And they were quite overweight and wearing sweatpants and quite docile looking.

His Duma is much like the Duma of Nicholas II, docile and acquiescent.

Finally, regulators, too, have been rendered docile in the face of the megabanks CEOs.

But a call from Prime Minister Persson was enough to render the Conservative party leader Fredrik Reinfeldt docile.

Such arguments are still heard but, increasingly, only from those employed by global megabanks, including their lawyers, consultants, and docile economists.

This meager effort, however, is an insufficient response by Europe s democracies to the full panoply of Lukashenka s dictatorship his docile courts, brutal jails, and corrupt police.

The less fortunate classes are docile, content to accept their subservient roles and satisfied with the social welfare, no matter how skimpy, provided by their betters.

In doing so, he neglected to focus on the structural problems that propelled a docile society to pour into the streets two and a half years ago to bring down his predecessor, Hosni Mubarak.

The colonial legacy also helps account for the relatively docile nature of Muslims in sub Saharan Africa. The colonial powers arbitrary demarcation of borders lumped together in one state diverse ethnic groups which may have been historical antagonists.