"Erm … Just a large chips please," said Fred meekly.
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I meekly admitted that all I could do was record.
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As one might expect, he isn't meekly lying in wait.
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Donaldson hit his backhand passing shot meekly into the net.
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First, that the English did not meekly comply with religious change.
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Still, the Stella workers were not meekly acquiescing to their fate.
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" The defendant then meekly added, "It was a mental issue, sir.
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However, others have tried to meekly argue against these obvious undertones.
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These events never happened and the people who said them meekly understand.
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First disbelief: "I'm so shook," I meekly typed to my coworkers in Slack.
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Interpol meekly accepted a letter of resignation purportedly sent from Meng in detention.
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"I don't want to do this," she said, looking meekly at McCallie-Steller.
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Meekly tell him to have a nice day and walk off the plane?
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That led to me meekly asking a random teen to take one for me.
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And now, it's heading out like a lamb, shuffling meekly out the rainy door.
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Or that she lost rather meekly in the semifinals to eventual champion Victoria Azarenka.
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Yet despite Mr. Erdogan's dominance of the party, the mayors did not go meekly.
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These events never, ever happened and the people that said them meekly fully understand.
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Jason Kipnis followed him and flailed meekly at a low changeup for strike three.
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It cowered against Real Madrid last season, as if waiting meekly for its fate.
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These events never, ever happened and the people that said them meekly, fully understand.
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After walking Kelly Gruber, he got Joe Carter to pop out meekly to second.
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Instead he responded meekly and briefly surrendered his dignity for the sake of political expediency.
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The machine does our work for us and meekly comes and goes at our bidding.
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Athens didn't make the same mistake as Thebes and meekly submitted to the Macedonian pike.
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Don't smoke, don't drink, be like—" she covers her mouth meekly with both hands—"'Hahaha!
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There was some cases where I sort of — in one interview with a great friend of mine, and yours, Howard Stern — said that — said that... (LAUGHTER) I said very meekly, long before we went in, I said very meekly, well, maybe, maybe, I don't know.
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But a truly reformist president would not just meekly accept a needless change to the constitution.
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"In the 18 years I knew Mike, we discussed financial issues a lot," Canary meekly replied.
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The pastor meekly obeys and the guards turn sharply and march out without a second glance.
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For a while, whenever people asked Costello the "party of Trump" question, he would protest, meekly.
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Leading off, Giancarlo Stanton took a pair of mighty cuts before meekly waving at strike three.
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They didn't meekly accede to [Facebook] Instant Articles... They're still under the sway of Amazon though.
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A single attack won't prompt the Taliban to throw in the towel and meekly agree to negotiations.
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Were the shoe on the other foot, would we Republicans meekly accept such display from dominant Democrats?
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In other cases, they're simply meekly perpetuating the "drugs are bad" trope institutionalized by America's drug war.
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They never led in the National League Championship Series, falling meekly to the Mets in four games.
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In 2000, he meekly accepted going into exile to Saudi Arabia after the military led by Gen.
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His friend pats his shoulder meekly, his Saturday night presumably not going the way he'd wanted it to.
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In 1990, a 20-year-old Mariah rather meekly appeared with her big voice and black dresses/leggings.
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They have meekly assented to the damage he is doing, afraid that confronting him might alienate Republican voters.
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Any other candidate would crumble, meekly apologize, and slink off into the night, never to be seen again.
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Will the people of New York, Illinois and California really meekly give him all of their electoral votes?
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Short meekly implored the investigators to leave his personal property alone, but they ignored him and opened the cooler.
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But House Republicans, rather than sticking to their initial plan of governing the country responsibly, meekly indulged his tantrum.
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Public opinion firmly turned against Weiner, and he limped meekly to a nearly last-place finish in the race.
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It is quieter and darker here, with those waiting to be seen sitting meekly on stools lining the corridor.
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They meekly stand by the cordon and as the elephants come towards them they dart out of the way.
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We're left with little more than a meekly satirical spread in a magazine advertising the (very expensive) spring collections.
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"It means we've got the numbers to fight now, we just need to find some guns," Tara offers meekly.
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Our recently diagnosed columnist says there's no reason to meekly accept sleep apnea, given the number of treatment options.
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The coaches had Nimmo stand motionless as the next two batters struck out and the third grounded out meekly.
