Sentence examples for supplicant from inspiring English sources

In Britain the ongoing revelations of wrongdoing within the Murdoch empire and the public humiliation of a media baron and his son may result in re-alignment in the relationship between politicians and the press, with the former becoming less supplicant to the latter.

Mr Wang then made the long trek to Beijing, a supplicant before the central authorities, who received his petition.On top of that, on his own initiative, this soft-spoken man with cropped hair and a blue canvas jacket, who writes out Chinese characters painfully slowly, started a campaign in newspapers along the country's eastern seaboard against the kidnapping of children.

When it is, the supplicant will probably be Spain, the fourth-largest euro-area economy.The government of Mariano Rajoy hopes that Spain can get a bail-out of its public finances (it has already won support for its banks) without having to sign up to harsher austerity measures than those it has already implemented.

The party's leader, Sergei Mironov, has been transformed from a loyal supplicant of Mr Putin (even though he nominally ran against him in March) into a stern critic.

IT STICKS in the gullet of the large majority of Zimbabwe's people yearning to see the back of Robert Mugabe that the man who should have displaced him four months ago by virtue of the ballot box has now been persuaded to engage in talks with him, seemingly more as supplicant than rightful successor.

A supplicant would have to pledge to put its public finances in order and undertake other economic reforms to persuade bond markets to renew lending.This sort of proposal attracts two main criticisms.

He said: "People are rejoicing because an Indian has bought the EIC – it is a symbol of redemption".Coming so soon after David Cameron spent three days as a supplicant on the sub-continent, trying to persuade its businessmen to invest in Britain, perhaps this is just a nicely-timed piece of post-colonial irony.

To assert that the EU needs Turkey more than the other way round sets the wrong tone, making it sound as though the supplicant is Brussels, not Ankara.Second, an enterprising foreign policy of the sort that Mr Davutoglu is pursuing can jar with the EU's own policy.

Perhaps this caution stems from Mr Sarkozy's worries about whether France is a creditor or a soon-to-be supplicant.

"My beloved God, I cannot live without you," writes a supplicant.

It requires a supplicant ruling party to vote through his diktats as handed down by a loyal prime minister, Shaukat Aziz (or "Short Cut", as Pakistanis know him).