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The rest were left with little choice but to kowtow.
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He was respectful without seeming to kowtow to the legislators.
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Nor would he kowtow to any asshole, record company or manager.
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But any alternative is preferable to continuing to kowtow to Washington.
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Being seen to kowtow to China presents its own risks nowadays.
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But Europe's reticence to kowtow to Trump's desires is nothing new.
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Was this a shameful kowtow to Beijing or a bureaucratic oversight?
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I'm not going to sit there and kowtow to some diva's demands.
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"Don't be an opportunist and kowtow to radical forces," the newspaper wrote.
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But more importantly, it's not just a statement or kowtow to government regulations.
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The President certainly doesn't kowtow to Murdoch, but Murdoch also doesn't to him.
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" Because he would have to "kowtow to both Beijing and [President Donald] Trump.
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The senator outrages the emperor by refusing to kowtow to his backward religion.
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These four states will likely be the first to kowtow to Trump's wishes.
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"I don't think anyone should kowtow to the extremes on either side," he said.
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So the leaders of that organization have to kowtow to those kinds of powers.
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Mr Powell may also need to signal that he will not kowtow to Mr Trump.
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I refused to kowtow to trauma pimps concerned with marketing our marginalization over our social advancement.
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IN 1793 the leader of Britain's first mission to China, George Macartney, refused to kowtow to the emperor.
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RootBocks' web host stated that they will discontinue hosting services b/c we refuse to kowtow to censorship.
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You write that debates over the kowtow and their supposed effect on future relations are not clear-cut.
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The gold-standard shelter magazine runs on a brass-tacks budget and refuses to kowtow to the internet.
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Both kowtow to the wealthy grandfather, Old Man Beckersted, who ultimately controls the purse strings and loathes them both.
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He refused to kowtow to China, inviting the Dalai Lama to visit (though in the end he did not).
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If Trump and other Republicans kowtow to this faction, the governing party will be taking its own government hostage.
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A kowtow, a mea culpa, combined with the promise to fix things fast and behave properly in the future.
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And it is a message that unless you kowtow to the old order this is what will happen to you.
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And it is the message that unless you kowtow to an old order, this is what will happen to you.
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And it is a message that unless you kowtow to an old order, this is what will happen to you.
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In fact, the PML-N, like the opposition, is keener to kowtow to the army than to defend media freedom.
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When we can refuse to kowtow to prescriptions and permissions, but just march on in the shoes we fancy wearing?
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Trump won't kowtow to those interests, which might give Republicans enough cover to actually put some accomplishments on the board.
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Just as appearing to stand up to the authorities can burnish corporate reputations, seeming to kowtow to them can do harm.
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Which is to say that the hysteria about the kowtow really says more about Great Britain than it does about China.
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"Disenfranchised citizens must kowtow before a panel of high-level government officials over which Florida's governor has absolute veto authority," Walker wrote.
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The dominant storylines on Biden have focused on his age, his gaffes and his unwillingness to kowtow to the party's liberal wing.
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That's exactly why keeping the film's mysteries intact feels less like a kowtow to studio policy, and more like an act of kindness.
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There's a particularly absurdist air to their simultaneous attempts to steer him, please him, kowtow to him, and maintain real friendships with him.
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Instead, there's a requirement that they kowtow to his ego, even if the recovery work is hitting wall after wall of red tape.
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Britain's early diplomacy with China introduced the word "kowtow" to the English language, from the Qing court ceremony of prostrating before the emperor.
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As the British saw it, the kowtow was a national humiliation — basically, their ambassador was being asked to abase himself before China's emperor.
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The irony of this is that actually neither of Britain's ambassadors to China before the war were refused audiences for declining to kowtow.
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It worked really well, though, for the hypocrites who want to kowtow to the religious right without any concern for the inevitable consequences.
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And when Rhea leaves the CEO job behind, it's clear that rage will only go so far in getting others to kowtow to him.
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Many people consider the Fiji Times to be the last independent media voice in a country where many news outlets kowtow to the government.
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But his willingness to kowtow to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's desire to go after Kurdish forces has induced a political and humanitarian crisis.
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Democrats have to embrace school choice, as Trump has proposed, recognizing that to kowtow to the teachers union is a failure politically and substantively.
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He is counting on the support of nationalists more interested in seeing him take a hard line on Kurdish militants than kowtow to Brussels.
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The MTR "cannot kowtow to radical forces or offer protesters special services far beyond what the public expects," said one Global Times opinion piece.
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This weekend is a symbol of what many people hate about Washington: its chummy elite networks and its denizens who reflexively kowtow to the powerful.
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We deserve a country run by democratic principles, and a Congress of responsible leaders who do their job and don't kowtow to power-grabbing demagogues.
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Politicians, it seems, have a license to behave badly, made possible by technology companies that kowtow to the powerful rather than stand up to them.
