It has kowtowed to conservative supporters, exacerbating tensions within Israeli society.
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For the past two years, Speaker Paul Ryan kowtowed to Trump's demands on immigration.
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I was very particular about how they kowtowed to Trump on the immigration stuff initially.
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The Department of Justice has kowtowed to the porn industry, and our kids are paying the price.
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They have kowtowed to their neighborhood bully once too often and may as well go home themselves.
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Everyone&aposs jumping on the president on this particular aspect and whether he kowtowed to the Russians or not.
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Many Republicans who used to swear by democratic principles have kowtowed to Trump while defending his violations of them.
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Facebook may have kowtowed to a Congressional investigation, but the response was politically necessary in light of the conservative uproar.
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If I hadn't kowtowed to the demands of its creation, who knows the disturbance in the Force that may have ensued.
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Instead of defending US interests at his press conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin on July 22017, Trump kowtowed to the dictator.
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You talk about a guy who kowtowed to Congress, couldn&apost handle the pressure, he looked for any political port in a storm.
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Appearing on CNN yesterday, Paul dismissed the conventional wisdom that Trump had kowtowed to Putin, sold out U.S. interests, and dismissed U.S. intelligence.
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Many brands have kowtowed to the Chinese government over these issues, which isn't surprising given the clout of Chinese consumers in global retail.
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But he never kowtowed to the band, even walking out on them during the White Album and damning it with faint praise forever after.
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President Trump kowtowed to Vladimir Putin, praising the Russian leader as a potential partner and casting doubt on accusations of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
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Apple was widely criticized for blocking a mapping app that allowed Hong Kong protesters to track the police, with critics suggesting the firm had kowtowed to Beijing.
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At a town hall meeting Wednesday in Exeter, N.H., Mr. Cruz suggested Mr. Trump had kowtowed to the Iowa political establishment by favoring subsidies for the ethanol industry.
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As the party has increasingly kowtowed to donors and to a small but influential voter base, the will of the rest of the people has become an inconvenience.
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Donald Trump got elected, in part, because he kowtowed to this cult of guns, pretending to be a lover of weapons, even a member, although this was a veneer.
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For too long, our nation has kowtowed to big business and corporate interests such as "The Pope" and "Sign Language," all the while refusing to provide the little guy, i.e.
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If you voted for Trump, these are welcome changes to an American foreign policy that too often kowtowed to the world community rather than asserting American exceptionalism first, last and always.
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Many also seem to feel he's kowtowed to Trump and come off as subservient to the president, and given momentum to BDS by making it appear a legitimate threat to Israel.
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He is restricted from the left by his old-style, chip-on-the-shoulder nationalism, his radical base and the perception in Mexico that the outgoing president kowtowed to Washington all too often.
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The United States betrayed the Kurds after the first gulf war when we kowtowed to Saddam Hussein and permitted him to crush a Kurdish uprising, leading to the slaughter of thousands of civilians.
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He hates Donald Trump, a man who straight-up 1650s-style insulted his honor, and then kowtowed to Donnie as soon as he realized there was no chance of him winning shit anytime soon.
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Most have kowtowed to the intolerance of the left, with a study revealing that only 10 out of the nation's top 85033 universities extended a commencement invitation to a conservative-leaning speaker last year.
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The corporation kowtowed to its distraught cabal of sauceless Rick and Morty fans the day after its ill-fated promotion by promising to bring the sauce back in the winter in much more robust quantities.
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Likewise, what if a CEO routinely made false and misleading statements about himself, the company, and results, and publicly attacked business partners, company "divisions" (w/ scare quotes!), employees, and analysts, and kowtowed to a dangerous competitor?
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Trump kowtowed to Putin at the Helsinki summit in July, saying that he didn't "see any reason why" Russia would be responsible for interfering in the US election, going against the consensus of his own intelligence community.
