Kowtowing

Chris Bowen has called for fierce critic Andrew Bolt to be sacked for saying the energy minister was 'kowtowing to the primitive' by opening a speech in with a modified Acknowledgement of Country.

He added that he had also been told by “two reporters” that “one of the factors that made it challenging for the board to fire Gay was that they were concerned it would look like they were kowtowing to me”.

Kowtowing identifies with winners, and who wants to be a loser?

Newsom did not explain how publishers are engaging in "design" when crafting textbooks that meet the Golden State's requirements, but are "kowtowing" when crafting textbooks to meet the Sunshine State's requirements.

Political pressures, combined with the Big 12 kowtowing to Bevo, saved the league and kept the surprisingly assertive Pac-12 at bay.

But that would be another path not taken, for the same reason we opted for exclusionary nation building even at the risk of instability, conflict and war, kowtowing to Sinhala-Buddhist supremacism.

He detests losing money, and Tesla is doing much more poorly in China (and elsewhere) than he expected so he's trying to turn it around by kowtowing to the Emperor again for a bigger piece of the totalitarian pie.

Stooping inspires images of stooges, the natural extension of which is towards prostration and kowtowing.

The Judges can automatically improve our economy by not kowtowing to the overbearing appurtenances of power, by not delivering technical judgements but being seen to ensure real justice.

They hated that Reagan brought down the Soviet empire by confronting them, not kowtowing to them.

Again, President Trump’s personal weaknesses – in this case, kowtowing to President Putin and the inability to choose when he speaks – left the situation no better than when he arrived.

I take my hat off but insist on leaving the bowing and kowtowing to others.

She was otherwise pitiless in assessing his wrongs: the kowtowing to tyrants, the naked abuses of power, the weaponizing of America’s racial divides for political gain.

The NBA’s kowtowing to Beijing on the events in Hong Kong have put the company at odds with many U.S. values, including free speech.

This lets us off the hook for stepping on other people and kowtowing to higher-ups, fully alert for a chance to step on them.

This relationship is based on a mutual give and take, and thus involves some degree of kowtowing by the civilian government to the wishes of the religious establishment.

The American people are sick and tired of America kowtowing to China in order to not upset the status quo and affect the bottom line.

Watching the Tories kowtowing and licking their lips that they’ll now be able to sell off the NHS to him is the lowest that party has ever fallen – and that’s saying something.

By and large, though, the film has been celebrated for featuring a cast of Asian and Asian-American actors who will now have the opportunity to break out in a big way—and for not kowtowing to studio suggestions to make its main character white.

Ishiba has been indirectly taking a swipe at Abe’s strongman leadership style, which he suggests has led to the nation’s top-notch bureaucrats kowtowing to politicians rather than prioritizing the best interests of the public.