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- noun Plural form of
kowtow .
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Examples
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Because, many Malays feel that it "kowtows" to DAP.
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"Instead of standing up for Massachusetts families, small businesses and seniors, Brown kowtows to the Republican establishment in Washington."
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Because the USPS kowtows to the union, its low productivity mail carriers and sorters get paid better than federal hospital medical technologists and radiation technologists who have bachelor of science degrees and who are far more productive.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Health Care and the Post Office 2010
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And the latest Republican meme is that President Obama is weak and kowtows to bullies.
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Because the USPS kowtows to the union, its low productivity mail carriers and sorters get paid better than federal hospital medical technologists and radiation technologists who have bachelor of science degrees and who are far more productive.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Health Care and the Post Office 2010
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A president who kowtows (nearly literally in some cases) to podunk potentates and calls it “restoring respect” to America.
Read the Washington Post! Quickly, before it changes! | RedState 2010
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He kowtows, septic skull to the pavement, eyes crusting with small, yellow horrors.
Day 7: Pigeon Savant Jane Flett 2011
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But what we aren't getting to see much of is the Lawrence Summers who recognizes that reforms and change are needed in an economy that over-kowtows to the financial sector.
Steve Clemons: Lawrence Summers Needs to Retool his Wall Street Tilt Steve Clemons 2010
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A president who kowtows (nearly literally in some cases) to podunk potentates and calls it “restoring respect” to America.
Read the Washington Post! Quickly, before it changes! | RedState 2010
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Blame those who uphold the status quo because every time a pro-abortion woman pipes up with just one simple word: “Discrimination!” everyone kowtows and scuttles away in scared silence.
ProWomanProLife » The abortion distortion, Part 145,367 2010
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