Whitehall knew the Chinese would swap a bad loan for a western kowtow, and the Queen's role had been to grovel.
The expressions of our genes are so complex, so beautiful and monstrous, that to marvel at the heights of nature's ingenuity is to grovel before the mountain of our ignorance.
They went straight into overdrive on the PR strategy which was to grovel and apologise and hope it went away – and after 48 hours, it did," he says.
Pawlenty likely hoped that making an appearance at that South Carolina debate would establish him as an electable conservative, but he's best remembered for being made to grovel over his previous support for cap and trade.
It might be easier for Lockhart if he was prepared to grovel and apologize for having done adult work but he's not ashamed of his sexuality.
The little people are attacking him, and he's expected to grovel and beg for forgiveness.
As much as he is forced to grovel and kowtow to sharks, he believes he's on the side of the angels.
From what I've been able to gather from these disciplinary hearings, the accused is supposed to grovel and grope for a last chance at resuming their job a job they hated enough to find themselves in this position in the first place.
Perhaps it was a stubborn rebellion against the whole Belgian history of constantly being forced to grovel to greater powers.
Davis Logsdon, who supervised the poll for the University of Minnesota, said that next Tuesday should be "a big night for oligarchs" and that both houses of Congress can be expected to grovel at the feet of their money-gushing paymasters for at least the next two years.
