kowtow informal , also: kotow

For more than 40 years, we have kowtowed to Washington.

I want to step out and have important people kowtow to me.

"And we are not going to kowtow to one side or the other."

But Wilson had done everything short of kowtowing to change his mind.

I'm not going to kowtow and have children on computers.

Again, the British government has talked a good game, while kowtowing to the money men.

Good; it's about time that we stopped kowtowing to the right.

For what else is going to give you the right not to kowtow to the boss?

We were just getting ready to head back to Kowtow when you started to wake up.

I didn't kowtow to him like the rest of the people here.

What is more, a President might come along to whom one preferred not to kowtow.

That might explain why so many people kowtow to Edward, though.

I would not kowtow to this common idea that women fall apart when things get tough.

No bosses to bow down to or kids to kowtow to.

They are still close to their banks, but the bankers kowtow to them, not the other way around.

It would have never occurred to me that the map led to Kowtow.

In modern times, usage of the kowtow has become much reduced.

He knelt and placed his hands on the floor in a deep kowtow.

"Human nature, in the large, will take the view that he kowtowed to save his life.

Some people like to burn incense and kowtow to the book.

This ritual has become more commonly known in the West as kowtow.

The men looked at one another, threw down their swords and tried to kowtow.

His discourse also lasted about an hour, after which they both kowtowed again and took their leave.

Everyone else ultimately has to kowtow to the carriers to some degree.

From this point on, Moss will never again kowtow to prejudice.