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FDR threatened to appoint pliant judges until he got what he wanted.

In fact, Congress has been exceedingly pliant on these issues.

It fully expects that Google will now become more pliant the next time they request something.

Thanks to an utterly pliant national press, this obscurity has thrived for decades.

It seems like PayPal is trying to build hype while undermining its prime competitor by leaking documents to a pliant TechCrunch writer.

What factory wouldn't prefer a pliant, cheaper, healthier 16 year old to a demanding, hungrier, ornery adult?

> management prefers a pliant, docile, easily controlled workforceI am trying to understand why, and what the incentive is.

The problem is that so many older programmers haven't attended to their careers in a way to make themselves substantially more valuable than some pliant kid.

If you banned gum in NY, the first thing that would happen is a significant increase in gum on the sidewalks, gum sales would soar; then after a short rebellion, consumption would fall by half as the more pliant folded.

You understand of course that you're making the nice, pliant, local residents uncomfortable by demonstrating their limited perspective, causing them to question their own assumptions!

So many of the startups I've ridden to the end just sort of faded away - get called into a room and laid off, founders lie to the pliant Seattle tech press about how great things are, company fades away, nothing learned.

"...To put it in a terminology that harkens back to the more brutal age of ancient empires, the three grand imperatives of imperial geostrategy are to prevent collusion and maintain security dependence among the vassals, to keep tributaries pliant and protected, and to keep the barbarians from coming together.