A newly docile Haydée brought no more guests to the house.

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

Mr. Campbell (Ireland) I have been told that I should make this statement from the rostrum, and since I m a docile person and also since I m sitting very close to the rostrum

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. Are a few hours of radio broadcasting really all Europe and the democratic west can muster?

In any case, the government, according to the largest banks CEOs, could not possibly impose a cap on their assets size, because to do so would undermine the productivity and competitiveness of the US economy. Such arguments are still heard but, increasingly, only from those employed by global megabanks, including their lawyers, consultants, and docile economists.

Even harder to gauge was what it would take for the disaffected to say enough is enough and begin challenging their regime openly, defiantly, and in concert. If a sufficient number of Arabs reached that threshold at the right time, the long docile Arab street would explode in anger, with each group of new protesters encouraging more to join in, giving people elsewhere in the Arab world the courage to initiate protests of their own.

North Koreans have suffered coercion for a long time, and although they are brainwashed to be docile and loyal to Kim s dynasty, you just cannot imagine how they will remain at the beck and call of Kim Jong un, who has no credentials, military or otherwise, to rule. Given its increasingly isolated international position in Asia, if North Korea s internal conflicts become acute, China may find it difficult to behave toward Kim Jong un with anything but cold and anxiety ridden indifference.