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Your Chinese colleague speaks softly in a meeting; is that cultural deference or introversion?
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Japan’s players, initially reverential to the point of deference in Zico’s presence, came out of their shells.
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Those experiences appear to have reinforced the importance of humility inside the squad, even as outside expectations continue to grow.
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Pls take manhood seriously, approach it with care, responsibility, character, dignity, humility and make room for laughter.
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And Jesus' answer is one takes it through meekness, peacemaking, humility, love, etc.
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Such meekness is understandable from him.
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The women had been close friends while studying for their doctorates some years earlier, but Catherine has since grown resentful of Leonora’s career, and dismissive of women whose scholarly ambitions come before marital subservience.
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These young ladies are primed for a life of modesty and subservience to their husbands and the future fathers of their children.
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The guards outside the Red Keep surrender, but inside – where the dragons cannot go – is another matter, and the two fight their way to the throne room, where a large contingent of men-at-arms and knights awaits, gloating.
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Liberty, freedom, equality and revolution are the focus of an innovative exhibit at the American Revolution Museum at Yorktown, Virginia, on the site where the struggle for independence effectively ended with British surrender of October 19, 1781.
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Of course, all of this convenient acquiescence will sound familiar in the United States, where our own Congress and Department of Justice have been nothing if not servile to a brazenly corrupt executive.
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Writing in the early 1890s, Nadar deployed Balzac’s reported initial mistrust and later acquiescence to the daguerreotype as an allegory of larger significance for understanding the history of invention.
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Carlson-Wee introduces himself to Wood with the sweet docility of a young boy meeting his hero.
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The same goes for docility, often characterized as a near neighbor of meekness.
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Though the national independence be blurred by the servility of individuals, though freedom and equality have been proclaimed only to leave room for a monstrous display of slave-dealing and slave-keeping .
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