The Koran instructs, "Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day . . . until they pay compensation with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued."

Becoming an audience member is an act of willing submission.

Those who belong to the realm of goodness (the kingdom of God) are those who are under willing submission to God.

After years of willing submission to the claims of community, Cadfael stood suddenly erect and apart, again solitary.

He could have caressed her, charmed her, seduced her into willing submission, but he wanted Sabrina to take the lead.

Patricia Meyer Spacks calls him "one of the main case histories [in the book] of the gradual destructive effect of willing submission to evil wills".

It wasn't any question of willing submission, give me half a chance and I'd have shot it out with him.

This view's core beliefs call for a "husband's loving, humble headship" and "the wife's intelligent, willing submission" to his headship.

The woman hadn't quite made up her mind about the role she was expected to play, so simply maintained a look of willing submission.

This is where the Commission's preliminary draft Budget is rather timid, characterised by willing submission to the Council's mania for indiscriminate austerity measures.