Pliant in a sentence

Pliant skeletons Pliant skeletons are capable of movement; thus, when stress is applied to the skeletal structure, it deforms and then reverts to its original shape.

At the end of the day, he seems to have been selected precisely because he was pliant to the supreme leader, because he would not do what previous presidents had done, which was to actually challenge the supreme leader and the hard-line establishment.

Especially at a time when President Biden’s reelection chances look increasingly shaky and a pliant U.S. Supreme Court has shown its willingness to extend a get-out-of-jail-free card to Trump for his attempt to steal the 2020 election.

It is a thing of easy symmetry and pliant strength, and romantic in itself as the only portable shield which man has devised against the elements.

Leerink Partnrs reaffirmed an “outperform” rating on shares of Pliant Therapeutics in a research note on Monday, October 16th.

They lambasted Congress MP Rahul Gandhi for describing the country’s former kings as “pliant maharajas” subjugated by the East India Company.

And that's just with two occupants; a full house will make it more pliant.

By the time Donald Trump was elected — offering him a more pliant partner — M.B.Z. was drawing criticism from human rights groups and diplomats for his military’s role in Yemen and Libya.

That’s how, helped by a pliant attorney general, he shunted aside Robert Mueller’s evidence of obstruction of justice and conclusion that Trump welcomed Russia’s illegal assistance in 2016.

With each move to arm-twist the civilians or directly take over since 1958, the generals have found pliant politicians to endorse their undemocratic steps with rubberstamp cabinets and parliament.

As he waved his knife, slices of roasted pork rained down onto the flattop, each destined for a pliant tortilla made by a pair of women working just off to his right.

As noted above, we do it so that each child will fit into our model of ‘the perfect citizen’: that is, obedient and hardworking student, reliable and pliant employee/soldier, and submissive law-abiding citizen.

Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro is using disinformation and a pliant media to fend off criticism over the Amazon fires.

Patel was initially seen as a more pliant figure, seeming to back Modi’s shock decision in November 2016 to scrap 86 percent of the country’s currency notes.

The idea is not to have a pliant media, but a media that is robust and vibrant (and) in its different ways serving the national interest,” the statement read.

The inescapable conclusion will be that the government’s aim is to force Dr Urjit Patel to resign, appoint a pliant Governor, and convert the RBI into a conventional Board-managed company.

The specialist nodded and seemed satisfied as he inspected the ultrasound images of my insides – once rebellious, but now pliant and deferential.

By the end of the summer however, the plan had changed; now the British alone would impose the pliant Shuja Shah.

For additional structure or protection, pliant skeletons may be supported by rigid skeletons.

In the meantime Cassiodorus had succeeded Boethius as magister in 523. The pliant historian and courtier could be counted on to provide refined touches to official correspondence.