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And his praise of Republicans suggests he has no plans to kowtow to the constituency that ushered in one the most diverse Congresses in history.
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It is rumoured that Google Play, its app store for Android smartphones, may arrive in China soon (which would require the firm to kowtow to censors).
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Liberated from the need to kowtow to Trump, he excoriated his wife's boss on Monday for undermining the very people who would have been his colleagues.
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Because while Franklin Graham, Robert Jeffress, and Jerry Falwell Jr. speak for the evangelical hardliners when they kowtow to the Oval Office, they don't represent everyone.
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In 2016, after the cosmetics company Lancôme cancelled a concert featuring Ho, Hong Kongers boycotted its products, furious that a major corporation would "kowtow" to Beijing.
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Analysts said he shared their worldview, in which Pakistan would kowtow less to the United States and talk more with the Taliban and other extremist groups.
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What's next: Don't expect Powell to kowtow to Trump's tweets, but the awful performance of the stock market in December has to have changed his thinking somewhat.
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It's almost like post-Tommen's death, she doesn't understand why they wouldn't just kowtow — particularly Jaime, who she's been able to quietly manipulate for their entire lives.
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His flattery of Trump began small, as routine ingratiation -- a phone call, a private kowtow, with a limited audience of diplomats and officials inured to this dynamic.
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Why does Elon Musk refuse to kowtow to East Coast centrism and do these things when most of the country isn't sleeping or at a bar somewhere?
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According to Cohen, he spent years doing unethical or illegal acts for Trump, but the one thing he could not abide was watching Trump kowtow to Putin.
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Another highlight is Sheida Soleimani's riotous takeover of the Edel Assanti booth with her project Medium of Exchange, which lampoons politicians who kowtow to the oil industry.
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Every concept car comes with a caveat: As the design moves to production, certain features will be dropped to reduce cost, simplify manufacturing, or kowtow to regulations.
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"He's not going to kowtow to anybody, there are no sacred cows that he won't move out of the way, and that still apparently resonates," she said.
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Either stand up for the values we believe in or kowtow to the very people we believe pose the gravest danger to civilized society in the West.
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David Webb, a respected activist investor, called Cathay's concessions "the most appalling kowtow to Peking" and said that its "shameful appeasement" had done great damage to its brand.
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His attorneys contend that the Justice Department violated established FBI procedures when he was dismissed in 2018, dismissing him in a legally improper effort to kowtow to Trump.
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Liberal voters are not interested in candidates who kowtow to the white nationalists in the Rust Belt who not only voted for Trump but still cheer for him.
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If Trump withholds funds, it would be detrimental to local law enforcement — which would be anathema to the very supporters Trump is trying to kowtow to with this order.
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The Dreslyn: From Rick Owens Lilies dresses to Kowtow printed jumpsuits, The Dreslyn carries a huge range of pieces by of-the-moment designers, including lots of new discoveries.
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Amazon and Deliveroo are preparing to fight back against a UK competition probe which threatens to kowtow the retail giant&aposs multimillion-dollar investment into the UK delivery startup.
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And it's not as if Trump has attempted to hide his dislike of Sessions and Rosenstein, believing they didn't sufficiently kowtow to him in shutting down Robert Mueller's investigation.
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On the eve of the Helsinki summit, which Trump has arranged as a very intime pas de deux, it is still befuddling and alarming to watch him kowtow to Putin.
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I blame him for the disappearance from view of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, America's foremost agency for fighting infectious disease, now forced to kowtow to Trump's ego.
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Otherwise, if American business continues to kowtow, some day there may be a knock on the door, and there'll be "Uncle Xi" sternly asking us to hand over Pooh Bear.
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It made it harder to watch the debate, though, as I saw good people -- and many of the House Republicans are indeed good people -- kowtow to this malignant, malevolent man.
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They say if that were the case, Britain's bargaining position would be strengthened because it would not have to kowtow to the demands of the other 27 EU members to rejoin.
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What's new: Historically, OPEC's power derived from anxieties about scarce future oil supply, and Western industrial nations had to kowtow to ensure oil supplies did not get reduced or cut off.
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Trump's wealth may also be attractive to Muslim Republicans for another reason: It could mean he doesn't need to kowtow to the big financial donors who have traditionally funded Republican candidates.
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The kowtow even became a sort of hindsight logic for the Opium War: Britain had to fight that war, the reasoning went, because the Chinese refused to treat Westerners as equals.
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Ultimately, he did not have to kowtow to the fashion world, because the fashion world (and the art world and the literary world and the music world) came back to him.
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They're going to be bearing most of the cutback if they pull it off, and they've had to really kowtow to the Iranians in this whole thing," Kilduff told CNBC's "Power Lunch.
