The collusion actually was the NFL kowtowing to the President.
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It is not a matter of kowtowing to Mr. Trump.
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We're not asking for kowtowing, we want real representation and equity.
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Specifically, they're calling out the network for kowtowing to the NFL.
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"The institution is kowtowing to the powers that be," he said.
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Over the course of a long afternoon, they walked along a road to the temple in a slow, dignified procession: taking three steps and kowtowing, three steps and kowtowing, on and on for about two hours. Mrs.
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Like Macartney, Mrs May would prefer to get all this without kowtowing.
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"What I'm not in favor of is kowtowing to China," he added.
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That, not Frum's kowtowing, should be the real response to the Brexit vote.
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As kowtowing has become spectacle, flatterers are no longer embarrassed by their abasement.
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Trump appears determined to end what he sees as America's kowtowing to China.
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US politicians accused the NBA of kowtowing to Beijing to protect its financial interests.
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"And he is doing it in a way that is not kowtowing to Berlin."
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He accused the NFL of "kowtowing" to Trump to keep off him a team.
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If Big Tech keeps kowtowing to this, it might very well soon regret it.
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Israeli voters recoiled at the shameless pandering, the ignoble kowtowing, the self-serving recklessness.
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"It is not true to say we are kowtowing or bowing to Apple," he said.
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" By "strange" Trump means "Fox isn't kowtowing to me and my policies at all times.
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In recent years, movies featuring prosecutors kowtowing to business tycoons have become box-office hits.
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After Carter's inexplicable kowtowing to a murderous Nigerian peanut overlord, a special counsel was appointed.
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He has accused the Pakistani military of kowtowing to the United States in the past.
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"[He's] being straightforward and honest, and not kowtowing to liberal sensibilities," Nunberg said to Vox.
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Apple seems to be able to maintain good relations with carriers without kowtowing to them.
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The obvious inference is that Comey was kowtowing to his superiors in the Obama White House.
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Or, if it doesn't raise rates, it will face accusations that it is kowtowing to Trump.
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I don't think that he's necessarily kowtowing to the white man like maybe haters might think.
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For PiS, they have been plagued by ex-communist sleaze, arrogant elites and kowtowing to Berlin.
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It's unfortunate that Gilead's leaders are apparently too busy kowtowing to foreign countries to realize this.
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Many despise President Obama for kowtowing to Cuba, and rightly fear Clinton will continue that policy.
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But today Trump is not just bowing to a king; he's kowtowing to a mad prince.
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"If Big Tech keeps kowtowing to this, it might very well soon regret it," he said.
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The question many Democrats are asking now is whether Facebook is kowtowing to Republicans too much.
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Lo Kin-hei, a local district councilor, called Blizzard "another company kowtowing to Beijing" in a tweet.
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Sahra Wagenknecht, of the far-left Linke party, accused Merkel of kowtowing to the "Turkish despot" Erdogan.
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Kowtowing to far-left "leave in the ground" oil and gas prohibitionists is self-defeating as well.
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Now that Trump is "actually Hitler," any compromise by Democrats will be viewed as kowtowing to fascism.
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The incident sparked a spat at Breitbart, with journalists accusing management of kowtowing to the Trump campaign.
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But he rejected calls to abandon China, even as politicians accused the N.B.A. of kowtowing to Beijing.
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But this process involves a certain degree of humbleness, of kowtowing, of stooping as low as possible.
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"They're almost kowtowing to (Trump)," said Pantelides, the publicist who has worked on events hosted at the club.
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The U.K.'s Daily Mail accused Procter & Gamble of "kowtowing" to the "transgender lobby" in making the change.
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As in, I told you what befriending the Americans, and kowtowing to the "Washington consensus," would bring Mexico.
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But American kowtowing to the newly bulging muscles of Beijing will most likely go down badly in Washington.
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The news channel Chosun showed video of presidential aides kowtowing to her after she apparently gave them orders.
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Throughout the debate over the bill, the company accused City Council members of kowtowing to the hotel industry.
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"President Trump's kowtowing to Vladimir Putin is endangering our national security and emboldening a dangerous tyrant," Pelosi said.
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The removal has sparked outrage from critics who have accused the company of kowtowing to the Chinese government.
