He went out of his way to be obeisant to legislators.

The secretary has also been excessively obeisant to Wall Street.

"We support the Americans because 95% of the time our interests coincide, not as a result of obeisant behaviour."

Beggars were obeisant, even though it was insincere.

The physician favored the planetary consort with an obeisant bow, and excused herself.

The Ferengi bowed several times, suddenly nauseatingly obeisant.

Hylle bowed, not in the obeisant greeting of a merchant, but as though he dealt equal to equal.

His appraising expression melted into that of the obeisant servant he had been before Aren Yashar.

This is a sorry vehicle, originally a simple tariff-correction bill that obeisant lawmakers have turned into a $100-billion-plus porkfest for every corporate power lobby in Washington.

(Reagan's advisers, usually so obeisant to "original intent" when interpreting the Constitution, were more cavalier on the subject of war powers.)

We the people and even this one-party-controlled, obeisant Congress must hasten to contain this (re)metastasizing contagion upon the presidency.

But Tucker did not observe a stable or complementary relationship between authoritarian Russian elites and obeisant Russian masses.

Will her devotion to progressive causes imbue her husband's campaign with badly needed passion or offend voters who expect first ladies to be obeisant sidekicks?

Models of letters for every occasion - cover, networking, post-interview thank you, post-rejection thank you - manage to be obeisant without actually groveling.

Opening with the minor blues "Three for the Festival," the band established an appropriately headlong sensibility, along with a fondly obeisant tone.

The Admiral was under strict orders to dominate the local Iczinti from the moment of first contact they were considered to be fierce but not reliably obeisant.

Statehouse proponents, ever obeisant to the gun lobby, contend that anyone with a handgun license has to pass a strict state check of criminal and mental health records.

Properly obeisant, I waited, head bowed, then--judging the homage time sufficent--I rose and walked around to the right side of the stud, unlacing the largest pouch.

On Earth, Ra has run-ins with two black opponents, an obeisant newscaster and the diabolical Mr. Overseer, and two white Federal Bureau of Investigation agents.

In recent years, mayors, who appoint two of the seven members and can use their budgetary powers for leverage, have been able to make sure board presidents are at least obeisant, if not personal allies.

Appropriating the flag for commercial purposes was considered disrespectful.15 Our attitudes toward the flag were then so obeisant that we adopted religious language to describe acts of disrespect toward Old Glory.

However, among those who were obeisant to the new religion of science, which was in its husky infancy at this time, Descartes was increasingly revered, and they attended the rite in fair number.

What underlies the move and the nationalist sentiment it has sparked are frustration with a judicial system still obeisant to Britain and with international organizations that are seen as indifferent to local problems.

She remained where she was, obeisant; as if she would have stayed there even if his fingertip had been a razor blade, and he had cut her open from top to bottom. '

The accusation might have been that Arnulf had performed undue service to Conrad to secure his investiture, or that he had been too obeisant, a charge of simony ab obsequio.