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Anyway, the truth is that we should not meekly wait for these giant tech companies to protect us from ourselves.
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Cersei Lannister, having burned so bright and violent for most of the show, peters out meekly in the penultimate episode.
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It's as if, instead of falling in a blaze of glory, Davy Crockett meekly handed Old Betsy over to Gen.
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At one point in the video, he backs her into a literal corner and kisses her while she meekly protests.
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As I learned, there's no reason to meekly accept sleep apnea: There are many treatment options that can control it.
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Despite running a branch of government that the Constitution makes equal to the presidency, they have meekly assented to Trump.
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Will the people of New York, Illinois and California really meekly give him or her all of their electoral votes?
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Instead, he meekly takes his place in the paddy wagon and is sprung only by intervention of the royal valet.
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We'll never meekly submit our stories, our pain, our dignity to the ever-grinding wheels of the hit-making machine.
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He started well by striking out Javier Baez on a comically-high four-seam fastball that Baez flailed at meekly.
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I'm sure I've been conscious of the latter and meekly wiped perfectly viable blueberry syrup off my palm in the past.
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It is unsettling that the United States and Europe have responded so meekly to Mr. Erdogan's trampling of a free press.
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Do you reckon Rooney's son was proud of his dad after seeing him meekly slap an enormous man on international TV?
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You meekly present your boss with your two weeks' notice, then work quietly for the next fortnight before disappearing into oblivion.
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Were the shoe on the other foot, we Republicans — would we Republicans meekly accept such behavior on display from dominant Democrats?
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It was a clear factor starting with the night's red carpet interviews in which celebrities meekly mentioned his very recent death.
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On Thursday afternoon, Verdasco, ranked 45th, meekly fell, 20143-6, 6-3, 6-3, 7-6 (4), to 87th-ranked Dudi Sela.
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The most likely outcome here has Solo pulling in enough around the world for Disney to meekly frame it as a success.
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Mr Nazarbayev used to win presidential polls with over 95% of all votes (even a notional opponent once meekly voted for him).
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The Obama administration is now presented with the choice of meekly accepting this latest destructive act of repression or responding with consequences.
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"The Taliban won't simply meekly agree to talks and especially as this strike could worsen the fragmentation within the organization," he said.
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Venus hammered a forehand winner to bring up three match points and Pavlyuchenkova surrendered the match meekly with her ninth double-fault.
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" When she pressed, Perry meekly added that he'd try to advocate for these agencies, "but I may not be 1,000 percent successful.
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" When she pressed, Perry meekly added that he'd try to advocate for these agencies, "but I may not be 22004,22006 percent successful.
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And Howl, a grooming-obsessed fuckboy of a wizard who professes himself terrified of Sophie, does meekly as she tells him to.
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The exchange ended, mercifully, with a booming Nadal down-the-line forehand, which the powerfully built Tiafoe sent meekly into the net.
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He tosses around insults like there's no tomorrow, and for the most part the other characters stand there meekly and take it.
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Twice now Brussels has threatened to penalise Italy for its excessive debt, and twice the government has meekly toned down its deficit plans.
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You probably know not to meekly retreat to the sad row of chairs against the wall in a conference room, but then where?
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One victim was a meekly compliant pensioner arrested for drunk driving who was knocked out by an angry copper (he kept his job).
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"These events never, ever happened and the people that said them, meekly, fully understand," he said at a rally in swing state Florida.
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But Hughes struck out Sands and Alex Avila before getting Austin Jackson to ground out meekly to third base to stymie the threat.
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In the second, in Germany in 2006, the Americans went out meekly in the group stage, leading to Arena's first ouster as coach.
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Lewandowski all but strutted out of that hearing room as Democrats muttered meekly about a contempt citation that would involve time, courts, etc.
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Did anyone really expect the prophet of Ranch Apocalypse to meekly surrender his sheep to the enemy and come out with his hands up?
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The courts had meekly convicted his predecessor-but-one as president, his vice president, his defence minister and the heads of two opposition parties.
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" Bannon, who is rapidly losing his access to power and funding, meekly replied by going on the radio and calling Trump a "great man.
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Though they fell meekly to Lance McCullers's power curveball Wednesday, the Yankees took two of three games in their series with the Houston Astros.
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I meekly corrected my usage to "guest," whereupon he lowered his chin enough to indicate that I might possibly deserve to see a menu.
