Word: pliantly
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...pliant, indecisive playboy who preferred the French Riviera to Beirut, though that was not his reputation in Lebanon. However, White House aides noted approvingly last week that Gemayel had come to his meeting with President Reagan well prepared, with his points outlined on index cards. Said a senior State Department official: "He knows what he wants, he knows he needs help and he is under
...forced to concede that despite the state's best efforts, "the church is very much alive." Western observers estimate that there are still 50 million church members, making Russian Orthodoxy one of the world's largest religious communities. As the report's author observes, even pliant church leaders have "always held and always will hold positions alien to Marxism." Perhaps the most telling indication of the failure of Soviet religious restrictions comes in a statistical detail. The Patriarchate annually prints and distributes over 1 million "garlands and prayers," paper strips inscribed with religious pictures and text that...
...during a visit to the Sotto il Monte birthplace of Pope John XXIII. Reaffirming a church statement calling for abortion laws "to be overcome with all legitimate means," he repeated his view that "procured abortion is the killing of an innocent creature. No one can have an attitude of pliant consent or passivity in the face of abortion...
...party would not ask for more than the four key ministries it already has. Instead, the F.D.P. planned to exert more influence in policymaking, and thus strengthen Schmidt's hand in resisting the demands of radicals in his own party for more socialist welfare programs and a more pliant stance toward Moscow...
...banks were not as pliant with the new mayor. Kucinich opposed tax abatements and the sale of the city's most valuable remaining asset, the publicly owned electric company...