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As of writing, it's unclear whether General Mills will kowtow to critics who pine for the sweet, gritty taste of preservative-laden nostalgia in the former incarnation of its refrigerated cookie dough.
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Should it kowtow to the demands of the Chinese government and sack staff who participate in the protests in Hong Kong, or should it meet its responsibilities to its employees and society?
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When Mr. Roh was elected president in 2002, declaring that he would be the first South Korean president not to "kowtow to the Americans," Mr. Moon served as his chief of staff.
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And while we're not sure if officials will kowtow to renaming that trail the Moose Run, the footage proves that for the moose part, it's the most elk-citing spot on the mountain.
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"If you show your willingness to back down and kowtow to the party, the party considers you a pushover," said Maya Wang, a senior China researcher at Human Rights Watch in Hong Kong.
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"The people who quickly condemn this in the U.S., they do so either to kowtow to China or to attack Trump," Kwang-yin Liu, a reporter at CommonWealth Magazine in Taipei, told me.
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"The votes tonight are really about whether we are prepared to stand up for ordinary Americans or whether we're going to continue to kowtow to the insurance industry and the pharmaceutical industry," he said.
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The nation would, the administration had expected, go along with another Big Lie, would once again kowtow to the president's fatuous rationale that "vermin" had to pay a price to Make America Great Again.
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In other words, millennials want the freedom to express their pro-life values and will appreciate the examples of political leaders who do not kowtow to bullying and censorship by leftist peers and media.
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" He continued: "And it is a message, that unless you kowtow to an old order you will be lynched, destroyed, caricatured by a committee of the U.S. Senate rather than hung from a tree.
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In order to get the legislation even considered, the bill's proponents had to kowtow to left-wing activists in the state and green energy interests with a slew of sweetheart deals included in the legislation.
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Politicians will find it increasingly hard not to kowtow to an all-powerful cartel that would control more than 75 percent of the world's agrochemical market and more than 60 percent of the seed market.
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But the biggest impediment to Pruitt's plan is his dependence on a complacent scientific advisory process that will automatically kowtow to his desire to relax well-justified air pollution standards on behalf of his supporters.
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But the area south of the lake has been controlled by sugar farmers for decades, and environmentalists like Mr. Perry say state legislators in Tallahassee kowtow to agricultural lobbyists who fund their re-election campaigns.
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And now the resistance has flexed its muscle in Virginia and shown that the broad rainbow coalition that is America's future doesn't have to kowtow to those moaning about losing the privileges from America's past.
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By appearing to kowtow to the new boss-in-chief, Ford's chief executive, Mark Fields, may hope to keep this threat at bay—and to extract other favourable concessions, such as softer rules on emissions standards.
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Laura Kipnis, also a contributor, said that The Review had a history of publishing "tough, controversial pieces" that did not kowtow to public opinion, and she lamented that doing so had cost Mr. Buruma his job.
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Blame America first, abandon U.S. power and might and kowtow to a consortium of nations that despise us and seek our destruction — otherwise known as the United Nations — and the world will become a wonderful place.
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Truly, was it ever likely that the owner of The Washington Post would kowtow to a company with, as Bezos writes, a "long-earned reputation for weaponizing journalistic privileges... and ignoring the tenets and purpose of true journalism"?
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Another one of the charges on which the general was convicted was his 2007 move to impose "emergency rule" and fire Iftikhar Chaudhry, then the chief justice of Pakistan's Supreme Court, for refusing to kowtow to the General.
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He trying to kowtow to the Saviors so they don't kill anyone else; when Negan says he's going to kill Olivia the inventory girl for her poor inventory skills, Rick frantically hunts for the guns to save the woman.
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Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (CNN)With every claim from Turkey detailing more lurid details in the alleged murder of Jamal Khashoggi, Saudi Arabia's media bends further forward -- risking a face plant in its efforts to kowtow to a different reality.
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One of the sources said more QE could help soothe stock markets if these were spooked by an escalation in the trade war, although there would be a risk for the ECB in appearing to kowtow to equity investors.
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Restaurant Opportunities Centers United, a labor advocacy group that's spearheading the campaign to do away with the tipped minimum wage, argues that reliance on tips can be too unpredictable for workers and force them to kowtow to the whims of customers.
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But the Squad (in Twitter parlance) is clapping back, calling out the terms of the debate and refusing to kowtow to party leadership — just as Pelosi now seems to be joining them — in a sign that those terms might be changing.
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We're seeing this as congressional Republicans kowtow to a president who flouts the rule of law on a daily basis and who attacks the very institutions (the courts, a free press and now the special counsel) that can help sustain it.
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Mr. Trump's willingness to kowtow to Mr. Putin in the Fox interview was too much even for the Republican Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, who rebuked Mr. Trump, called Mr. Putin "a thug" and rejected any equivalence between America and Russia.
