Sentence examples for the complaisance from inspiring English sources

He is acid in his comments on the complaisance in the wartime British Foreign Office over Stalin's designs on Eastern Europe.

In breaking with the complaisance which his father, King Hussein, showed towards Hamas and its local ally, Jordan's powerful Muslim Brotherhood movement, Abdullah is also undoubtedly acting for his own, specifically Jordanian reasons.

A sense of Rivera's potential, as a good-will ambassador at large, explains the complaisance of Rockefellers and Fords, who must reasonably have expected that he could be bought.

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I would hardly suggest that money and education absolve women of body image anxieties, but it was also heartening to hear women talk about how their resources liberated them from having to doctor their appearance to please a man, freed them from the physical complaisance that the old version of exchange theory demanded.

There are many reasons for the relative complaisance of fans who chant "red army" as they ascend the steps to the Emirates Stadium.

Such an attitude is gov erned by the spirit of Munich, the spirit of complaisance and concession, and by the cowardly, self‐deception of com fortable societies and people who have lost the will to live a life of deprive tion, sacrifice and firmness.

He laid the blame on a certain complaisance at the firm that stemmed from relying too much on ratings agencies: "You know when you say the word mortgage, and then you hear it's rated AAA by the various agencies, that makes you feel very secure.

Many fear that without German complaisance, the E.U. will stutter to a stop.

But however inclined we might be to insist upon an unbounded complaisance in the executive to the inclinations of the people, we can with no propriety contend for a like complaisance to the humors of the Legislature.

This is the sort of humanistic complaisance that made many viewers consider "Borat" an unfair satire of the uneducated (plenty of doctrinaire rightists have a good education and a sophisticated style).