Sentence examples for that docile from inspiring English sources

But a growing number of investor advocates, securities lawyers and former fund executives argue that docile mutual fund boards and passive securities regulators have left shareholders more vulnerable than they may realize.

In 1963, Ms. Friedan, the combative writer and activist, inspired a social revolution for women with "The Feminine Mystique," in which she debunked the myth of the postwar woman, that docile soul who tended home and hearth while happily forgoing her own ambitions and interests.

Pruitt speculates that docile behavior still exists because it is useful to the colony in small doses.

Ms. Tumelty's forceful Francis eventually insists that the docile Loretta enter the bathroom.

How is it possible that his docile, dull, quiet wife has turned into someone like this?

Italian legislators, realizing that a docile press is insufficient to protect them from Grillo's Web-based activism, have begun to retaliate.

A habit of ignoring inconvenient reality, and presuming that the docile media will go along, soon infects all aspects of policy.

"We've been admitting an inordinate number of rescued foxes that appear docile, unafraid and usually so disoriented they are unable to recognise food or water," he said.

"If the banks and the big corporations want a government in Brazil that is docile to financial capital and submissive to the State Department, then we can't help them," he said.

Having reached 134-1 on a pitch that remains docile, the hosts lost six wickets for 68 runs after lunch to a combination of fine seam bowling, poor shot selection and umpiring errors.

He seemed content with making a visual record, day after day, of that naked, statuary figure, of that slow, docile flesh, of that inexpressive face and those closed or, perhaps, fastidious eyes, of a knee bending or a breast tilting or a forefinger slowly removing a speck from a cheek.