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As for Mr. Peña Nieto, a lame duck, defending the interests of Mexicans in the United States could help him overcome the national outrage he caused when he invited the Republican candidate to visit and kowtowed to him.
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The decision to remove the app puts Apple on a growing list of U.S. companies, including the NBA, Blizzard and Tiffany, that have kowtowed to Chinese pressure over Hong Kong in order to avoid sanctions from Beijing. HKMap.
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And then there's the way he's kowtowed to Trump — recently asking the president to campaign for him in Texas — even after Trump disparaged Cruz and his wife, and insinuated Cruz's father was party to the assassination of JFK (he was not).
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Marriott, Apple, the NBA and many more kowtowed to China; an authoritarian regime located thousands of miles away increasingly exerts censorship on the U.S. Impeachment fever These examples show the extent to which the position of the U.S. in the world is weakening.
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That tipping point may be hard to imagine right now -- especially given that congressional Republicans have kowtowed to Trump at every turn over these first three years in office -- but there is always a tipping point in politics, a moment past which the impossible seems inevitable.
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It&aposs gonna have to make calls on a case-by-case basis; it&aposs probably gonna have to be really transparent about how and why it makes decisions, but overall, other companies are really struggling with, you know, appeasing China and maintaining the balance with free speech, including American companies, so, Apple has run into issues over banning an app related to the Hong Kong protests, and there&aposs criticism that Apple has really kowtowed to China over that decision.
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A tense Yue Yang kowtowed to his lord and said: "This is not to your minister's credit, it is to your credit". The Marquess rewarded Yue Yang by giving him Lingshou County (in modern-day Hebei Province) but never again used the general in an important position.
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We have fought empty-bellied and bare-footed, but have never kowtowed to anybody." As the meeting's atmosphere became increasingly hostile Khrushchev declared, "You flare up in anger. You spat on me; no one can talk to you." The meeting ended after Kapo declared, "I do not agree that the talks should be conducted like this.
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312–313 He wrote: Commentators, ranging from Kerensky to French ambassador Maurice Paléologue, regarded Michael's action as noble and patriotic,See, for example, Kerensky's The Catastrophe (1927), chap. 1, and Paléologue's An Ambassador's Memoirs (1925), vol. III, p. 241. but Nicholas was appalled that Michael had "kowtowed to the Constituent Assembly" and called the manifesto "rubbish".
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294 Jin had grown up under Manchukuo and as a schoolboy in the 1930s had kowtowed to portraits of Puyi and waved the Manchukuo flag in the streets when Puyi made visits to Harbin.Behr 1987 p. 291 As Jin had grown up in Manchukuo, he was fluent in Japanese, which was why he was selected to be the warden of Fushun.Behr 1987 p.
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She joined Sinn Féin and Inghinidhe na hÉireann ('Daughters of Ireland'), a revolutionary women's movement founded by the actress and activist Maud Gonne, muse of W. B. Yeats. Markievicz came directly to her first meeting from a function at Dublin Castle, the seat of British rule in Ireland, wearing a satin ball-gown and a diamond tiara. Naturally, the members looked upon her with some hostility. This refreshing change from being "kowtowed"-to as a countess only made her more eager to join.
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Behr 1987 p. 111 Following Manchu traditions where weddings were conducted under moonlight for good luck, an enormous procession of palace guardsmen, eunuchs, and musicians carried the Princess Wanrong in a red sedan chair called the Phoenix Chair from her house to the Forbidden City under a full moon.Behr 1987 p. 112 Wanrong was taken to the Palace of Earthly Peace within the Forbidden City, where Puyi sat upon the Dragon Throne and Wanrong kowtowed to him six times to symbolize her submission to her husband.
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Michael of Chernigov at the camp of Batu Khan (1883), painting by Vasiliy Smirnov. By the end of 1245, only Mikhail from among the three senior princes had not yet kowtowed to the conqueror. In the end, Mikhail went in time to pre-empt a Mongol punitive strike against his domain; his grandson, Boris Vasilkovich of Rostov accompanied him. When they arrived at Saray, Batu Khan sent messengers to Mikhail's camp instructing him to worship according to the laws of the Mongols by bowing to the fires and idols.
