The bureaucracy fell apart, since officials preferred sycophancy, when anyone could be whisked away to prison for even the whiff of disobeying his whims.
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During the Ceauescu era, the priests of the Orthodox Church not only complied with the requests of the government, but they also showed sycophancy.
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Spence also tells of brave scholars who, seeing nothing but sycophancy and mendacity around them, dared to criticize the emperor's handling of the case.
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"I'm a real friend of America who doesn't happen to confuse friendship with sycophancy, " he said in an interview.
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A rapt Leslie Stahl watched while he gave them notes on their work, and she contributed to the heavy fog of sycophancy that quickly filled the room.
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Hu Jintao and his pals aren't leaders but cautious followers, and their records suggest that they excel only at sycophancy toward their predecessors in power.
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Critics said this was a result of what they called his sycophancy, but the move was more widely seen as an attempt to calm Sikh militancy in Punjab.
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Of course the aide's remarks were silly _ but they gave us an indication of the level of sycophancy that Bush apparently believes to be his due.
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When those sands did begin to shift, then another form of sycophancy took hold, as investors rushed for the exits like a mindless herd of thoughtless cattle.
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This inflation of obsequiousness seems akin to the euphemism treadmill-a " sycophancy treadmill " perhaps ? talk ) 15 : 05, 23 November 2009 ( UTC)
