Examples of kowtow

• Why kowtow to those awful older buildings instead of knocking them down to start again with a neat, clean field?

• Most importantly, this would be an admission of failure which would amount to kowtowing to the financial sector.

• It is not kowtowing to any momentary spasm.

• In fact, one cannot kowtow to both arguments.

• Do we create some kind of licensing system for journalists which prevents them from working until they kowtow to the courts?

• It is a dependency economy kowtowing to successive governments for hand-outs.

• It is not acceptable that the interests of our businessmen and consumers are treated as if we constantly have to kowtow.

• However, we have found that his policy allows him to bully and lecture the weak while kowtowing obsequiously to the strong.

• It cannot kowtow to the political authorities of any one state.

• It is bad for the clergy, it is not dignified that the clergy should have to kowtow to the bishops as they have to do.

• The kowtow remains alive as part of a formal induction ceremony in certain traditional trades that involve apprenticeship or discipleship.

• In extreme cases, the kowtow can be used to express profound gratitude, apology, or to beg for forgiveness.

• The household then kneels three times and kowtows nine times to pay obeisance and wish him a long life.

• For example, some, but not all, people would choose to kowtow before the grave of an ancestor, or while making traditional offerings to an ancestor.

• During a wedding, some couples may kowtow to their respective parents, though the standing bow is today more common.