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President Benigno S. Aquino III "is kowtowing to Japan so he will not bring up the issue," she said.
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That you've got this concept of independence, the Fed is not kowtowing to the pressure that Trump is providing.
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That shared experience, she said, made it "particularly painful to see him kowtowing to the president" during the shutdown.
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Democrats' tactics on Tuesday left Republicans saying the party was kowtowing to the progressive wing of their party. Sen.
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It shows what appears to be a Buddhist leader, judging by the decor and the kowtowing of his followers.
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Somehow, there was a sense from some people that that was the equivalent of kowtowing to the Chinese government.
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Yet the tech giant&aposs removal of the app was widely interpreted as Apple kowtowing to the Chinese state.
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" May 20 (Pennsylvania rally) By "strange" Trump means "Fox isn't kowtowing to me and my policies at all times.
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For sure many voters are sick of politics as usual, and welcome a candidate freed from kowtowing to the establishment.
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"The FAA has to make a decision about whether they want to keep kowtowing to the airline industry," he said.
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The most plausible explanation is that Mr Emefiele has been kowtowing to President Muhammadu Buhari, who fears a weak currency.
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Chris Patten, Hong Kong's last governor, told the Guardian newspaper British "kowtowing" to China would become increasingly craven after Brexit.
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In one scene, Franz talks to a church artist who is guilt-ridden for his (small) kowtowing to the Nazis.
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The NBA is kowtowing to Beijing to protect their bottom line and disavowing those with the temerity to #standwithHongKong. Shameful!
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Access to abortion subverts supremacy by empowering the individual's hopes, needs, and aspirations, rather than kowtowing to systems of oppression.
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" Warren also accused other candidates of kowtowing to rich donors, saying they are "selling access to their time for money.
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The fear now -- the prosecutor may actually go harder on Rocky, to show he is not kowtowing to U.S. government officials.
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In the end, he did the same thing – kowtowing to what the NRA wanted – and no action on background checks occurred.
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It's not like I think we're kowtowing to them, we're just acknowledging them in a way the bigger music industry doesn't.
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Tapper noted lawmakers "rightly condemning the NBA for kowtowing to China" amid the comparative silence around foreign intervention in domestic politics.
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Like Sanders, Warren has sworn off high-dollar fundraisers, relying on grassroots donations and accusing rivals of kowtowing to the wealthy.
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Third, he failed to protect Marie Yovanovitch, the US ambassador to Ukraine, when Trump wanted her recalled for not kowtowing to him.
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Lots of woke progressive executive orders while kowtowing to Wall Street and the neoliberal class in every other area of his presidency.
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Such inquiries Ryan can only respond to with thoughts of kowtowing to his apathetic masters and prayers the questions will stop coming.
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Turning to that issue, Douthat sketched three possible ways to understand Trump's underlying motivation for kowtowing to the Russians on international television.
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It is kowtowing to the most extreme elements of the base who are still in the throes of an Obama-hate hangover.
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Rows blaze over athletes kowtowing to China, naval docking rights and alleged censorship on TikTok, a Chinese app used by teenagers worldwide.
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No candidate will want to be perceived as kowtowing to a U.S. president and administration that have so alienated Mexican public opinion.
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He has given us fruitless negotiations with North Korea, craven kowtowing to Vladimir Putin and high levels of public division and anxiety.
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During last year's election campaign, the Social Democrats (SPD) criticized the target as kowtowing to Trump and promoting spending for spending's sake.
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" Geragos believes Goodell's statement will help Kap's collusion case against the NFL -- saying, "The collusion actually was the NFL kowtowing to [President Trump].
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More: Greg Ip of the WSJ urges the Fed to brush off accusations of political kowtowing if it thinks rates must be cut.
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But Trump, who spent much of the GOP primary campaign attacking his rivals for kowtowing to big contributors, hasn't had such a figure.
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Instead of kowtowing to the special interests, President Trump should flat-out ignore them and keep his campaign promise to drain the swamp.
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He spoke of his enjoyment of literature, his early interest in politics and his dislike of "kowtowing to a lot of political correct nonsense".
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Shortly after the Parkland shooting, President Trump expressed support for gun restrictions opposed by the N.R.A., scolding fellow Republicans for kowtowing to the group.
