Sentences with phrase «resisted bowing down»

He resisted bowing down to the Japanese emperor, and suffered six years of imprisonment and cruel treatment.

It's about having the mental and spiritual forti.tude to resist bowing down to those who mock you and continue to observe your beliefs because you know them to be right.

Not exact matches

One senses the conspiracy maniac champing at the bit in the stray shot across the bow at how we're going to avenge this blow against our country (by taking down a Middle Eastern nation because its despot once tried to kill our current leader's daddy, apparently), or in recycled footage of Bush Jr. jetting across the country, pausing long enough at the stray landing strip to deliver robot platitudes and promises of vengeance — yet Stone resists politicizing the events of 9/11 by presenting what can most delicately be described as an entirely unexceptional film about completely familiar events.

Think about it, they are so huge in the book - world, that Amazon couldn't resist selling books they think are overpriced, and Apple bowed down before them like Zod.