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He watched on as Nathan Lyon claimed six wickets and Pat Cummins the other four as England were meekly dispatched for a meager 146.
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He got the struggling Didi Gregorius — dropped to seventh in the order — to pop meekly to center on a 96-mile-per-hour fastball.
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When one guy asked meekly if DeMario was coming back, Rachel dropped a "[expletive] no," was called "fierce" and eventually made it all explicit.
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And finally, he meekly condemned molestation accusations against Republican Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore before saying he should stay in the race, then blasted Sen.
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What perhaps was most striking as they meekly exited Europe was that even the mercurial Argentine appeared drained of his superpowers against a resilient backline.
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When and if all hell breaks loose at the GOP convention in Cleveland, Graham won't be hiding from view or watching meekly from the sidelines.
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Even if it wasn't, Jennifer meekly asks the members of Low Shoulder if they're rapists once she notices something isn't right in their tour van.
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On Sunday the Mets fell meekly, 2-0, with the Cubs scoring on a steal of home and a sacrifice fly to the second baseman.
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Both of these men have stood up against the anti-constitutional, zero-sum, resentment presidency of Trump, while others in their party stand by meekly.
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Even as some Republicans meekly admitted the president behaved improperly, only Senator Mitt Romney joined the Democrats to vote in favor of removing the president.
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When she complains to Axe, he shoots her down, treating her no better than the analyst who meekly suggested that they look into Apple stock.
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She is by no means meekly shaking that head, still banging loudly on any table within banging distance, giving speeches nationwide and enlivening television debates.
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But Mr Johnson, supposedly the champion of taking back control, avoided any such commitment, instead saying meekly that the relationship with America was of "fantastic importance".
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I went on a date last night and the guy meekly shared that he used to be THE GENERAL MANAGER FOR THE TIMES SQUARE OLIVE GARDEN.
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In an excruciating scene, Jaczko sits meekly before a Congressional committee while several of his fellow commissioners, sitting right next to him, excoriate his job performance.
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Mr Hu had meekly avoided using the term to describe himself, in order perhaps to convey a sense that the party was moving beyond strongman politics.
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Lacie has no such option; when a company screws her over, showing no remorse and giving her no recourse, she's expected to retreat meekly and politely.
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Bloomberg also claims Apple's new Mac Pro, which was meekly announced way back in April 2017, and then properly announced this June, will come in December.
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In March, the 215-year-old lost meekly in the quarterfinals of the Miami Open to No. 23 Johanna Konta, 26-53, 25-212, 12-2.
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Appropriate legal challenges to abuse of power by government officials are a viable alternative to meekly accepting the continuing actions by the president and his administration.
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The menacing Bryce Harper, up with the bases loaded in the bottom of the ninth, bounced meekly to pitcher Josh Edgin for the final double play.
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In one encounter, the president, George Bridges, was recorded meekly complying with a demand not to use hand gestures when he spoke because they were threatening.
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But then, remembering that Pence would have to file for reelection for governor Friday – or not – he meekly dribbled out the bug news via a tweet.
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It's funny: Republican voters came to embrace Trump — and then Republican lawmakers meekly followed suit — though he hadn't done all that much for the party before.
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The Yankees went down meekly in a three-game sweep against Toronto, getting outscored 15-3, and have put up five runs in their past four games.
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Or, in my case, when your boss says, "The Internet is using wasabi as a lip plumper, you in?" you do a hail Mary and meekly nod.
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But if that doesn't happen — and experience suggests it won't — advocates will not meekly retreat; the stakes are too high, and the administration has outraged too many.
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After fighting back to tie the series, 21948-21973, the Astros fall meekly, sending Cleveland to the World Series for the second year in a row. Oct.
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Wang reprieved Williams twice on match point but the American could not make her pay and bowed out somewhat meekly with a backhand fired into the net.
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First is competition, which determines the approach to progress — one party achieves "the winner takes all," others meekly fall in line for the droppings from the table.
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You can have them, Dad whispers meekly, if you'll only— This offer enrages the officer and he whips out his semiautomatic pistol and puts it to Dad's head.
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Yet at a rally on March 10th, supporters meekly stopped booing mentions of Kim Jong Un when Mr Trump told them that a summit could be "very positive".
