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Those factors, however, don’t take away from the starch in the senator’s spine or her willingness to stand up while so many others in her party cower in submission.

“No, you definitely did not,” I said, heaving while cowering from my Ivy League prince.

Leaders don’t cower in fear of ignorant extremists, no matter how many of them there are.

The virus has overcome the Republicans, laid low the Democrats who seemingly have no answer to Trump other than to cower before him and let him have his way.

Officers were caught out and Christmas shoppers were forced to cower for cover in city centre shops when huge groups of fans chased and fought each other in chaotic scenes in Glasgow in December.