Of course, political life is capable of many genuflections.
On such occasions as this, however, it is conventional to invoke fulsome praise and to make ritual genuflections.
Using the criminal justice system to make symbolic genuflections to political causes, however noble, only undermines the effective operation of the rule of law and fetters proper judicial discretion.
He promises to interpret the holy scripture strictly, and offers three days of fasting a week and a hundred genuflections a day.
I am not going to make a sentimental, ritual genuflection to the nurses, but face the facts and state them as they are.
My genuflection on this occasion to the traditional sentiments of trepidation and anxiety in making a maiden speech is not merely traditional.
Again, it was a genuflection to party ideology that the investment income surcharge had to start at £1,000.
At least last year we had a genuflection in the direction of a value-added tax.