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"They will be forced to make the choice between privately kowtowing to all demands or resisting extra-judicial demands on their users," she said.
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If Facebook made a change to its News Feed now, right-wing supporters might claim that the social network is kowtowing to the left.
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The Democrats defend the Obama administration and all of a sudden they don&apost like the Russians so they&aposve been kowtowing too since 1917.
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ESPN's critics have accused the company of kowtowing to Beijing by not discussing the politics at the heart of the country's showdown with the NBA.
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But what comes through nearly every song is a sense of camaraderie and joyful relief: no more kowtowing to radio and countless ways to jam.
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Longer exclusivity windows are likely more indicative that Netflix is granting top talent greater bargaining sway than it is kowtowing to theaters or industry standards.
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The SVP, the largest party in parliament, has accused other parties of kowtowing to Brussels and shirking their duty to stand up for Swiss sovereignty.
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It is often accused of kowtowing to its donors — from powerful players like the United States and China to private funders like the Gates Foundation.
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It also underscores the extent to which Trumpism — the kowtowing to celebrity and ratings, the repudiation of experience and expertise — has infected our civic life.
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Permitting glorious tales from eight presidencies ago to absolve subsequent media kowtowing would be as foolish as forgetting the lessons of the original Pentagon Papers.
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Nike and the N.B.A. are no more guilty of 'kowtowing' to Beijing than other multinationals, however, including those in the hospitality, technology and commercial aviation industries.
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But Trump didn't get to the White House by listening to conventional wisdom or kowtowing to party leaders, so he opted to chart his own course.
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In every super-yacht at the center, kowtowing sales people were glad-handing the super-rich, showing that genuflection is now a key British export industry.
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Don't be fooled by the last-second tut-tutting of G.O.P. senators about Trump's kowtowing to Vladimir Putin in Helsinki and spurning of our intelligence agencies.
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The move, reported by BBC News, is the latest example of Apple kowtowing to a government's demands to keep its devices and services in good standing.
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But the fact that there is even an appearance of Ukraine kowtowing to Trump shows just how politically treacherous this entire situation has become for the president.
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The first had come during a joint press conference with Russian president Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, a 45-minute exercise in kowtowing to a hostile foreign leader.
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If kneeling during the national anthem to protest racial injustice is considered unacceptable, where does kowtowing to a foreign dictator who attacked the American democratic system fall?
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" "We urgently need a housing system that puts the safety and needs of ordinary people front and center rather than kowtowing to investors and other private interests.
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Kowtowing to the empire would mean the loss of Mandalay, the holiest city in Burmese Buddhism, and with it hundreds of years of court and monastic learning.
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Kowtowing to a minority of angry western-states officials who demand local control over public lands and national monuments insults the clear will of the America people.
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While kowtowing to Trump could raise questions about Saudi leadership, failing to send a clear signal to the mercurial U.S. president could put OPEC in Trump's crosshairs.
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But more earnest attempts at kowtowing could be forthcoming, perhaps even a rapid marginalization of Mutko, which the I.O.C. would likely perceive as too little too late.
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But if American basketball fans believe the NBA is kowtowing to Chinese authorities in this dispute, that could damage the league's reputation with fans and some American sponsors.
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On top of that, May has been criticized repeatedly throughout the campaign for everything from her repeated media no-shows to her perceived kowtowing to President Donald Trump.
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White House Memo WASHINGTON — Looking around the table at the White House one day this week, President Trump chided fellow Republicans for kowtowing to the National Rifle Association.
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Hume leads briskly to Darwin, then Nietzsche, then eugenics and fascism and existentialism and postmodernism and intersectionality, and here we are, kowtowing to the "knowing falsehood" of transgenderism.
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And, Republicans in Washington have not only been absolute cowards about standing up to Trump and holding him accountable, some have been completely unseemly in their obsequious kowtowing.
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However, it would allow Kim and Trump to meet without traveling far from either of their respective security forces or to be seen kowtowing in an "enemy" capital.
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President Donald Trump scrambled the gun control debate by scolding members of his own party for kowtowing to the National Rifle Association and not doing something "comprehensive" about guns.
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The episode's title was lightly touched on in an early scene that introduced Peter Jacobson as Gaad's kowtowing replacement, who lectured Agent Aderholt on the margins in his reports.
