It doesn't matter if he's bent the knee, or even wants to rule.
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But since Jon had already "bent the knee" to Daenerys, Jon couldn't pledge neutrality.
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The SEC, considered by many the best college football conference, has essentially bent the knee.
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Those who bent the knee to Aegon of House Targaryen would keep their lands and titles.
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And when Jon reveals he bent the knee to Dany in front of everyone, did it even matter?
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She's not happy he bent the knee, and more than once suggests it's because he's in love with Dany.
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Jon, who left his ancestral home as a king, is returning having bent the knee to his dragon-riding girlfriend.
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But old prejudices could certainly resurface — especially since he's bent the knee to another Targaryen, without consulting the proud Northern lords.
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Unlike people who tend to dismiss the relevance of America's royal family, The Kardashians, actress Jessica Chastain has bent the knee.
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His first reaction is to reject his right to rule, saying he gave up being a king when he bent the knee.
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The residents of the North do not take kindly to outsiders and are upset that Jon has bent the knee to Dany.
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Google reacted by dropping sites who wouldn't let their content be shared for free and again, traffic fell and publishers bent the knee.
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The only reason why House Stark isn't the most powerful house is because they've sworn their fealty and bent the knee to House Targaryen.
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I get that Jon has a lot of Northern lords to keep happy, but it seems like he could have just bent the knee?
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William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, Terence Powderly, Susan B. Anthony, and Martin Luther King all bent the knee, as it were, in similar appeals.
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And he's probably aware that, like Jon Snow before her, she'd come under attack in the North if she bent the knee to King's Landing.
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Incest is weirdly okay in Westeros, but something tells us the Khaleesi won't like losing her power to a man who just bent the knee.
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Sansa asks Jon if he bent the knee to save the North or because he was in love, and he doesn't get a chance to respond.
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Our nation began with such a protest, as its first patriots bent the knee, to appeal to our sovereign Creator, God, against the British parliament's misgovernment.
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Arya even told Jon in the fourth episode that she respected that he bent the knee to Dany in order to get her support in the White Walker war.
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But late last year, Clarke finally bent the knee and dyed her own hair blonde — which means she and her Unburnt alter ego have more in common than ever before.
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Without Davos at their side, Tormund becomes an unlikely voice of reason in Jon's ear: even the free folk, led by Mance Rayder, bent the knee when it was important to their survival.
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Joey Ryan -- aka Joseph Ryan Meehan -- bent the knee and popped the question to Laura James back in February 2016 ... right in the middle of their Finest City Wrestling match in San Diego.
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And then with the game on the line, they bent the knee in epic fashion, squandering a cavalcade of opportunities and ultimately coughing up a 10-point fourth-quarter lead and losing in overtime.
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Also in season seven, Jon bent the knee to Dany and then began a romantic relationship with her; part of the reason she saved him and trusted him was that she had feelings for him.
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We know that Trump is a right-wing creation—an almost perfect product of Republican politics—because the GOP establishment did everything it could to stop him from winning, failed, and then bent the knee for him.
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That became painfully clear last Wednesday when, after his stunning setback on Super Tuesday, Mr. Sanders bent the knee and submitted to a barrage of not particularly friendly questions from the most powerful progressive on TV, the MSNBC host Rachel Maddow.
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But Jon Snow is so golly-gosh-gee-whiz honest he can't help but alert everyone that he's already bent the knee (the phrase never goes away, does it?) to Dany, causing Cersei to storm out and leaving everyone else to gripe at Jon.
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Even Emilia Clarke joined in the fun, sharing a photo of herself with Harington with the caption, "Now if he'd only bend the bloody knee there'll be no problems.." Finally, when Jon Snow actually bent the knee and got naked with Daenerys, there were the bedroom memes.
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Despite their blossoming love and the fact that he bent the knee to her, Kit Harington's Jon Snow got a stark dose of reality when Emilia Clarke's Daenerys Targaryen went all Mad Queen and torched King's Landing, even though the city had signaled its surrender to her forces.
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If you want a comfortable fantasy mainstay, but sexy: "Camelot" (Starz), about King Arthur's court Movies If you bent the knee to the Queen in the North: "Dark Phoenix," the latest X-Men movie, which hits theaters on June 7th and features our girl Sansa Stark (Sophie Turner) as Jean Grey.
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In the finale of Season 7, he messed up the parley in the dragonpit by telling Cersei he'd already bent the knee to Daenerys, and now he's told Daenerys that he has a stronger claim to the one thing she wants on the eve of the most important battle of their lives.
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Seán More O Dochartaigh (Abt. 1505 -26 May 1582 or 1566?) had castles at Aileach, Inch and Burt. The O’Doherty's were called the ‘Lords of Inishowen’. An agreement was reached in abt. 1540 that O’Dochartaigh would not cross the River Foyle if the British would stay out of Inishowen. In doing this under the process called Surrender and Regrant, Seán Mor O’Dochartaigh bent the knee before the English King Henry VIII in 1541 and became Sir John O’Doherty.
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Delandine, ms. 1533. Their extraordinary pretension drew a censure from the Sorbonne, 18 April 1555, condemning the refusal of the canon-counts to genuflect at the elevation of the Host; the dispute, in which the Dean and the canon-counts were opposed, had to be taken to the Cardinal of Lorraine and the Cardinal de Tournon for adjudication, where they were reminded that even the kings of France bent the knee at this occasion; however, the canons obtained an order in council on 23 August 1555 maintaining them in this privilege,The canons of Verdun practiced a similar privilege, of not bending the knee and remaining covered while joining in procession. which they renounced voluntarily in the reign of Louis XIV for fear of the king's displeasure.Jacques-Antoine Dulaure, Histoire de Paris, vol.
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