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He got Buster Posey to ground into a double play, scoring Eduardo Nunez, before inducing Brandon Crawford to fly meekly to center field to secure his seventh save.
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All four men were shown meekly renouncing their activist pasts and urging people to guard against sinister forces threatening the Communist Party, before they were convicted and sentenced.
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Relegated to the role of doormat and enabler, Annette watches meekly as her husband indulges his yearslong obsession with his pet prostitute and frequent model, Caroline (Clémence Poésy).
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America switched to a policy of "maximum pressure": sanctions designed to cause Iranians to rebel against the mullahs or to force Iran meekly back to the negotiating table.
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When last we encountered Jesus Quintana, the bumptious Latino bowler was going door-to-door in his new neighborhood, meekly sharing that he was a registered sex offender.
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It is a sad day for a country with such a noble history as Qatar to be governed so meekly and incompetently as the Qatari government is now.
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In March, Melina Duterte faced the crowd from the stage of the Brooklyn club Baby's All Right and meekly asked everyone to sing along with her next song.
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"I'm just cooling off, sir," one shirtless man protested meekly, before an officer ordered him onto the back of a motorcycle to be taken to the police station.
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You can meekly ask the company to unblock your material, and if you disagree with their (eventual) response, you can hire lawyers and sue to have your material uncensored.
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Mainstream parties of left and right often struggle to find the vocabulary to discuss culture, nation, race and immigration; some change the subject, others meekly ape the far right.
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But rather than rolling over meekly to the Warriors, as Mr James's teams had done in the previous two championship series, the Raptors decisively dismantled the league's reigning dynasty.
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"Um, don't you get line-jumping privileges or something?" you meekly ask, stepping aside to let this mountain of a man pass lest he get hangry and eat you.
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But as the narrative begins, this Wotan walks up the raked planks of the production's massive set and assumes a lordly stance, looking past Brünnhilde, who stands meekly below.
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Kerber left head bowed from Rod Laver Arena after a 6-2 6-3 defeat by 35th-ranked American Coco Vandeweghe, her final stand ending meekly in 68 minutes.
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Rather than submit meekly to American dominance of the world's oceans and seas, the Soviet Union built an oceangoing fleet larger, albeit more technologically backward, than the US Navy fleet.
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It venerates the peace-minded medieval brothers Boris and Gleb, martyred princes who accepted death meekly; and Saint Philip, martyred in 1569 because he challenged Ivan the Terrible's killing sprees.
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On how it began: I went on a date last night and the guy meekly shared that he used to be THE GENERAL MANAGER FOR THE TIMES SQUARE OLIVE GARDEN.
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Instead, senators like John McCain and Susan Collins, who won widespread praise for standing up against Obamacare repeal during the summer, went along meekly with a monstrously awful tax bill.
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Mark Sanford just became the third Republican to announce a 2020 primary challenge and to dream of a successful insurrection against an emperor whom most of the party meekly obeys.
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ST PETERSBURG (Reuters) - Switzerland were too slow and lacked emotion, coach Vladimir Petkovic said on Tuesday, after watching his side meekly surrender to Sweden in their round of 16 tie.
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The "institutionalists" who protect procedures such as the filibuster have consented meekly while McConnell (and, to be fair, Reid to a lesser extent before him) has shut down the Senate.
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But as the year wore on, it became clear that Trump steamrolled the Republican establishment to win the White House only to meekly submit to their agenda once in office.
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There aren't that many women who would meekly accept this idea that the woman should stay in the home, should not argue with the man — this whole bundle of old attitudes.
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On the matter of Assad's fate, Washington stepped back meekly, allowing Russia and Hezbollah, Iran's Lebanese ally, to jump in to save the Syrian dictator who has spilled oceans of blood.
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That means that many Trump voters are totally reachable by the right Democrat, and that, in 2020, the right candidate won't need to tack meekly to the center to win them.
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Not all of his allies will want to risk giving up power meekly; some would probably prefer to shoot more protesters and lock up more opposition leaders than lose their seats.
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" Far too often, individual U.S. senators talk about casting a "no" vote in splendid speeches on the floor, but then forget their own words and roll over and meekly vote "yes.
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With the government grappling with sanctions and austerity, and Russia's economy only meekly emerging from a recession, budget contributions from Gazprom in the form of dividends are more important than ever.