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Apple has been widely criticized for apparently kowtowing to Chinese censorship, removing an app that helps Hong Kong protesters track police, and news app Quartz from various App Stores.
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Then he offered her the lofty job of managing his presidential campaign — and all the television airtime that came with it — and she turned herself into a kowtowing cartoon.
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The act of kowtowing to power in order to receive small pleasures may seem minor; but without it, the brutal assault of the censorship system would not be possible.
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Peña Nieto is scrambling to complete the renegotiation of NAFTA before election season starts in full in January, while trying to avoid an image of kowtowing to Trump's rhetoric.
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I believe working with Trump in a civil, proactive manner should be the goal of every tech company, but not kowtowing to him because he bullied them into some action.
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Apple CEO Tim Cook has taken up an advisory role at a top Chinese university, at a time his company is under intense scrutiny for apparently kowtowing to Chinese censors.
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Since the deal, there's been a slew of bad-sounding stories being spun wildly to construct a narrative of a broken nuclear deal and an Obama administration kowtowing to Iran.
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Apple has, of course, taken criticism for kowtowing to Beijing by removing more than 50 VPN apps, which can be used to circumvent China's internet censorship system, from the App Store.
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The bakery's efforts to make peace failed to placate Beijing and have instead angered their customers in Taiwan, where some angry citizens have accused it of "kowtowing" to the Chinese government.
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"It seems that [Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador] is kowtowing to American demands that migrants be controlled from applying for asylum and stopped from coming to the border," Rivano Barros said.
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While this kind of pay to play dysfunction is widespread in telecom, the assault on net neutrality was among the most obvious examples of government kowtowing to natural monopolies, say consumer groups.
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She didn't consider herself part of the clan, and saw no reason to observe the rituals of filial piety, such as visiting the ancestral home on holidays and kowtowing to my grandmother.
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Toughing out the winter is a dedication to my heritage, both in terms of not going "soft" by kowtowing to nature's volatility, and staying physically close to my family in New England.
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Instead of kowtowing to the Chinese government's demands in order to gain access to the market, American tech giants could do something heroic: Liberate hundreds of millions of people from information darkness.
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As an elected public servant I am livid that Milwaukee's pathetic, kowtowing city officials and aldermen take this opportunity to abandon their citizens and preen before the Black Lives Matter-enabling media. ADVERTISEMENTgoogletag.cmd.
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" The largest pro-democracy parties in Hong Kong have called a protest on Wednesday at a busy Lancôme retail location to condemn the brand for what they said amounted to "kowtowing to money.
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There was concern among Trump aides that his kowtowing to Putin made him look unpatriotic and that a senior member of the intelligence community, possibly Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats, might resign.
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Some members of the House Republican Conference are angry that Trump has given no clarity on what he would sign -- and are angry at their leadership for kowtowing to the President's demands. Rep.
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U.S. basketball is hugely popular in China and lucrative for the U.S. sports world, but Beijing's heavy-handed reaction may impact trade relations as well as basketball's suddenly controversial "kowtowing" to China (CNBC).
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But it's just as likely that it was kowtowing to Fox—and, for that matter, to President Trump who also tweeted about the film, presumably in response to the network's coverage of it.
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A fearful follower loads their memorial speech before the families, friends, and colleagues of the recently deceased with political rhetoric, kowtowing to the radical bullies fomenting hate across our nation's cities these past weeks.
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Whether it was Adam Czerniakow in Warsaw, Chaim Rumkowski kowtowing in Lodz or Jacob Gens in Vilna and Jewish leaders in Minsk who tried to assist Jewish partisan groups, it ultimately made no difference.
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" "SFPD Chief William Scott showed everyone in the SFPD, and all San Franciscans, what his character consists of and it was a pathetic, deceitful and shameful display of self-preservation, finger pointing, and political kowtowing.
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Although Mexico's new president is not a Trump fan and cannot be seen kowtowing to America's combative commander in chief, both sides could benefit from quickly resolving the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) negotiations.
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Blizzard is partly owned by Chinese gaming giant Tencent, which holds a 5% stake, and was accused of kowtowing to Chinese sensitivity to all mentions of the pro-democracy protests currently raging in Hong Kong.
