Google doesn't just kowtow to iPhone users -- it builds products to be amazing on iPhone.

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This forced the committee barons to kowtow, seeking rank-and-file votes to stay in power.

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Ecclestone -- never one to kowtow to convention -- may have missed the Shia protesters carrying toy machine guns and wearing motor racing overalls.

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From the Chinese: chow-main, chop-suey, stir-fry, ketchup, flophouse, kowtow and tycoon.

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Not so long ago entrepreneurs would kowtow to venture capitalists for enough money to get a product launched and then beg for more to keep going.

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Instead of being dismissed as self-serving hucksters who warp the truth and kowtow to clients, publicists are getting too much respect and some don't know how to handle it.

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"It's a very important part of this equation that a few survivors exist in this peculiar relationship with government, having to kowtow to government, make relationships with regulators, " says Mr. Singer.

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I've written about technology for almost my entire adult life, and I love knowing how it works, but I won't kowtow to it or go through unnatural contortions to induce it to perform some task.

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Accordingly, hospitals kowtow to Press Ganey.

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