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Jimmy Kimmel cracked a joke about Steve Harvey, Warren Beatty meekly apologized, and Barry Jenkins, who could hardly contain his surprise, gave a speech that put a period on the whole night.
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Paul takes an aggressive hand toward keeping his family safe, and Travis meekly watches and obeys, but their lives change when a stranger breaks into their house and changes their family dynamic.
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Flake never mentioned Trump by name, but it was obvious to whom he was referring when he said things like this: We must never meekly accept the daily sundering of our country.
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How we all actually behave behind closed doors is no Charlie Rich romance and is rarely ethical, often disgusting, and frequently tragic — particularly, sexually, for women one might meekly note, yet again.
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Standing meekly on its own is a young, recently planted Torreya pine — a rare species that grows only in a local state park, where the population is threatened by a spreading fungus.
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We're over half of the way into the new season, and the closest we've come to seeing Coop in his prime is Dougie meekly muttering "damn good" while eating pie with Jim Belushi.
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An irate Earn waxes from fuming indignation to pained distress over the loss of his phone — his sole tradeable commodity — until Darius meekly offers his own phone for Earn to use as tender.
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Yesterday, it was the BIA official, meekly commenting that he was "not in a position today to be able to state an official agency position" on the two advanced appropriations bills being considered.
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After blitzing the opening set in 24 minutes, Halep meekly surrendered the second to the 34th-ranked Babos, who had been knocked out in the opening round in four previous visits to Flushing Meadows.
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By then the damage had been done, with a distraught and flustered Begu meekly surrendering the tiebreak before she slumped into her chair and hid under a towel in an attempt to regain composure.
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"I take him at his word," the senator said rather meekly after Mr. Trump denied that he had ever committed the sexual assaults on women that he bragged about in the "Access Hollywood" tape.
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" The former Krystle (Linda Evans) had been Blake's secretary, positioned in perpetual saintly opposition to the devious Alexis and meekly tiptoeing around the Carrington mansion like the nameless heroine of Daphne du Maurier's "Rebecca.
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Mr Prayuth has meekly complied with even the most awkward of the king's demands, agreeing, for instance, to change the text of the new constitution even after Thai voters had signed off on it.
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She's a fascinating paradox, at once subdued and adventurous: One moment, she's meekly enduring the affectionate nagging of her anxious mother (Purbi Joshi); the next, she's racing through their Chicago suburb on her skateboard.
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Long the benchmark of excellence in the sport, Germany's dismal campaign ended meekly, with stoppage-time goals by Kim Young-gwon and Son Heung-min condemning Joachim Loew's side to finishing bottom of their group.
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Bothered by deep blisters in his foot during last year's Wimbledon final, Cilic fell meekly to Federer, 6-3, 6-1, 6-4, in 1:41, at one point weeping into his towel in frustration.
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Meanwhile the song's opening thunderstorm and no-fucks given attitude signal that witchcraft need not be served meekly à la Little Mix for the mainstream to accept it as a desirable communicator of female self-empowerment.
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In meekly ceding the race to Trump on Tuesday, Cruz joined a growing group of rivals who had denounced the front-runner's candidacy in apocalyptic terms, only to soften their opposition as the general election neared.
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The upcoming midterm election is our best chance to fight back against an administration shot through with unprecedented lying, gaslighting, corruption and anti-American intolerance — by electing a Congress that will doggedly investigate, not meekly enable.
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This was a time when words like "cinematic" and "sparkling" and "ethereal" ran unchecked as go-to pop music descriptors; but by 20133, it all meekly receded into the middle-distance origins from whence it came.
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The role sees Streep meekly prodding and sometimes clumsily poking at Celeste and the rest of the Monterey 5 for answers about her dead son, but there's something clearly nefarious lurking beneath Mary Louise's innocent facade.
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Some of the most powerful health care groups opposing the bill have responded meekly to the lack of public hearings, as I wrote Tuesday, while much of the media has been distracted by shiny objects elsewhere.
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For the first time in his pro career, the Chiefs quarterback was held to fewer than 114 points, going out fairly meekly in a 11-137 loss to Indianapolis, thanks in part to an injured ankle.
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The sources said China could step up some imports from the United States and boost its investment there to help create more jobs as a goodwill gesture, but would not meekly accept any unilateral U.S. action.
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Gun control advocates have called for prohibiting possession of AR-15 rifles — a ban that could create five million new felons overnight, since most owners would not meekly surrender their firearms at the nearest federal office.
