be supine

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So if Congress promises to be supine, what of the supreme court, surely the ultimate restraint?

From The Guardian • Nov. 10, 2016

And in the middle, so laid-back as to be supine, was Dino -- on the cutting edge of lumpen-American mediocrity.

From Time Magazine Archive

To get along with the general," says one lieutenant, "you don't have to be supine.

From Time Magazine Archive

They were all too much inclined to be supine, to be content with mere religious routine. 

From The Religious Life of London by Ritchie, J. Ewing (James Ewing)

Do not be supine; do not yield yourself to the forces; they are there to call out your energies by opposition and you must not sink down on the floor of the chariot.

From Avatâras Four lectures delivered at the twenty-fourth anniversary meeting of the Theosophical Society at Adyar, Madras, December, 1899 by Besant, Annie Wood