We are today a people in distress, left adrift at sea - with a President who acts in an exceedingly
obeisant and unpresidential manner alongside an arrogant foreign secretary who regularly tweets undiplomatically.
In the North and Northeast, because of less availability of care facilities, cross-cutting flows, not
obeisant to network structure are found.
In such an atmosphere while every citizen is entitled to enjoy the rights and interest bestowed under the constitutional and statutory law, he is also obligated to remain
obeisant to the command of law," CJI Misra said.
In a Foucauldian view, the assembled CEOs seemed like little princes, each sovereign in his own principality but
obeisant. Their wills would be obeyed in their own territories, but they would obey, be subservient to, his will: America First.
Nor are the other nine members necessarily less
obeisant. The appeal and the fear of China together, albeit variably distributed across ASEAN's ten states, favour accommodation over critique let alone rebuke.
If the chain she's fond of wearing round her neck is not symbolic of her real status, then the quality of our representatives increasingly reflects a country that is
obeisant, tractable or just too busy to notice.
Between CRM technologies, customer-facing protocols verging on
obeisant, and attempted customer service upselling, the customer service mindset is getting really confusing.
The awkward greetings started in the foyer with a frog-faced black-a-moor, an amphibian cousin to the
obeisant figurines that populated Fred Wilson's US pavilion project at the 2003 Venice Biennale.
Yet only one--The Road--is judged anxiously
obeisant. Indeed, Scott's review of that film describes its script as "follow[ing] the novel as faithfully as a hunting dog" ("Father").
Had Machiavelli heard of such policies or strategies as strategic restraint and offshore balancing, or alternately preemptive war and domino theory, he would have recognized how a prince
obeisant to public fears could follow any one of them to perdition.
Wearing the spurious mask of innocence and the wronged, he has all through played an
obeisant courtier to demonise it at the behest of his foreign masters and handlers.