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China will not be so easily pushed around—its economy depends less on exports to America than Canada's and Mexico's do and Mr Xi cannot afford meekly to disavow his Chinese Dream in front of his people.
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Fortunately, there are countless people around the world who are not prepared to meekly abandon the hard-won gains of the past century, from gender equality to the right to health, education, access to justice and peace.
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He struck out all three times he faced Keuchel, injured his left wrist while bracing himself after catching a ball against the wall, and was booed vociferously when he grounded out meekly in his final at-bat.
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To make matters worse, instead of snapping its jaws at Pakistan's failure to meet targets, the IMF meekly indulged its partner, argues Khurram Husain, a journalist working on a book about the relationship between Pakistan and the IMF.
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The extent to which her game had plummeted from the heights of her two Grand Slam title successes at the U.S. and Australian Opens was laid bare when she exited Wimbledon meekly in the first round on Monday.
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They call it "Syrizification", after the Greek left-wingers who protested but then meekly accepted Brussels' demands during bail-out negotiations with the EU. Mr McDonnell is likely to keep throwing this wing of the party red meat.
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But even when the movie meekly alludes to the fact that she has a husband, it lacks the brazen acceptance of open relationships that made Robin Wright's character in Girl with the Dragon Tattoo feel so Scandi-chic.
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The answer is simple: With negotiations going nowhere, Trump should respond with a devastating one-two strategy, instead of sending that meekly defensive tweet last Friday that his people "had a very good talk" with their Chinese counterparts.
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It's only loosely connected to the original by being set in a bed and featuring the "Famous" instrumental on loop in the background; otherwise this is just a bunch of clothed famous people meekly flirting with each other.
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To be fair, those social platforms didn't really assert their own decisions to oust Jones — Apple led the pack, kicking him out of its Podcasts app, and the rest — Facebook, Spotify and YouTube, most notably — meekly followed suit.
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At one point a wiry man in a "HIL NO" T-shirt and a lopsided Trump wig lunged at the guard rail around our tables, muscles tense, and berated a local reporter sitting meekly in the front row.
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Detroit made the playoffs last season with a 9-7 mark, but it lost its final three games after Stafford dislocated a finger on his throwing hand and bowed out meekly in a first-round playoff loss in Seattle.
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One moment, in which a chef hollers for a stampede of museum donors at a dinner to stop moving so he can meekly tell them the buffet's offerings, is one of the funniest things I've seen in a movie.
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In Paddy Considine's "Tyrannosaur," she played a meekly religious, abused wife; in "Fleabag" a hilariously poisonous stepmother; in "Run," a tough-as-nails inner city mother; in "Broadchurch" she was an often tearful, often irritable, willfully unglamorous police officer.
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But instead of making an issue about it, the usually assertive Warren meekly answered that she'd have to check her plan when she was asked whether the sweetheart deals the younger Biden got would be allowed in her administration.
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" He continued, "The financial 'elites' — wealthy individuals, pension funds, college endowments and the like — have great trouble meekly signing up for a financial product or service that is available as well to people investing only a few thousand dollars.
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The US State Department's Deputy Spokesman Robert Palladino has said meekly that the "Sudanese people should determine who leads them" and should have quicker elections than those currently planned -- hardly a strident and supportive speech from the Rose Garden.
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Companies tend to give their information away or meekly agree to "partnerships" like Facebook's, where the fabulously rich and influential company paid a pittance of money and attention so it could claim to be taking a stand against disinformation.
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It is why Mark Zuckerberg does not want to be seen deciding between true and false news, why the idea that Democratic Party elites favored Hillary Clinton rankles so deeply, why Republican delegates meekly assented to Donald Trump's nomination.
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For that reason, the financial 'elites' – wealthy individuals, pension funds, college endowments and the like – have great trouble meekly signing up for a financial product or service that is available as well to people investing only a few thousand dollars.
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Had they meekly obeyed the White House's instructions to stay quiet -- as Don McGahn, Mike Pompeo and others did before -- neither Congress nor the public would have had a full understanding of Trump's apparent misuse of office and abuse of power.
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In the late match, Keys (1-1) looked a completely different player to the one who surrendered meekly to Halep on Sunday when she jumped all over Cibulkova's (0-2) serve to race through the first set in just 23 minutes.
