"The contracts, the subcontracts, the blind contracts given to people, money thrown around to buy loyalties, money thrown around to buy submissiveness of Afghan government officials, to policies and designs that the Afghans would not agree to.
Girls to exhibit submissiveness and self-objectification, boys to express dominance and control.
This is seen, for example, in dogs and chimps, who reduce their height to show submissiveness.
Social behaviour includes social sniff and 'climb and follow', this type of social behaviour excludes attacks between the partners; in our study this behaviour was categorized as non-definable with regard to social submissiveness.
According to a study on fundamentalists' attitudes toward outgroups as a function of exposure to authoritative religious texts [8], submissiveness to religious authority is one of the main factors in the generation of religious fundamentalism.
To Macon the uncontainable free spirit, submissiveness to a man is just a ruse; submissiveness to "the lure of the unknown" is what she is after, and she has mighty big ideas, especially about her destiny.
Having accused former President Nicolas Sarkozy of submissiveness to Ms. Merkel, Mr. Hollande is choosing to ignore the symbolism of such a quick visit to Germany.
It is mind-boggling to me that Brzezinski and everyone else on the set of "Morning Joe" not only gave Charen a platform to peddle her dangerous ideas about women needing to embrace marriage and modesty and the traditional family ― coded (or not-so-coded) language for subjugation and submissiveness to men ― but also that they seemed to praise her for it.
Freud likened circumcision to castration and viewed it as a symbol of the Jewish people's submissiveness to God.
The extremes of Shelley's transformation — from submissiveness to grim vengefulness — leave little room for nuance, but her intelligent, insightful narration remains captivating.