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"The American government does not know what was discussed between Trump and Vladimir Putin in that frankly pathetic, embarrassing encounter where Trump was kowtowing on the world stage to Vladimir Putin in Helsinki," Virginia Sen.
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Negotiations with North Korea over its nuclear program are stalling, and last week, President Donald Trump had one of this worst weeks ever after seemingly kowtowing to Russian leader Vladimir Putin on the world stage.
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Many NBA fans who might have been excited or just indifferent about their beloved league's increasing business connections with China are now asking whether promoting the game is worth the concessions and kowtowing to Beijing.
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The Republican leadership seems to have accepted this claim at face value and can't seem to let go of the notion that there are grave political consequences for not kowtowing to the illegal alien lobby.
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Robinson pounced on the backlash, and launched a petition calling on the chief of the defense staff to "call off his dogs," framing the issue as a case of elites kowtowing to PC culture and Muslims.
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Read more: Hong Kong lawmaker who relied on the banned HKMap Live app warns Apple from becoming an 'accomplice for Chinese censorship'Cook's decision came despite considerable outcry from US lawmakers about Apple kowtowing to Chinese censorship.
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" "Anybody who would replace him from the middle of the Republican Party would probably vote the same way," Pyle said Wednesday, "and would probably be rather less embarrassing in the way he's kowtowing to the president.
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Trump had a chance to stand up for "law and order" and aggrieved white people everywhere, to say that the problem isn't the police but the criminals, and that Clinton was kowtowing to politically correct dogma.
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Max Hastings, a historian of the British-American relationship, said while British leaders had been kowtowing in vain to American presidents for generations, the current batch of Tory leadership hopefuls was doing so with unusual verve.
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Trump is unlikely to intervene; in this case, as well, Democrats will accuse him of kowtowing to China's Xi Jinping and fostering the perception that China could do the same to Taiwan with no American response.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - A Christian cleric on Thursday criticized Chancellor Angela Merkel for kowtowing to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and downplaying human rights concerns as she headed to north Africa to expand trade and investment ties.
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Employees of Facebook, possibly Silicon Valley's most controversial company, held their peace even after a New York Times investigation that showed a pattern of company leaders conniving, dissembling, and kowtowing to conservatives as the platform's problems mounted.
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Investing resources in creating the things Trump said he would create, rather than in kowtowing to the transnational financial elites he said he was fighting, would improve middle-class people's lives in a direct and tangible way.
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" Conservative commentator Erick Erickson tweeted: "We're all properly denouncing the NBA kowtowing to China, meanwhile the son of the sitting President is leading a crowd in a chant of 'lock him up' about his father's political rival's son.
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A Black Lives Matter leader, Rashad Turner of St. Paul, is running for the Minnesota House on the Green Party ticket and said he would press for criminal justice and education reforms without kowtowing to any particular party.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's Social Democrats on Sunday rejected NATO's target of spending 2 percent of national output on defense and accused German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her conservatives of kowtowing to the demands of U.S. President Donald Trump.
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I am a Navy veteran whose brother died flying in World War II. So I am secure in my own patriotism, unwilling to be instructed about it by a draft-dodging president or his kowtowing sports flag-wavers.
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The National Basketball Association on Sunday broke its silence on a brewing controversy between China and the Houston Rockets — and was promptly denounced by several Capitol Hill lawmakers and 2020 presidential hopefuls for "kowtowing" to the foreign power.
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According to the Times, the administration was kowtowing to the interests of baby formula makers, and going against decades of public health research demonstrating that babies who are breastfed have better health and development outcomes than babies fed formula.
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They came into the music business as total greenhorns, and often found themselves kowtowing to label executives and marketing folk who they assumed knew best, whether or not they really agreed with every decision being made in their name.
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The Amazon deal is not directly related to the city's landmark commission proposal for the Strand -- but the situation certainly throws the irony of cities' kowtowing to Big Tech while they allow other businesses to suffer into sharp relief.
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Such scenes of an American president kowtowing in China to a Chinese president sent chills down the spines of Asia experts and United States allies who have relied on America to balance and sometimes counter an increasingly assertive China.