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My fashion bosses would occasionally come in, and I was this meekly intern who was embarrassed that she was the only one who needed to have a second job, but there I was selling drugs in front of their nose.
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France is meekly taking it on the chin with annual deficits of 36 to 41 billion euros on its German trades, and the rest of Europe does not dare question what it wrongly sees as a virtuously strong German economy.
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And even Flake, whose polling in Arizona was genuinely bleak, is only making it easier for a Trumpian to fill his seat by meekly standing aside rather than asking McCain and Romney and Bush to barnstorm the state with him.
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Not content to go out meekly on a third consecutive drive, Matt Ryan steadily moved his team down the field with two consecutive completions to Julio Jones that covered 42 yards, followed by a 15-yard run by Devonta Freeman.
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So rather than meekly paying whatever we are told, up to nearly $75,000 a year, all-in, at the most selective colleges, perhaps we ought to be a bit more greedy when demanding data, and more assertive about seeking demonstrated proof of value.
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" While the Welsh poet's words may originally have been a call to not meekly accept death, the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has found that they have helped to suggest "that driving was a way of releasing anger, which put the driver, other motorists and pedestrians at risk.
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But in October 2017 the president meekly declared the epidemic a "national public-health emergency", rather than invoking a formal "national emergency" as he had promised on the campaign trail (and as he did in an effort to get funding for a wall on America's southern border).
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Suicide Squad is as erratic as he is; it switches tracks regularly, jerking Deadshot and the others through extreme attitude changes that never feel earned or natural, and railroading them back into a plot that's more exciting when they're resisting it than when they're meekly cooperating.
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Down by 217 points in the fourth quarter, Coach Matt Nagy pulled quarterback Mitchell Trubisky — the team said Trubisky injured his hip, but he was a full participant in practice this week — and they meekly turned the ball over on downs to effectively end the game.
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A mostly quiet first half ended with the Chiefs going out meekly, as Patrick Mahomes momentarily lost the ball on a strip-sack fumble before he recovered it and simply knelt on the ball to send his team to the locker room, down by 25-280.
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As she explained in 1952 in a letter to her employer, the State Department, during their investigation of her as a suspected Communist sympathizer (she was not): I was brought up to believe that there is no virtue in conforming meekly to the dominant opinion of the moment.
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Red-hot Kendrys Morales drove in a pair of first-inning runs Friday to give him 18 RBIs in his last 10 games, but the Royals went down meekly the rest of the way in the 383-2 loss to drop four games out of the second wild card.
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Men are more violent than women, a fact we are prone to invoking not as a statistic but either meekly, as a quandary, or gravely, as a judgment; at a time of viral outrage like the #MeToo moment, we may sense gradations but are afraid to be labeled apologists.
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In his life, Orbison seldom spoke the audience when he wasn't singing, so when the hologram took a stab at some light crowdwork, meekly thanking the audience for their applause after he finished a song, the clumsiness of a projection play-acting as the real thing felt fitting.
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"Any notion that he might crash this part of Ireland out of the European Union and cause the level of jeopardy and damage ... and that people would meekly go along with that, is deeply misguided and that would be a very dangerous course of action of political action," she said.
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French President Emmanuel Macron, who has invested in a warm personal relationship with Trump, said the other G7 nations - Britain, Canada, Germany, Italy and Japan, as well as France - should remain "polite" and productive but warned that "no leader is forever," a sign that Europe would not surrender meekly to the U.S. president.
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The clip of a clearly traumatized child pleading for a male adult police officer to "get off of me" as he screams at her, while a school official meekly protested the treatment, vividly illustrates the report's central premise: that the SRO program, as it exists in most states, desperately needs training and oversight.
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I've meekly apologized for it to countless facialists, I've referenced it in what feels like a hundred stories, and I've done just about everything to quit it: therapy, journaling, snapping a rubber band, throwing out every tweezer and safety pin in my apartment, anti-depressants... But nothing works for any significant amount of time.
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Back in the US, some politicians on Capitol Hill have recently (and meekly) suggested that maybe Zuckerberg should come testify to Congress about the apparent damage the social media company has done to the US. But when these inquiries came up in the past, Facebook only sent lackeys like lawyers to give official statements.
