel Mahdi Army in the Shias' holiest city, Najaf, in August.

Thanks to a pliant legislature, the Mubarak regime was able to make dodgy transactions look legal.