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• s  capable of being influenced or formed
  a pliant nature
• s  capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out
  pliant molten glass
• s  able to adjust readily to different conditions
• s  capable of being bent or flexed or twisted without breaking
  a pliant young tree

• In the most pliant forms of nature, in very irregular geometry, he sees the future.
• But at the same time they suggest unmistakably the pliant forms of nature#151;an eye, a torso, a bird in flight#151;that inspire him.
• In 1992, when Chinese Premier Li Peng submitted a proposal for the dam to China's normally pliant parliament, the National People's Congress, it ran into serious opposition and .

• plastic
• ductile
• malleable
• pliable
• tensile
• tractile
• elastic
• flexible
• bendable
• waxy

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• IPO Activity Revives as Buyout Firms Hit the Market’s Bid
  It’s shark week on the Discovery Channel, but it's also shark week on Wall Street. In fact, the sharks have been feeding there for much of the year, as buyout artists take advantage of buoyant stock indexes and pliant credit … Continue reading ?
  Aug. 8, 2013 - Michael Santoli via Yahoo! Finance

Quotes

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• Asif Ali Zardari in KTAR.com
  Zardari, who spent years in jail on corruption charges without being convicted, said his party's leadership had "suffered a great deal in the past at the hands of pliant judges."
• Jeremy Scahill in AlterNet
  Our decision rests on the belief that the apartheid system was based on the white South African minority striving to secure a cheap and pliant workforce to reap the benefits of the country's vast natural resources, in particular its mineral... Zwelinzima Vavi http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zwelinzima_Vavi&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNFPfIX1xALB4cV7t7dKhVTKEUrX4w Times LIVE http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.timeslive.co.za/business/article223454.ece&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNETinqT4Wqj69W4Cm5CB6TpsADacQ Dec 7, 2009 75281 101618 pliant The Nation's Jeremy Scahill called the film this generation's Dr. Strangelove and a powerful, visionary response to the cheerleading culture of the corporate media and a pliant Hollywood afraid of its own shadow."