(a.) Ready to obey; reverent; differential; also, servilely submissive.
Example Sentences:
(1) Kim can be expected to continue to pay obeisance to North Korea’s original governing concept of juche , self-reliance.
(2) He used to sit in the bath shrinking his jeans.” On both sides of the Atlantic, politicians would now offer obeisance to pop stars.
(3) Many guests were the Queen's "kissing cousins", which happily dispensed with protocol over who should pay obeisance to whom.
(4) It’s a way for them to pay obeisance to the NRA without changing the world as it is.” Texas senator John Cornyn, the author of the Republican alternative to the FBI watch list bill, took issue with Schumer’s characterization, deeming it “incredibly ignorant”.
(5) Blair’s obeisance to corporate power enabled the vicious and destructive policies the coalition now pursues .
(6) Fox Business Network has been spared having to abide by the Ginsberg demands, partly perhaps because of the strong obeisance shown by senior Republicans towards Roger Ailes, the chairman and CEO of Fox News and Fox Business Network.
(7) The industry makes obeisances to the ideals of “diversity” and “representation”, but many at the sharp end of abuse argue that it has so far done little to help them or to learn from their experiences.
(8) Both Blair and Brown abased themselves by being so obeisant to the Australian, sorry, American, godfather; but Brown, under the beneficent, and crucial, influence of Ed Balls, resisted the siren voices calling upon him to sign up for the single currency quite independently of Murdoch's propaganda.
(9) This obeisance to a symbol has all but destroyed the US anti-war movement – Obama's singular achievement.
(10) Not yet, though it has its rituals – attendees of the conferences check their cynicism in at the door; standing ovations at TED seem, at times, like mandatory acts of obeisance rather than spontaneous moments of appreciation – and it's not far off De Botton's description of the Catholic church: "collaborative, multinational, branded and highly disciplined".
(11) And note, more lightly, with due obeisance to the cab-rank principle, that Hunt's QC, whose arguments were said by the judge to have a "too-narrow view of the public interest", was Hugh Tomlinson, chairman and silkiest silk of Hacked Off .
Respectful
Definition:
(a.) Marked or characterized by respect; as, respectful deportment.
Example Sentences:
(1) The absolute recoveries of diazepam, nordazepam and flurazepam in human milk were 84, 86 and 92% and in human plasma 97, 89 and 94%, respectively.
(2) Between 25 and 40 degrees C, the thermal dependencies of VR and f were approximately constant (Q10's of 1.31 and 1.36 got VR and f, respectively).
(3) Urinary ANF immunoreactivity was significantly enhanced by candoxatril in both groups (P less than 0.05 and P less than 0.01 in groups 1 and 2, respectively), with a more pronounced effect evident at the higher dose (P less than 0.01).
(4) Maximum increases in portal plasma secretin concentrations of 143, 146 and 190% and maximum increases in VIP of 116, 155 and 147% after, respectively, intraduodenal 0.1 M NaHCO3, 0.1 M Na2CO3, and 0.025 M NaOH were found.
(5) No differences between the two substances were observed with respect to side effects and general tolerability.
(6) Although Jeggo's Chinese hamster ovary cells were more responsive to mAMSA, novo still abrogated mAMSA toxicity in the mutant cells as well as in the parental Chinese hamster ovary cells 2,4-Dinitrophenol acted similarly to novo with respect to mAMSA killing, but neither compound reduced the ATP content of V79 cells.
(7) The results demonstrated that K2PtCl4 was bound to a greater degree than CDDP in this system with 3-5 and 1-2 platinum atoms respectively, bound per transferrin molecule.
(8) We conclude that only one of the alleles was amplified and that either allele could be amplified with respect to both the SphI and PvuII polymorphisms.
(9) Contact angles of Silafocon A and PMMA were relatively uninfluenced by front surface radii between 7.7 and 8.85 and 7.3 to 8.8 mm, respectively.
(10) Four cytotoxic antibiotics, bikaverin, duclauxine, PSX-1 and vermiculine, were examined with respect to their interference with glycolysis and respiration and their possible ionophoric or cytolytic activity.
(11) The results show that endolymph is extremely inhomogenous with respect to calcium potentials.
(12) These effects are similar to those reported for AVP and phorbol esters, activators of protein kinase C. Forskolin and isoproterenol, which induce cAMP accumulation, activated extractable topoisomerase II (maximum 5-15 min after treatment), but not topoisomerase I. Permeable cyclic nucleotide analogs dBcAMP and 8BrcGMP selectively activated extractable topoisomerase II and topoisomerase I activities, respectively.
(13) The ORF2 showed homology with the Escherichia coli regulatory gene ompR, and ORF4 showed homology with E. coli and Rhizobium meliloti regulatory genes fnr and fixK, respectively.
(14) At the fepB operator, a 31 base-pair Fur-protected region was identified, corresponding to positions -19 to +12 with respect to the transcriptional start site.
(15) The overall recoveries of activated ER following chromatography on DEAE-cellulose were significantly lower than the recoveries of the nonactivated ER, 71 and 85%, respectively.
(16) MAF-G activity was inhibited by mitomycin C and colchicine, which inhibit DNA synthesis and mitosis, respectively, but not by 2-deoxy-D-glucose, an inhibitor of glucose metabolism.
(17) The criticism over the downgrading of the leader of the Lords was led by Lord Forsyth of Drumlean, a former Scotland secretary, who is a respected figure on the right.
(18) In patients with less favourable disease status the 2-year overall and DFS were 73% and 50% respectively.
(19) This exploratory survey of 100 patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) was conducted (1) to learn about the types and frequencies of disability law-related problems encountered as a result of having RA, and (2) to assess the respective relationships between the number of disability law-related problems reported and the patients' sociodemographic and RA disease characteristics.
(20) Statistically significant differences were found mainly in the randomized trial, where during the first and second years, respectively, adenoidectomy subjects had 47% and 37% less time with otitis media than control subjects and 28% and 35% fewer suppurative (acute) episodes than control subjects.