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- verb Present participle of
cow .
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Examples
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But to say that it succeeds in "cowing" the population is surely wrong.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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The piece also includes a specific, inaccurate, allegation that the government is "cowing" trade unions.
Another Green World 2008
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"cowing" other sources into following their dictates.
Gay/Lesbian Forum 2010
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But for the people of Appalachia to make any progress, we have to overcome long odds, cowardly elected officials from the region, and a powerful coal lobby with 150 years of sunken costs into cowing local, state, and federal officials into doing whatever they want them to do.
Jeff Biggers: Retaking Capitol Hill This Week: D.C. Strategist JW Randolph on Next Steps for Anti-Mountaintop Removal Movement Jeff Biggers 2011
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Or the bit in the Spectator, lamenting the "cowing of the police" by Macpherson.
Hugh Muir's diary 2012
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But for the people of Appalachia to make any progress, we have to overcome long odds, cowardly elected officials from the region, and a powerful coal lobby with 150 years of sunken costs into cowing local, state, and federal officials into doing whatever they want them to do.
Jeff Biggers: Retaking Capitol Hill This Week: D.C. Strategist JW Randolph on Next Steps for Anti-Mountaintop Removal Movement Jeff Biggers 2011
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Well, those of us old enough can remember Joe McCarthy, and his rabid press demagogues, cowing Americans into silence.
Archive 2009-09-01 2009
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No, they put their head in the sand, leaving their posterior in the air, cowing to the Unitary Executive and the Commander in Chief during a Time of War.
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Instead of cowing the population, this is only creating more instances of official abuse that are publicized on the Internet, leading to greater anger and defiance.
Why China Is Unhappy 2011
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While working on environmental issues, from food safety to energy and climate, I've seen a recurring theme: the federal regulatory agencies that are charged with monitoring big industries and guarding our public and environmental health wind up cowing to the interests of those industries over sound science and public safety.
Rebecca Tarbotton: Is the EPA Afraid to Piss off King Coal? 2010
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