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Even after "Amma"—"Mother"—a former idol of the Tamil film industry, died in December, Mr Panneerselvam meekly agreed to step aside as chief minister in favour of V.K. Sasikala (pictured), a woman who has no political experience beyond having lived with Ms Jayalalithaa for the past 30 years, but is claiming her mantle.
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We must never meekly accept the daily sundering of our country—the personal attacks, the threats against principles, freedoms and institutions; the flagrant disregard for truth or decency, the reckless provocations, most often for the pettiest and most personal reasons…None of these appalling features of our current politics should ever be regarded as normal.
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As a victory lap for his three Grammy noms—for rap album, song, and performance—he offered a muted rendition of "Stop Trying to Be God," accompanied by James Blake emoting meekly in a turtleneck and trenchcoat and Earth, Wind & Fire (??) before going into an ecstatic "No Bystanders," featuring some kids climbing a big cage.
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Many Democrats will howl that this will only weaken the party's bid to unseat President Trump, but get real: A person with enough drive and ambition to think he or she should be the leader of the most powerful nation in history is not meekly going to step aside to serve the common good.
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Lorelai's oft-discussed triumphant life story, a gleaming heroine's tale about independence, hard work, and inner strength, ends with her meekly accepting that she won't get to have another child, and that she will have to take a ton of money from her parents to expand her inn — anything so she doesn't go completely stir-crazy.
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Trump didn't help matters with his surprisingly civil and normal concession speech, in which he graciously congratulated Cruz, praised all the other candidates, and meekly suggested that he beat the initial expectations set when he entered the race in June 2015, when "Donald Trump for president" was treated by most media as a publicity stunt, not a serious candidacy.
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And therein lies the oddity: If you actually experienced these worlds, and contrasted them with the normal world of high-minded liberal secularism, it was the charismatic-religious and "health food" regions where people were the most personally empirical, least inclined to meekly submit to authority, and most determined to reason independently and keep trying things until they worked.
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The week in Rome, capped by his competitive match against Nadal, had shown Djokovic again able to contend with the game's best, after several months of wayward results, which perhaps hit a nadir when he meekly faded against 109th-ranked Taro Daniel at Indian Wells in March, part of his first three-match losing streak since 2007.
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We must never meekly accept the daily sundering of our country -- the personal attacks, the threats against principles, freedoms, and institutions, the flagrant disregard for truth or decency, the reckless provocations, most often for the pettiest and most personal reasons, reasons having nothing whatsoever to do with the fortunes of the people that we have all been elected to serve.
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We must never meekly accept the daily sundering of our country - the personal attacks, the threats against principles, freedoms, and institutions, the flagrant disregard for truth or decency, the reckless provocations, most often for the pettiest and most personal reasons, reasons having nothing whatsoever to do with the fortunes of the people that we have all been elected to serve.
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We must never meekly accept the daily sundering of our country — the personal attacks, the threats against principles, freedoms and institutions, the flagrant disregard for truth or decency, the reckless provocations, most often for the pettiest and most personal reasons, reasons having nothing whatsoever to do with the fortunes of the people that we have all been elected to serve.
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"We must never meekly accept the daily sundering of our country, the personal attacks, the threats against principles, freedoms and institution, the flagrant disregard for truth and decency, the reckless provocations — most often for the pettiest and most personal reasons, reasons having nothing to whatsoever to do with the fortunes of the people that we have been elected to serve," he said.
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This despite numerous gaffes (confusing Theresa May for Margaret Thatcher; conflating the stories of heroism of several different military members into one tale; calling President Trump "Donald Hump"); a disastrous debate performance (failing to rebut Kamala Harris's attack on his opposition to school busing by meekly offering, "My time is up"); and, most recently, being subjected to unrelenting (and false) attacks by President Trump and his Republican allies that Biden and his son Hunter are corrupt.
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Jeff MerkleyJeffrey (Jeff) Alan MerkleySenate Democrats push Trump to permanently shutter migrant detention facility Senate Dem seeks answers from DHS on reports of pregnant asylum seekers sent back to Mexico Schumer backs Pelosi as impeachment roils caucus MORE of Oregon and Sherrod BrownSherrod Campbell BrownDayton mayor assigned extra security following verbal spat with Trump The Hill's Campaign Report: Battle for Senate begins to take shape Dayton Democrat launches challenge to longtime GOP rep MORE of Ohio have meekly opted out.
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