kowtowing

Next, is kowtowing, accommodating and acquiescing to the whims and ego of that aging superstar or find yourself gone before your tenure is up.

Dating back more than a decade, Graham has been criticized by South Carolina conservatives who have accused him of kowtowing to Democrats on issues from immigration and bank bailouts to gun restrictions and climate change.

At the time, critics accused Wheeler—who served under former President Donald Trump—of kowtowing to the chemical industry, which views animal testing as time consuming and expensive.

Soon after that, however, he must have concluded that his path to challenging Donald Trump for the GOP presidential nomination involved kowtowing to the far right wing.

Political pressures, combined with the Big 12 kowtowing to Bevo, saved the league and kept the surprisingly assertive Pac-12 at bay.