kowtow

A bunch of quisling Republicans kowtowing to their aging fascist leader may seem less scary in comparison.

"Putin doesn't need to be in our state, much less our country. We have an idiot in the White House that will kowtow to this guy."

How law firms kowtowed to an administration making unprecedented demands.

And the alleged phrase captures the administration’s attitude toward the judiciary, a coequal branch of government, though you’d hardly know it by the justices’ kowtowing to the executive branch.

Those early signs of kowtowing were bad indicators that the members of Youngstown State University’s faculty union just couldn’t get behind.