| An emaciated, rake of a lackey with crowns on his lapels kept ushering supplicants and victims into the Secretary's panelled office. |
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| When the police lodged a case against him recently, he and his supplicants reacted in the customary manner. |
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| The Buddhist Guan Yin provided her worldly supplicants with the karma of reproductivity and bore constant witness to their agony. |
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| In them, the supplicants invoke God as their light, their water, their warrior, their scourge, their buckler, their rod, and their staff. |
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| In the pre-dawn chill, and in the midday heat, hundreds of mainly poor supplicants line up to deliver their petitions. |
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| But we are not even successful supplicants, for they do not listen to us, and nothing changes. |
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| Culturally, it is hard for the managers to turn the supplicants away, especially if they come from the same village, clan or tribe. |
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| Small and medium-sized enterprises are not supplicants but the core of our European economy. |
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| As long as we see ourselves and allow others to see us as outsiders, supplicants and victims, we will remain exactly that. |
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| Voluntary organizations, for their part, no longer see themselves as supplicants seeking handouts. |
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| In fact the African countries which were formerly supplicants are now being wooed themselves. |
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| Prime Minister Simeon Saxe-Coburg this week joined the succession of supplicants in a visit to Denmark for meetings with Rassmussen and other Danish leaders. |
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| And especially not to listen to the chorus of middle class pressure groups and supplicants who clamour for their own priorities to be espoused unexamined. |
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| Are the non-science people viewed as partners or as supplicants? |
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| And even then, sometimes, enough cash to pay off the appropriate official. Wherever you find politicians in Pakistan and India, you will find swarms of supplicants. |
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| She has embarked on a rural tour and broken with tradition by visiting potential allies to ask them to join a coalition, instead of waiting for supplicants. |
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| Even if the Court narrows the scope of honest-services fraud when it issues its ruling, probably next year, that may only lead to reduced sentences or perhaps retrials for the two supplicants. |
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| Between the Liberals selecting the most right wing leader in their party's history and the Tories now the willing supplicants of the regressive conservatives, where are Canadians to look for truly progressive leadership? |
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| Nowadays, food prices are rising continuously but, whilst large enterprises benefit from this and harvest handsome profit margins, simple farmers are pushed increasingly into the role of supplicants. |
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| Landowners work to strengthen development restrictions while politicians cash in on their ability, through selective development approval, to grant fortunate supplicants a windfall. |
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| It undermines the public good and the human dignity of people who are treated as clients or supplicants who may or may not be deemed worthy of charity, rather than as citizens. |
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| Supplicants burn paper money and joss sticks, and pray for good fortune to the temple deity, Tua Pek Kong. |
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| Before this date, the Covenanters were usually referred to as Supplicants, but from about this time the former designation began to prevail. |
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