Supplicants

He's got three people at the top, and they are supplicants," said Palmeri.

Yet, even in Oregon, where a law is on the books that forbid the construction of new nuclear power plants until a viable solution is found to store nuclear waste, the industry and its supplicants in the media and government are trying to overturn the law.

It is only one project in the field of “prayer studies”; others have sought to evaluate “distant intercessory healing” and even intercessory prayer, in which contemporary supplicants sought to affect the recovery of patients in the past.

The supplicants came bearing tithes.

To leave without disastrous economic consequences (such as a collapse in inward investment), we find ourselves supplicants, begging for a good deal.

What the Airbus story reveals again is that our political classes – from Holyrood to Westminster to Cardiff Bay – have made themselves supplicants for foreign investment.

Ajax's actions were a sacrilege because Cassandra was a supplicant of Athena and supplicants were untouchable in the sanctuary of a god, under the protection of that god.

Japanese brought items to "offer" to Korea and received in exchange "gifts" of higher value, since Korea was a greater land receiving supplicants.