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- s lying face upward
- s offering no resistance
No other colony showed such supine, selfish helplessness in allowing her own border citizens to be mercilessly harried"- Theodore Roosevelt
- The movie begins in typical teen horror gross-out fashion, with the two protagonists in biology class, hunched over the slit belly of a supine frog.
- But the fact that the normally supine federal government did the job for them made the news even sweeter.
- But the French would have to learn that they had less to fear from a producing Germany than from a supine Germany which would cause the rest of Europe to slide into economic chaos.