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Coming in the midst of the designation fight, the Amazon giveaway suggested to Ms. Wyden a city traitorously kowtowing to a predatory monopolist posing an existential threat to neighborhood retailers, while burdening local underdogs and mainstays like the Strand.
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BERLIN, Aug 6 (Reuters) - Germany's Social Democrats on Sunday rejected NATO's target of spending 2 percent of economic output on the military, and blasted German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her conservatives for kowtowing to the demands of U.S. President Donald Trump.
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Being seen as kowtowing to the demands of a foreign power — even one it relies on heavily for survival — is anathema to North Korea's leaders, no matter how much refusing to do so might ultimately harm them in the long run.
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On Liberation, Aguilera finally embraces that she is at her most powerful when she is at her most raw; in fact, she feels most in control when she's truly baring her soul, rather than kowtowing to generic, corporate musical trends.
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Developers are also on tenterhooks after a major shopping centre was criticised by demonstrators for allowing police to enter a mall and arrest protesters, while the Global Times criticised another mall for "kowtowing to radical protesters" by not letting police enter.
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Developers are also on tenterhooks after a major shopping center was criticized by demonstrators for allowing police to enter a mall and arrest protesters, while the Global Times criticized another mall for "kowtowing to radical protesters" by not letting police enter.
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If the Federal Reserve fulfills expectations and cuts interest rates Wednesday, it will have to convince the public it is doing so to preserve economic growth and not kowtowing to a very vocal president who is demanding looser monetary policy.
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So, all of these things almost feel in some ways like the president is really bending over backwards now to prove that he will not do anything that would look as if he is kowtowing to Russia in any way.
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She is also part of a larger field of activists, artists and intellectuals trying to articulate a feminist third way — one that doesn't have to choose between religion and universal rights, between critiquing the West and kowtowing to local conservatives.
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So when a teenage Taiwan popstar was forced to apologize for waving the Taiwan flag on South Korean TV, many people in Taiwan were angered by what they saw as one of their own kowtowing to the growing influence of China.
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But when our Iran debate focuses on misleading nuclear inspection minutiae or whether the Obama administration is "kowtowing" to Iran with things like the alleged hostage payment, we aren't having a serious conversation about how to address Iran's actually bad policies.
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Tom Marino, the man he first wanted for the Office of National Drug Control Policy, had to drop out after a "60 Minutes" and Washington Post expose showed him kowtowing to opioid industry interests in his prior job as a congressman.
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In reality, Qatar has been ostracized by its "brotherly" neighbors, as the language of regional diplomacy has it, for not kowtowing to the collective vision for the Middle East now largely shared by the United States, Saudi Arabia and Israel.
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Not admitting his part in the creation of those problems may be a way for Mr. Mahathir to reassure Malay communalists — he isn't kowtowing to the Chinese; the bumiputera preferences will remain — but it is already alienating some minorities and reformists.
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Based on the NFL's embarrassing kowtowing to Trump on the national anthem issue, most of the league's owners have no idea how to deal with the problem of the angry president, but Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie is uniquely suited to weathering this storm.
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But there's no point in beating around the bush here: Italian officials have gone to an absurd length in kowtowing to President Hassan Rouhani of Iran on his first visit since the lifting of economic sanctions as a result of the nuclear deal.
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The power of "Big Pharma," politicians kowtowing to the wishes of special interests, a revolving door where the watchmen of the Drug Enforcement Administration end up working for the very companies they have investigated — there's a lot to be shocked and angry about.
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But the things some people had hoped he would do—such as rejecting the old elites' kowtowing to the Davos crowd, fighting the political class's deepening hypocrisy, telling hard but refreshing truths, enacting more economically redistributive policies—hadn't been silly or wrong.
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These awards signal a sea change (hopefully) in the attitude of Academy voters about rap and hip-hop and the best part was that Donald Glover pulled it off without kowtowing to them — he didn't even come to the ceremony this year.
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The Trump administration provides its opponents, and even its friends, with daily extravaganzas of legitimate outrage, moral and political: breaking up migrant families; escalating needless trade wars; alienating historic allies while kowtowing to pathological dictators — and that's just the last few weeks.
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His comments came after Hu Xijin, the editor in chief of the Global Times, attacked one of Mr. Woo's shopping malls for "kowtowing" to the protesters by allowing them to remove the Chinese flag from a flagpole and throw it into the sea.
