The labour movement allowed itself to be run out of power tamely. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : a tame bear. ,That lion acts as tame as a house cat. ,a very tame party. ,They kept a tame scientist around. From Dictionary.com.
But can an American tamely submit to such a monopoly?. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864] Reference
"Are we to sit down tamely under such rudeness, then?". From Wordnik.com. [Mrs. Day's Daughters] Reference
Why have we so tamely limited ourselves to grasses and clover?. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Incorporated 39th Annual Report at Norris, Tenn. September 13-15 1948] Reference
Halleck, and watched me closely to see if I would tamely submit. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
"To submit so tamely to one man is not a very heroic proceeding.". From Wordnik.com. [The Motor Pirate] Reference
As he never wantonly gave so he never tamely brooked an indignity. From Wordnik.com. [A Biographical Sketch of the Life and Character of Joseph Charless In a Series of Letters to his Grandchildren] Reference
To say the act went off tamely would be simply admitting the truth. From Wordnik.com. [A Pirate of Parts] Reference
The insult was tamely endured, and shortly afterwards the ever-active. From Wordnik.com. [Stories from Thucydides] Reference
It was a time of joyous excitement which words can but tamely describe. From Wordnik.com. [Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue] Reference
The dinner progressed tamely enough until the dessert was on the table. From Wordnik.com. [The Scarlet Feather] Reference
He had no mind to surrender tamely now when victory was within his grasp. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Scout Automobilists or, Jack Danby in the Woods] Reference
The audience sat through it as tamely as if listening to a funeral sermon. From Wordnik.com. [A Pirate of Parts] Reference
"How can you so tamely bear the censures I pronounce against your country?". From Wordnik.com. [Irish Wit and Humor Anecdote Biography of Swift, Curran, O'Leary and O'Connell] Reference
You are "-- I was going to say" adorable, "but I finished tamely --" neither. From Wordnik.com. [The Rose of Old St. Louis] Reference
"Do you give yourself so tamely to a dangerous wild creature from the hills?". From Wordnik.com. [The Dragon Painter] Reference
She spoke in bursts of trembling anger, her words sounding tamely in her own ears. From Wordnik.com. [The Ashiel mystery A Detective Story] Reference
Afraid of shadows, they submit tamely to squads of dragoons, and permit them, without. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
But the member of a strong labor organization need not be cowed or tamely accept insult. From Wordnik.com. [Monopolies and the People] Reference
We have tamely submitted to seeing the weak, whom we have covenanted to protect, wronged. From Wordnik.com. [Theodore Roosevelt and His Times] Reference
But the high-spirited Spaniards were not the people to submit tamely to such an indignity. From Wordnik.com. [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference
Unable to escape they concealed themselves for awhile, and then tamely gave themselves up. From Wordnik.com. [American Prisoners of the Revolution] Reference
Holding three set points, he double-faulted, then Murray tamely patted a simple volley wide. From Wordnik.com. [Andy Murray exits US Open as Stanislas Wawrinka proves too strong] Reference
The thought of her beloved pin ornamenting the other girl's blouse was too bitter to be tamely borne. From Wordnik.com. [Marjorie Dean, High School Freshman] Reference
However younger he be, however stronger, he tamely suffers himself to be bound and sold by the winner. From Wordnik.com. [Tacitus on Germany] Reference
Marzook was taken, quite tamely, when he returned to the United States after an absence of several months. From Wordnik.com. [Most Wanted] Reference
Signor Collenso's classic -- and it was well rendered -- was tamely received, but when he treated his auditors to. From Wordnik.com. [A Pirate of Parts] Reference
It was new to Laski to endure tamely the misconstruction of his motives, or the least impeachment of his veracity. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845.] Reference
"So you think I'd consent to stay out here tamely, while you two were having a regular circus in there?" he remarked. From Wordnik.com. [The Saddle Boys in the Grand Canyon or The Hermit of the Cave] Reference
Occasionally we found them tamely submitting to be taken, on account of their sufferings for want of food and clothing. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences] Reference
This was a precedent for the whole campaign, and it ill-suited the fiery temper of Lord George Murray to brook it tamely. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III.] Reference
We leave Pernambuco, with a firm persuasion that this part of Brazil at least will never again tamely submit to Portugal. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823] Reference
Have they tamely submitted to have you disappear without raising an outcry that would resound throughout the whole kingdom?. From Wordnik.com. [Chinese Folk-Lore Tales] Reference
Mr. Temple liked no man to believe he was to be tamely cheated, and was at first disposed to accede to Juliet's suggestion. From Wordnik.com. [Hubert's Wife A Story for You] Reference
Those who rebel against oppression and wrong are not to be given any relief -- that would be unjust to those who tamely submit. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 4, 1919] Reference
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