Lew Cheney, becoming convinced of the ultimate failure of his project, in order to curry favor with his master, and avoid the consequences which he foresaw would follow, deliberately determined to sacrifice all his companions.
Obviously, they can do something about it for eight million reasons, one of which is like the president of El Salvador, who's taking these detainees is doing it to curry favor.
And as you said, Tim Cook's personal efforts to curry favor with the Trump administration clearly did not yield the outcomes that he or investors would have wanted or expected.
Ptolemy was trying to curry favor with Caesar by killing his enemy, but Caesar was mad in that the-only-person-who-gets-to-tease-my-little-brother-is-me kind of way, except with murder instead of teasing.
So how much do you think this is about, you know, companies wanting to curry favor with the current administration or avoid public backlash from the right wing?
Other people would say so, and would allege that he was currying favor with Bulstrode for the sake of making himself important and getting on in the world.
It was of course the ancient response of the mendicant, through whom the charitable curry favor in the sight of the gods, but the man had something more.
I mean, his Wall Street Journal libertarianism for the rich impulses simmered quietly until he began to realize he needed to curry favor with the current administration.