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At home he had dealt pliably and efficiently with the recalcitrant Socialist opposition, promoted an "income-dou bling" plan that gave Japan the world's highest growth rate and the highest standard of living in its history.

From Time Magazine Archive

In addition to Michelangelo, there were lesser but still extraordinary sculptors waiting pliably at Cosimo's beck and call.

From Time Magazine Archive

The coconut palms rose straight to heaven, bending pliably to the western breeze; their heads tapped gently against each other and a murmur of secrets sighed overhead.

From Caybigan by Hopper, James

Never was flesh so pliably counterfeited in stone as in this masterpiece.

From A Visit to the Holy Land, Egypt, and Italy by Dulcken, H. W. (Henry William)