truckling

It is known that the late D of Grafton often attended the chapple in Essex Street, and a busy friend of mine thought perhaps that I too might make a pretty little Unitarian, He therefore wrote the D without my knowledge an intimation that I would attend there, but feard that my attendance would look like truckling to my great patron who sat in the gallery? —

Letter 354 2009

Mr. Hastings singles out, as an example of such truckling, "Stanley McChrystal's Long War," an October 2009 profile by Mr. Filkins in the New York Times.

Antiwar Reporting Mark Moyar 2012

In 1856, the American Party opposed "the reckless and unwise policy of the present administration" and "a truckling subserviency" to "foreigners."

Martin Nolan: Arizona for Arizonans, Now! 2010

In 1856, the American Party opposed "the reckless and unwise policy of the present administration" and "a truckling subserviency" to "foreigners."

Martin Nolan: Arizona for Arizonans, Now! 2010

The Democrats have been out of power for so long they're afraid to lose any handhold they have, and the press and media have become so used to truckling to the Administration, it is almost a lost battle.

CT-02: Courtney Blasts Ex-Simmons Volunteer For "Blogging Hate" And Holocaust Imagery 2009

The Democrats have been out of power for so long they're afraid to lose any handhold they have, and the press and media have become so used to truckling to the Administration, it is almost a lost battle.

NY-26: Lawyer Won't Say Whether Fordham Warned Reynolds Against Foley 2009

The governor, sensitive to old-fashioned political ideas like not truckling to Washington, and still out of touch with the full scope of the hurricane's damage, turned him down.

What Went Wrong 2008

If, therefore, Alexius Comnenus was, during his anxious seat upon the throne of the East, reduced to use a base and truckling course of policy — if he was sometimes reluctant to fight when he had a conscious doubt of the valour of his troops — if he commonly employed cunning and dissimulation instead of wisdom, and perfidy instead of courage — his expedients were the disgrace of the age, rather than his own.

Count Robert of Paris 2008

I will none of such truckling, disgraceful to the dead perhaps as to the living.

Count Robert of Paris 2008

McCain's truckling to Falwell and tub thumping for Bush may finish him fast.

Bill Curry: And They're Off 2008