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Перевод: pliant

[прилагательное]
гибкий; мягкий; податливый; уступчивый

Тезаурус:

1. It was the policy of Henry III, moreover, to dislodge ecclesiastical and lay magnates from the great offices of state, and to replace them by Household officials who would make the central administration a more pliant instrument of his will.
2. Pliant editors were rewarded with knighthoods, and the Sun's owner, Rupert Murdoch, was granted a licence to strike at the BBC by establishing the first satellite station, Sky TV.
3. Nagy says Russia's new young men are rebelling against what has become their characteristic style: muscular, virile men and pliant, slightly flowery women.
4. But if they are, Mr Gorbachev's policy of trying to find a pliant press that people trust will also have failed.
5. Being tall, straight and pliant it was much in demand for ship masts, "therefore the legislature thought proper to pass a law for the preservation and increase of these trees in America".
6. His bluff style, orchestration of a pliant group of lobby correspondents and capacity to communicate with the Prime Minister almost telepathically, justified the tag "the deputy Prime Minister".
7. Mr Gorbachev has three instruments that, he hopes, will make the press more pliant while falling short of complete censorship.
8. "She set higher store by emotional security" than her sister, "and thought she would find it with a man soft-hearted and caring and pliant, far removed, as she thought, from father's toughness and uncontrollability."
9. The Luttrell Psalter of 1338 illustrates a watermill complete with eel traps which look very much as if they have been made out of pliant willow stems.
10. Like Mr Benn, Mrs Thatcher asserts national sovereignty and democratic accountability though in reality a determined prime minister with a pliant majority at Westminster has more unfettered power than in most Community countries.
11. Countless times, before Longines took up the electronic timing of practice, Ferrari had managed to surprise every one else's chronometers with their "times": they had a rabid press and rabid fans behind them and the Monza authorities, besides being among the least efficient on the circuit, were also the most pliant.
12. To form round Cheese-cakes of the pliant Dough;
13. Gothic architecture was the most pliant of styles, which makes it particularly susceptible to the whims of an architect.