What's the difference between kowtow and prostrate?
Kowtow
Definition:
(n. & v. i.) The same as Kotow.
Example Sentences:
(1) Speaking at a conference hosted by the Airport Operators Association, he said there was no need to "kowtow to the Americans every time they wanted something done".
(2) As “moderate liberals” were kowtowing to Beijing in the 1990s, it was Corbyn who stood shoulder to shoulder with Tibetans, whose homeland, annexed over half a century ago by China, is now has the miserable distinction of being the world’s largest colony.
(3) Britain should stop "kowtowing" to US demands over airport security, the chairman of British Airways, Martin Broughton, has said, adding that American airports did not implement some checks on their own internal flights.
(4) Donors put the money in, but all the decisions are taken by the government … "[Rwanda's attitude is:] 'We appreciate the donors, but we are not donor dependent and we don't kowtow to them' – which means that, although they do depend on donor money, they don't act like it.
(5) As I write, the junta is preparing what it calls “re-education camps” for dissidents and journalists who continue to refuse to kowtow to them.
(6) There was no need to "kowtow to the Americans every time they wanted something done", said Broughton.
(7) Brian Beutler in Salon sketches what happens next : The logical leap (really, the assumption) everyone’s making is that Boehner will put the Senate plan on the floor before midnight, rather than kowtow to the dead-enders to preserve his speakership.
(8) The British government’s “kowtowing” to China on issues including human rights and Hong Kong’s quest for democracy will become increasingly craven following the UK’s departure from the European Union, the former colony’s last governor has warned.
(9) Of course politicians are intimidated: Blair and Brown kowtowed.
(10) Macartney offered to doff his hat, go down on one knee and even kiss the emperor's hand, but declined to kowtow unless a Chinese official agreed to kneel before a portrait of George III.
(11) I wonder, as he prostrated himself before the Chinese, whether he asked himself why he – and Britain – had ended up kowtowing to such a degree.
(12) In Washington, critics have accused the state department of being slow to spend the money and kowtowing to China.
(13) This kneejerk diplomatic kowtowing, embedded in the thinking of a cold war, 1980s world that no longer exists, looks increasingly anachronistic and warrants close scrutiny.
(14) His opponents accused him of kowtowing to the west, notably when he forced the delivery of Milosevic to the Hague.
(15) Part of the theatre of this whole [G20] thing will be about illustrating China’s arrival - the world comes to China’s door and doesn’t quite kowtow but does the next best thing.
(16) The diplomat made scathing remarks about his colleagues shunning democracy activists, "kowtowing" to the Castro regime and joining what he scornfully termed the "best friends forever" camp.
(17) He’s threatening Scotland once again, just as he did over the offshore windfarms, and we can’t continue kowtowing to this megalomaniac,” she said.
(18) We are still jumping through the same bureaucratic hoops and kowtowing to the same statisticians and their clipboards.
(19) Most recently, at least 245 lawyers and activists have been targeted in an unprecedented nationwide campaign over the last 100 days, and at least 30 are missing or still in police custody.” Kowtowing to China’s despots is morally wrong and makes no economic sense | Steve Hilton Read more Steve Hilton, Cameron’s former strategy chief in Downing Street, has also condemned the government’s “obsession” with China.
(20) Yes, Ohio is important in this election, but politicians shouldn't kowtow to their interests only.
Prostrate
Definition:
(a.) Lying at length, or with the body extended on the ground or other surface; stretched out; as, to sleep prostrate.
(a.) Lying at mercy, as a supplicant.
(a.) Lying in a humble, lowly, or suppliant posture.
(a.) Trailing on the ground; procumbent.
(v. t.) To lay fiat; to throw down; to level; to fell; as, to prostrate the body; to prostrate trees or plants.
(v. t.) to overthrow; to demolish; to destroy; to deprive of efficiency; to ruin; as, to prostrate a village; to prostrate a government; to prostrate law or justice.
(v. t.) To throw down, or cause to fall in humility or adoration; to cause to bow in humble reverence; used reflexively; as, he prostrated himself.
(v. t.) To cause to sink totally; to deprive of strength; to reduce; as, a person prostrated by fever.
Example Sentences:
(1) Symptoms include nausea, vomiting, dizziness, and prostration.
(2) The clinical course was characterized by severe prostration, persistently high spiking fever, and continuous development of enlarged lymph nodes.
(3) This rare esophageal rupture should be suspected in any chest injury patients, especially those characterized by extreme cyanosis, dyspnea, shock, and prostration incompatible with thoracic cage injury.
(4) In 352 patients affected with chronic lymphatic leukemia (CLL) the authors simultaneously detected a solid second tumour 22 times (= 6.22%) (6 cancers of the prostrate, 5 cancers of the skin, 4 cancers of the uterus, 2 cancers of the stomach, 2 cancers of the lung, one case of rectal and mamma cancer each and one case of eye sarcoma).
(5) The cranial tumor disappeared after irradiation but he died of metastases and general prostration.
(6) Severe hypotension, fluid retention, watery diarrhea, and central nervous deficits culminated in a profound prostration as the dose-limiting toxicity.
(7) The specificity, sedimentation coefficient on sucrose gradient, and sensitivity to sulfhydryl reagents and heat of this dihydrotestosterone-binding protein are typical of the cytoplasmic androgen receptor from other androgen target tissues such as prostrate.
(8) Complications were intractable fever, obstruction of the cannula, and prostration, resulting in interruption and discontinuity of this strategy within 11 weeks (in all cases).
(9) Scotland regained the lead after 53 minutes when they played on as a Malta player lay prostrate near the halfway line following a challenge by Hanley and Martin converted a low cross from eight yards.
(10) At variance in all controls, gastrointestinal symptoms were long lasting and associated with major prostration due to electrolyte and fluid loss.
(11) Though farmers comprise just 0.3% of the population of England and 1.4% of the rural population , ministers treat them and their lobbyists as an idol before which they must prostrate themselves.
(12) Administration of .2 ml of LHAS resulted in a significant reduction in the weights of the dorsolateral prostrate, coagulating glands, seminal vesicles, and Cowpers glands compared with intact controls (p. less than .05), and the weights were comparable with those in castrate controls.
(13) I have lots of friends in the Jewish community, and, yes, I can prostrate myself no further, it's just a stupid thing to say, and I didn't even … I accept I said it, and I am conscious that my speech isn't always as balanced as it should be."
(14) Five patients over the age of 55 years showed slight enlargement of the prostrate.
(15) A thousand came to his fringe event, prostrated themselves – a "hot" Tory in the era of austerity!
(16) By contrast, toxic doses of l-homoarginine, l-lysine, l-leucine and ammonium acetate caused dyspnoea, extreme prostration, and in some cases coma in 15-30min., and increased the concentration of ammonia of blood significantly and the concentration of glutamine of brain slightly.
(17) Difficult though it may be, we must prostrate ourselves in the face of public sentiment and continue to do so until there is genuine belief that we regret what has happened and the part we played in it".
(18) But as Theresa May prostrates Britain before her head-chopping friends in Saudi Arabia, her strategy is clear.
(19) Calves fed sporocysts of Sarcocystis isolated from the feces of dogs and coyotes became anorectic, lost weight, and became anemic and prostrate, and died.
(20) The disease was characterised by fever, ataxia, posterior paresis, circling and hyperaesthesia progressing to prostration.