For additional structure or protection, pliant skeletons may be supported by rigid skeletons. Binding two pliant objects skillfully or permanently via twisting. Desiring "a more pliant president than Adams," Hamilton maneuvered to tip the election to Pinckney. And Ann Todd, the pliant British actress, is attractively anguished as his wife. His body seems relaxed, even pliant. They are aided in climbing with their black, pliant footpads with numerous ridges. One fan magazine writer described Alice as "pliant clay" or easily manipulated on screen. Structural frame was achieved with wooden or pliant materials. Backing their faction in the country a pliant government was soon in place. Spain, relieved to be ending a financially-ruinous war, was quite pliant in the negotiations. Dissidents were usually replaced by hardliners; sometimes twice if the replacement was not pliant. Wu uses young elm trees, which he says are pliant and do not break easily. The Patriarch Germanos I resigned, to be replaced by the more pliant Anastasios.