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His comments came after Hu Xijin, the editor in chief of the Global Times, attacked one of Mr. Woo's shopping malls for "kowtowing" to the protesters by allowing them to remove the Chinese flag from a flagpole and throw it into the sea.
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Even after the Warmbier family issued a heartbreaking statement in response to the President's kowtowing to Kim, the President did not retract his support for Kim but instead said his remarks were misinterpreted, which did not address the underlying issue regarding Kim's involvement.
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He says: I'm on your side, here's what's going on, there are all these stupid elites in the politics sphere kowtowing to business elites because they need their money, but I have my own money, so I'm going to tell it like it is.
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Pending approval from Congress on spending matters, the next president could: "I think Israel could pay a price for Netanyahu's kowtowing to Trump's desires," said Bob Dietz, who held senior roles in both the CIA and National Security Agency under former President George W. Bush.
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Calling his latest feature "a critique of any extremist kind of movement — both on the left and right," the director feigns a take-no-prisoners mindset while kowtowing to cis-gender male visions of non-stop sapphic snogging (his cinematographer, tellingly, is also male).
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"President Trump seems determined to keep handing political and military victories to Russia and Syria, kowtowing to Turkey and opening the door for further Iranian expansion in the region," said Senator Robert Menendez of New Jersey, the top Democrat on the Foreign Relations Committee.
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As Terry Nguyen wrote for Vox, many US brands struggle to have it both ways; they risk censorship from China if they are seen as critical of the country, but they could alienate their US customers by kowtowing to an authoritarian government suppressing pro-democracy protests.
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With both Marvin Kaplan and William Emanuel now confirmed to join the five-member board, and Peter Robb nominated to serve as its general counsel, there is reason to hope that the NLRB will pursue fairness and sanity instead of kowtowing to the president's favorite special interest.
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What else he has done, and what can be proved, and what Republicans are willing to do about it remain to be seen; meanwhile, Trump's entire Presidency, from his Cabinet appointments to his foreign policy, lies in a muddle of money-grubbing, kowtowing, and influence-peddling.
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Amnesty International researcher Patrik Poon told CNN that the decision by Apple was part of a wider trend among big tech companies to do whatever the Chinese government asks: "It's extremely worrying that Apple is kowtowing to China's censorship by deleting New York Times apps," Poon said.
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And Milo Yiannopoulos, a Breitbart editor who has been one of the movement's most vocal supporters, says the alt-right was forced to break with the GOP because of the party's obsession with tax cuts, free trade, deregulation, and its kowtowing to powerful conservative business leaders and donors.
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" The artist Max Maslansky, responding to this reporter on Facebook, criticized the hire as the museum again "kowtowing to celebrity-culture-oriented arts administrators, who still see L.A. as a provincial outpost ripe for international transformation from the outside, as if its native arts culture needs an upgrade.
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" Anat Hoffman, chairperson for Women of the Wall, said, "It's a terrible day for women in Israel when the Prime Minister sacrifices their rights while kowtowing to a handful of religious extremists, who want to enforce their religious customs while intentionally violating the rights of the majority of the Jewish world.
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Most of the Trump administration's actions have harmed America's reputation and interests in the region, like his kowtowing to Israel and Saudi Arabia, his misguided decision to withdraw the US from the nuclear agreement with Iran, the re-imposition of US sanctions and unrealistic and dangerous aspirations to change the regime.
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Even a White House visit, if it happens, risks being seen not so much as a triumph for Mr. Zelensky as more kowtowing to Mr. Trump, who could cite it as evidence he never linked such a visit, or American military assistance for Ukraine, to investigations that would benefit him politically.
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For instance, navigating Hollywood offices and hotel rooms in a system stacked toward sexual exploitation, where women's looks and sexual allure have historically been the entrance ticket for career advancement — and where extracting sexual kowtowing from women has been, for certain serial abusers, a measure of their power in the industry.
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Trump has also gone after Carrier, Boeing and McDonnell Douglas.) But bullying individual corporate executives into kowtowing to your whims because you are president of the United States is not what made America great and won't be what makes it great again (if in fact that is even in dispute).
