Sentence examples for truckle from inspiring English sources

His past, they say, predisposes him to truckle to foreigners.

Here is Banville on the shifting self: "Is the oldster in his dotage the same that he was when he was an infant swaddled in his truckle bed?" Here is Black: "Isn't it strange to think... that people who are old now were young once, like us?

Unlike Clint Eastwood, who with far less warmth and energy has won equal acclaim for playing reticent, aging men of action, Wayne didn't truckle to our sentiments.

He was young and cocksure and he wouldn't truckle.

RICHMOND I truckle not with space-usurping villains!

Britons, fortified by a "much more active, muscular liberalism," Cameron told the audience, would no longer truckle to politically correct notions of passive tolerance.

Samuel Pepys rode down the hill with his wife and family on the evening of 11 June 1668, having lost his way on the downs, and "with great difficulty come about 10 at night to a little inn, where we were fain to go into a room where a pedlar was in bed, and made him rise; and there wife and I lay, and in a truckle-bed Betty Turner and Willet".

The rebels say the government truckles to the Saudis.Such reasoning comforts Yemenis, many of whom prefer to blame their troubles on regional power games.

Some leaders are resorting to more virulent Islamist language in order to fend off the charge of truckling to Israel.

Relations of the victims have carried black banners, accusing Mr Netanyahu of truckling to terrorists.In this section Why they count Looking south Boom boom What next?

The leaks sought in particular to damage the Palestinian leadership under Mahmoud Abbas, portraying it as truckling to the Israelis by offering more generous concessions than publicly admitted.