Citations:bend the knee

Verb: "(idiomatic, by extension) to show undue deference, obedience, or support for someone or something"

 * 2014, John Bootsma, quoted in Peach Arch News (White Rock, BC), 28 October 2014, page 7:
 * Not 'everyone' agrees with Surrey school board's bending the knee to the homosexual 'community.'
 * 2015, Rev. Robert Plaisted, "Shrinking churches" (letter to the editor), The Bridgton News (Bridgton, MA), 28 May 2015, page 7D:
 * Jesus called us to "preach good news to the poor," but we've ignored the poor and bent the knee to wealth and power, treating corrupt, "trickle-down" economics as though it were God's word.
 * 2018, Malcolm Strachan, "Remember Minnis' words then compare them with his new reality", The Tribune (Bahamas), 22 October 2018, page 8:
 * Irrefutably, many among us were insulted as the government bent the knee to Disney and acquiesced to their demands.
 * 2022, Maureen Dowd, "The Marjorie Taylor Greene-ing of America", Falls Church News-Press (Falls Church, VA), 10 November - 16 November 2022, page 18:
 * Much to our national shame, it looks like these over-the-top and way, way, way out of the mainstream Republicans — and the formerly normie and now creepy Republicans who have bent the knee to the wackos out of political expediency — are going to be running the House, maybe the Senate and certainly some states, perhaps even some that Joe Biden won two years ago.
 * 2022, "Log Cabin goes all-in on MAGA", Bay Area Reporter, 22 December -28 December 2022, page 13:
 * Sadly, bending the knee to anti-LGBTQ politicians seems to be about the only thing Log Cabin knows how to do.
 * 2024, Zach Ajluni, "The GOP needs to break up with DJT", The Michigan Daily (The University of Michigan), 20 March 2024, page 9:
 * Instead of providing a solution to an issue many claim to be the greatest threat facing America, Republicans bent the knee to the former president [Donald Trump] and did his bidding.
 * 2022, Maureen Dowd, "The Marjorie Taylor Greene-ing of America", Falls Church News-Press (Falls Church, VA), 10 November - 16 November 2022, page 18:
 * Much to our national shame, it looks like these over-the-top and way, way, way out of the mainstream Republicans — and the formerly normie and now creepy Republicans who have bent the knee to the wackos out of political expediency — are going to be running the House, maybe the Senate and certainly some states, perhaps even some that Joe Biden won two years ago.
 * 2022, "Log Cabin goes all-in on MAGA", Bay Area Reporter, 22 December -28 December 2022, page 13:
 * Sadly, bending the knee to anti-LGBTQ politicians seems to be about the only thing Log Cabin knows how to do.
 * 2024, Zach Ajluni, "The GOP needs to break up with DJT", The Michigan Daily (The University of Michigan), 20 March 2024, page 9:
 * Instead of providing a solution to an issue many claim to be the greatest threat facing America, Republicans bent the knee to the former president [Donald Trump] and did his bidding.