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He said he is not interested in kowtowing to the traditional Democratic machine or methods; he has been canvassing for votes at yoga studios and printing campaign materials on coffee sleeves and drink coasters across this mostly affluent district that covers much of the east side of Manhattan and parts of Brooklyn and Queens.
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But Silicon Valley tech companies have by and large been been kowtowing to the latest right-wing grift, and conservative talkers and other right wing personalities have found great PR success in breaking tech platform rules and claiming that the apolitical punishment doled out is specifically targeted to curtail voices and the rights of those on the right.
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TMZ reported that Scott and Kylie Jenner were set to sit directly behind Minaj for the show, but given that this is run by a company with a long history of kowtowing to the wills of the remaining A-Listers who have any affection for their flagship enterprise, that of course did not come to pass.
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She has faced criticism for her stiff communication style hewing closely to prepared talking points, for her refusal to engage Corbyn in public debate, and for the perception she was kowtowing to U.S. President Donald Trump on issues like his decision to leave the Paris Agreement, or his attacks on London Mayor Sadiq Khan in the immediate aftermath of a terror attack.
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READ: Venezuela just took a huge step toward controlling all access to the Internet In his speech, Maduro also attacked the European Union, claiming the trading bloc was kowtowing to the U.S. by slapping its own sanctions on Caracas — despite the fact that Washington and Brussels are currently embroiled in a trade war that threatens to unsettle the entire North Atlantic alliance.
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is driven by a vision of "connecting the world" and, though he has said a compromise is necessary in the case of countries like China where free speech is restricted, it is hard to see how that vision fits with kowtowing to a law that has gotten Thai people jailed for Facebook comments, or even merely receiving a message on the social network.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE struck that balance masterfully during his meeting with Queen Elizabeth on his state visit to the United Kingdom, displaying his sincere respect for the royal family without kowtowing to any of the regal pretensions.
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Former NBA basketball player Charles Barkley said Thursday that Vice President Mike PenceMichael (Mike) Richard PenceNational security adviser, Commerce Secretary to represent Trump at Asian summit Pence: 'I don't take it as a foregone conclusion that the House will vote to impeach' Pence: Trump's decision to remove troops from Syria 'had no impact' on al-Baghdadi mission MORE "needs to shut the hell up" after Pence slammed the NBA for kowtowing to China and failing to stand up for free speech.
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All along, though, the Chinese complained that the language sought by the U.S. was one-sided and tantamount to a confession of guilt by China that would make it look as if President Xi Jinping was kowtowing to the U.S. The Chinese also complained that Trump was making excessive demands in terms of the amount of U.S. goods and services he wanted China to buy to reduce the trade imbalance, and that the U.S. would still not guarantee to end tariffs.
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We refused to "stick to sports," because we know that sports is everything, and everything is sports: It's the N.B.A. kowtowing to its Chinese business interests; it's pro sports leagues attempting to become shadow justice systems for publicity reasons; it's the opioid epidemic roiling N.F.L. locker rooms at least as hard as anywhere in Appalachia, even as the league refuses to relax its marijuana policy; it's racist fan chants chasing black players off the pitch in Italian soccer matches; it's Washington Nationals catcher Kurt Suzuki wearing a "Make America Great Again" cap at the White House.
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We refused to "stick to sports," because we know that sports is everything, and everything is sports: It's the N.B.A. kowtowing to its Chinese business interests; it's pro sports leagues attempting to become shadow justice systems for publicity reasons; it's the opioid epidemic roiling N.F.L. locker rooms at least as hard as anywhere in Appalachia, even as the league refuses to relax its marijuana policy; it's racist fan chants chasing black players off the pitch in Italian soccer matches; it's Washington Nationals catcher Kurt Suzuki wearing a "Make America Great Again" cap at the White House.
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Since then we've had Trump's talk of "some form of punishment" for women having an abortion; and "grab 'em by the pussy" as his approach to women; and African nations as "shithole countries"; and his moral equivocation over the Charlottesville neo-Nazis who were not so bad really; and his Administration's sadistic treatment of immigrant children; and the European Union as "foe"; and thousands of false or misleading statements since taking office; and now the disgusting spectacle of the American president kowtowing in Helsinki to Vladimir Putin, whose denial of Russian interference in the 2016 election he credits over the findings of United States intelligence agencies!
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