The apparently sublime power of the volcano was largely the result of an initially supine reaction.
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Even the supine French court sensed that something nasty was happening in Paris in the 1780s.
Antigua's financial regulator has lived down to its reputation for being supine even by Caribbean standards.
In fact, such supine American behavior simply emboldens the opponents of structural reform in the old Soviet Union.
As he moves forward, no doubt Ahmadinejad takes heart from the supine US response to North Korea's July 4 missile launches.
And at the slightest hint of pressure, Telmex has won injunctions from the country's supine courts to protect its privileged position.
Lord Puttnam feared that regulators and legislators in Europe and the UK would "remain supine and simply wave this acquisition through".
Tell me is there anything more supine on this fair earth than a party conference audience rising to deliver a standing ovation?
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That supine stance led to a radical rethinking of their prime-time lineup.
We also need to help opposition groups in Iran far more than our supine, head-in-the-sand State Department has as yet allowed us to do.
Try this thought experiment: Suppose the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell to 5000 and stayed there, supine and sick with Asian flu, for several years.
In fact America's government has been anything but supine of late.
"Nobody wants a supine, fully deferential BBC - but we do need to see that when the BBC says something, it isn't just recycling gossip, " he said.
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Private-sector investors have been a remarkably supine breed, sitting quietly while they were generally the losers as the banks shared the spoils of apparent growth between employees and owners.
One is that examining magistrates regularly leak their findings to the press, which has little notion of the concept of sub judice, in order to outflank any attempts by politically supine prosecutors to quash an investigation.
When angry road hauliers have blocked motorways and roads in central London, the police have simply stood by and watched exactly the kind of supine reaction that the British were rightly castigating the French police for last week.
His cause has become a rallying-point for those fed up with Dr Mahathir's increasingly autocratic ways, and with the supine obeisance of his colleagues, most of whom seemed ready to believe the worst of Mr Anwar even before they had heard any evidence.
The home secretary at the time, Jim Callaghan, told Parliament how Britain faced a "pharmaceutical revolution" which presented such dangers that if the country was "supine in the face of them" it would quickly lead to "grave dangers to the whole structure of our society".
Given Team Obama's supine behavior in the face of deliberate and demeaning provocations by the North Korean and Burmese regimes, what it calls "the elected president of Iran" - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad - will doubtless seek to add to the ignominy of American diplomatic approaches aimed at freeing the latest American captives, fostering improved ties, ending the Iranian nuclear program, etc.
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