"The press here is so cowed, it's disgusting, " says a top U.S. official in Moscow.
Businessmen, less cowed than in the past, want him to move faster with liberalising the economy.
One small carp: Mayo, like all other institutions, has been cowed by its lawyers.
Not cowed by the Formby fiasco, he applied to play in the 1977 qualifying tournament.
And he went on to warn his opponents that he would not be easily cowed.
With scores of generals jailed on coup-plotting charges the army has been cowed into silence.
Mr Meles cowed his smaller neighbour and persuaded the world to see it as a rogue state.
Venezuela's once pugnacious private sector, which has backed several failed attempts to remove the president, now looks cowed.
Until two years ago, the telephone regulator Cofetel was so cowed by Telmex it was jokingly called Cofetelmex.
Like today, that crisis featured public profligacy, shifting economic power in the world and a cowed Federal Reserve.
It is this commitment to intervene without limit that has cowed speculators hoping to profit from bond-market distress.
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He seemed to be quite cowed, and turning tail, went back towards the stables, which fortunately were open.
Maybe they were cowed by Bill Ackman and Steven Roth, the two activists.
Security measures in Kashgar hardly suggest a preoccupation with terrorism, but rather an attempt to keep the population cowed.
Saddam's long-cowed officer corps and intelligence apparatchiks would rise up and destroy him.
Her aunt, for example, once fond of colorful clothes and jewelry, was cowed.
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But the Irish media, cowed by the country's ferocious libel laws, investigated half-heartedly.
Beverly Lowry evokes the secrecy imposed by a gaunt, cowed mother unable to protect her children from their father.
He presented the Democratic establishment as Mr Bush's moll a cowed co-dependant making compromise after compromise on taxes and Iraq.
Sir Jeremy's successor, Genista McIntosh, was left alone to deal with an interventionist board and a cowed and fragmented management.
Business has been cowed into submission and it would take a lot of standing up in defense to change that situation.
Not that Indonesia is likely to be cowed, since with 200m people it is easily the biggest member of the club.
Pro-European Tories like Michael Heseltine and Sir Edward Heath are not fighting for party position and will therefore not be cowed.
Benefits for sick and disabled people (24% of the budget) are ripe for reform, but ministers have been cowed by lobbying.
Seth removed the instrument from its case, raised his bow, and began to play, beautifully, until the bullies were cowed into silence.
In the old days the owner-pilot was easily cowed by the manufacturer.
Cowed by the twin forces of the Red-Green alliance, successive governments have tried to solve the problem by buying off the Arabs.
The time has come for the majority of American Jews and Israelis to stop being cowed and confused by their destructive manipulations.
Instead a stress on Boston's spirit, with a few jokes thrown in, and an insistence that America cannot be, will not, be cowed.
And though the ruling is a blow to the government, it is hardly likely to be cowed in its pursuit of white-collar criminals.
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