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Zhang kowtowed to Puyi at their meeting and promised to restore the House of Qing if Puyi made a large financial donation to his army. As Zhang walked with Puyi to his car at end of their meeting, he noticed a Japanese spy who had followed Puyi and said in a very loud voice, "If those Japanese lay a finger on you, let me know and I'll sort them out", which was Zhang's way of warning Puyi in a "roundabout way" not to trust his Japanese friends.Behr 1987 p.
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As Prince Chun got off the train, the Manchukuo Imperial Guards were there to greet him while Puyi was dressed in his uniform as commander-in-chief, wearing Japanese, Chinese, and Manchukuo decorations while Wanrong wore the traditional dress of a Chinese empress and kowtowed to her father-in-law.Behr 1987 p 228-229. Prince Chun told his son that he was an idiot if he really believed that the Japanese were going to restore him to the Dragon Throne, and warned him that he was just being used.Behr 1987 p 229.
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" Having told Brown's side of the Blair/Brown power struggle, it is believed that Peston used the relationship then built up with Brown for many of his later financial news story "scoops" at the BBC. In February 2008, Hodder & Stoughton published Peston's book Who Runs Britain? How the Super- Rich are Changing our Lives. In The Guardian, Polly Toynbee said of it: "Reading Peston's book, you can only be flabbergasted all over again at how Labour kowtowed to wealth, glorified the City and put all the nation's economic eggs into one dangerous basket of fizzy finance.
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And, if Ver decides to release any political prisoner detained by NISA, it equals that of Marcos as his signature is also considered as the latter's. Martial law was lifted in 1981, and Ver was appointed Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of the Philippines over a cousin, then Major-General Fidel Valdez Ramos, then the chief of the Philippine Constabulary. Thus, Ver became the most powerful officer in the military, as he headed now three institutions: the entire AFP, the PSC and NISA. Police officials, military men, businessmen, politicians, bureaucrats and other prominent figures kowtowed to him.
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Protesters commonly used LIHKG, an online forum similar to Reddit, as well as Telegram, an optionally end-to-end encrypted messaging service to communicate and brainstorm ideas for protests and to make collective decisions. Unlike previous protests, those of 2019 spread over 20 different neighbourhoods, so the entire territory witnessed them. Protesters and their supporters remained anonymous to avoid prosecutions or future potential retaliation from the authorities, employers who had a different political orientation, and corporations which kowtowed to political pressure. For the most part there are two groups of protesters, namely the "peaceful, rational and non-violent" protesters and the "fighters" group.
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There, her veil would have been removed, and she would have been expected to express unhappiness and dissatisfaction with the groom by publicly insulting him. According to tradition, a display of fireworks would probably have taken place, before both bride and groom would have kowtowed to each guest, to the groom's ancestral altar, to the spirits, and to one another, concluding the ceremony. If traditional practices were adhered to, feasting would have continued for two days, while guests would have given gifts, mainly of money, to the newlyweds. The wedding ceremony would have culminated with the guests entering the bridal chamber, where they would have made various sexual references and innuendos, led by a figure with his face painted black.
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Leave this House!".Behr, 1987 p 310 Sometimes Puyi acted in plays about his life and Manchukuo, and in one theatrical production, playing a Manchukuo functionary, Puyi kowtowed to a portrait of himself as Emperor of Manchukuo. During the Great Leap Forward, when millions of people starved to death in China, Jin chose to cancel Puyi's visits to the countryside lest the scenes of famine undo his growing faith in communism.Behr, 1987 p 309 Behr wrote that many are surprised that Puyi's "remodeling" worked, with an Emperor brought up as almost a god becoming content to be just an ordinary man, but he noted that "... it is essential to remember that Puyi was not alone in undergoing such successful 'remolding'.
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