Broadway is one of the sub-lessees that had to get on bended knee.

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The fact that as they stand at the precipice of such a great triumph, Hamas's leaders felt it necessary to come on bended knee to Nasrallah demonstrates Hizbullah's power.

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So when Apple puts out a mediocre mapping app, that disappoints me and everyone else, then Tim Cook has to get down on bended knee and apologize to me, and promise never ever to do that again.

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After a series of what-would you-do-if questions, replete with game-show invoking bells and whistles, users are matched with an ideal mate avatar and corresponding Tacori engagement ring suggestion (mine was ivy-leaguer Jack Calloway on bended knee with a square-cut diamond solitaire).

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While she was at pains in an interview with Kimberly Blanton at the Squared Away blog to point out that women might well be waiting to permanently settle down till they are in a better economic position, she also noted that even today, men are more likely to be the ones getting down on bended knee.

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