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Ms. Young said that Mr. Tin did not "kowtow" to the military junta that ruled the country for decades, and that the regime would not have wanted to send him abroad because the slide guitar was not a traditional Burmese instrument.
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Granted, Russia has a large military and an enormous stockpile of nuclear warheads matched only by the United States, but is that sufficient reason for the United States to kowtow to Russia's global ambitions and Putin's seeming desire to recreate the Soviet Union?
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But critics in Mexico have accused the government of effectively sacrificing its sovereignty by seeming to kowtow to a foreign government, especially by agreeing to speed up the deployment of a national security force that may be unprepared for its new responsibilities.
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A monstrous regime, still armed with nukes, gets a pass because Trump dreams of building condos on its deserted beaches and seeing a Trump Boulevard in Pyongyang, but no pass for CNN or The New York Times if they refuse to kowtow.
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Meanwhile, the logical upshot of Donald Trump's very public support for "MbS" after the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi by Saudi agents is that the crown prince will be more likely to kowtow to the U.S. president's desire for prices to fall.
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One reason that American Crime — which is also doing a staggeringly ambitious season of TV about miscarriages of justice in North Carolina this year — is so good is that it refuses to kowtow to the typical style of network TV. Its scoring is minimal.
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His dismissal was explained on the street as linked to his lack of corruption, in contrast to other senior figures, and his refusal to kowtow to the Popular Mobilization Forces, military entities within the Iraqi security forces, some of which have links to Iran.
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"We hear regularly about the Saudi arms deals or ministers going to Riyadh to kowtow before their royal family, but yet our government won't release a report that will clearly criticize Saudi Arabia," Timothy Farron, the leader of the Liberal Democrats, said in a statement.
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And neocons are the one faction that Trump never really bothered to kowtow to at any point, pushing ahead with wildly heterodox foreign policy ideas even while aligning his approach on taxes, regulation, abortion, guns, and other hot-button issues with mainstream conservative viewpoints.
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He sees the Athenry fight as emblematic of the Ireland's need for greater regulation and smarter planning on the part of politicians who, in his view, kowtow to major companies with little regard for how mega-developments will affect the environment and the national security grid.
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This would probably not have happened, he reckons, had the United States still been a council member, as the Latin Americans are still loth to be seen to kowtow to the administration in Washington, DC, which had long been pressing in vain for such a resolution.
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Or at least we can do so until one of them that is sufficiently powerful tells us that that is the not case; hence China forced President Trump to kowtow to it and to accept the one-China policy before it would conduct any further negotiations.
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Whether inventing or repurposing words, in refusing to kowtow to inherited concepts Ms Manne is emulating Friedrich Nietzsche, who said that philosophers "must no longer accept concepts as a gift, nor merely purify and polish them, but first make and create them, present them and make them convincing".
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" Conway continued by saying, "He let all sorts of transgressions by the Iranians go previously, and is perfectly happy to kowtow to evil foreign leaders (KJU, Putin), but suddenly, he chooses the option that the military thought too extreme to actually select, and then threatens to commit war crimes.
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By accusing Charles of trying to "turn" straight men, she's branded herself as a moral crusader — rather than a businesswoman who's upset that a much younger (queer) upstart undercut her by making his own business deals, and by doing so, refused to kowtow and just play the gay best friend.
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"By accusing Charles of trying to 'turn' straight men, she's branded herself as a moral crusader — rather than a businesswoman who's upset that a much younger (queer) upstart undercut her by making his own business deals, and by doing so, refused to kowtow and just play the gay best friend," Pier Dominguez wrote for Buzzfeed.
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The timing couldn't be worse: domestically, Facebook is under pressure for failing to adequately manage the influence of fake news on the U.S. election, yet here it is seemingly prepared to quash legitimate information on user timelines to kowtow to the Chinese government and further its interests in a country of 1.3 billion people.
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And from my standpoint, as a black American, as far as I'm concerned, it is a high-tech lynching for uppity blacks who in any way deign to think for themselves, to do for themselves, to have different ideas, and it is a message that unless you kowtow to the old order, this is what will happen to you.
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Even if the military succeeds, the trends are worrying: A country, people and society are in a sorry state when the guardians of its democratic values and the rule of law are the officers of the armed forces who are forced to stand up to the mob and the politicians who incite it and kowtow to it.
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Instead of doing something large and magnificent, like putting a man on the moon or leading the way forward to address climate change, we are abdicating our leadership, our scientific knowledge, and our creativity to instead kowtow to the fossil fuel industry and a way of life that is going to die anyway, and in dying, lead to deaths across many species, including perhaps our own.
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No horror in my life has been so debilitating," he told senators, adding that "from my standpoint as a black American, as far as I'm concerned, it is a high-tech lynching for uppity blacks who in any way deign to think for themselves, to do for themselves, to have different ideas, and it is a message that unless you kowtow to an old order, this is what will happen to you.
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