kowtow

Meanwhile, fan group Unsere Kurve said the DFB should not "kowtow to capital" by allowing Red Bull to keep Klopp on their books.

From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026

For that reason, Iran’s officers may feel no compulsion to kowtow to Beijing.

From Slate ● May 7, 2026

Smaller domestic military budgets also reduce the need for companies to kowtow to politicians by maintaining unprofitable operations in their districts or supporting civilian projects.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 1, 2026

The need to kowtow seems to have scarred Torres.

From New York Times ● Feb. 29, 2024

The entitlement that came with being one of the silk feathered hats—that all the groundlings were there simply to kowtow to your every need.

From "From Twinkle, with Love" by Sandhya Menon

The head of the department is a micromanager and everyone kowtows to him.

From New York Times ● Mar. 18, 2023

“I had to do three kowtows to the sun,” Mr. Hunt told The Guardian.

From New York Times ● Nov. 16, 2022

Even when her voice is high and sweet, she never kowtows.

From The New Yorker ● Feb. 14, 2019

And then he watches as Katrina kowtows to the Headless Horseman, in fact saving his life but also showing her shifting allegiance.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2014

Trees bowed in deep kowtows or broke their backs, a series of snaps like firecrackers popping, until one loud, sickening crack added to the cacophony in the sky.

From "When the Sea Turned to Silver" by Grace Lin

To leave James alone on a first-round island might be unfair, but the Lakers have kowtowed to him plenty in his eight years here.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2026

It kowtowed to every fashionable agenda to protect its independence.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 8, 2026

“They kowtowed to this apparent superstar with poor results.”

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 31, 2024

David Brent was the personification of what every person loathes about themselves when they inevitably succumb to the workforce—superficial, petty, and incompetent, just like the status quo he kowtowed to.

From Salon ● Apr. 28, 2016

He always made a great show of waiting on the Tates; he kowtowed to my parents when they came in.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly

Bennett argued presciently that by kowtowing to radicals, “a great university was brought low by the very forces which modern universities came into being to oppose: ignorance, irrationality and intimidation.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 17, 2026

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

From Salon ● Jun. 7, 2025

"A kowtowing of the East towards the West is not a rising East."

From BBC ● May 1, 2025

In short, the agency put forth a rule that addresses the problem head-on without prevaricating or kowtowing to corporate America.

From Slate ● Jan. 10, 2023

I don’t know why, but right then it finally dawned on me that Papa had wanted to please Grandpa out of respect and gratitude, not from kowtowing.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns