Consortium members have had to offer higher rates of interest to borrowers and turn to docile retail investors for funds.
Many of the "docile" media hesitated but bolder outfits did not, setting off unprecedented coverage of the quake and its devastating impact.
`My brave wife,' returned Defarge, standing before her with his head a little bent, and his hands clasped at his back, like a docile and attentive pupil before his catechist, `I do not question all this.
In some scenes, the animated objects are docile.
The figure was a woman. Tall, slender and quite docile it seemed.
The barb can deliver a lethal blow even to humans, but incidents are extremely rare. Stingrays are fairly docile and typically strike only when provoked.
"Livestock and pets are castrated to keep them from reproducing or to create a more docile animal. In humans, castration has been used for Both cultural and medical (e.g., for testicular cancer) reasons. "
In truth, Chinese workers were never as docile as the popular caricature suggested.
I try… but the result isn’t very important,” she shrugged) and defied the feminist cliché of the docile beauty contestant, unwitting dupe to the male gaze.
Friendly and docile sheep is symbol of auspiciousness12, kindness, nicety, polite, righteousness and filial piety13.
Natural selection shaped the human brain to be drawn toward aspects of nature that enhance our survival and reproduction, like verdant landscapes and docile creatures.
These horses were docile and strong, and could cover some 12 to 14 miles a day.
But like India's similar debt burden (73% of GDP), the liabilities are mostly denominated in the country's own currency and held domestically, often by docile institutions, such as state Banks.
The Arab world faces chronic problems, but its people are no longer docile or passive. They are starting to speak out, to strike, even to take to the streets in pursuit of their demands.
He looked all right – middle-aged, docile features, trustworthy.
Without docile domestic buyers of JGBs to rely on, that would be more than just electoral hyperbole.
Your friends from home tell you you’ve changed and you’re convinced that envy’s poisoned their flabby, docile minds.
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