I don't want to see that movie, but I guess I'll have to acquiesce this time. From LearnThat.org.
But if we again acquiesce we will be reduced to sad and pathetic footnotes in our accelerating transformation from a democracy to a totalitarian corporate state. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Government for Sale] Reference
Off the top of my head, "acquiesce" is pretty cool. From Wordnik.com. [questions questions too many questions] Reference
She not only used "acquiesce" in a song way before Noel Gallagher made such a fanfare of doing so, but deployed it perfectly. From Wordnik.com. [Word Magazine -] Reference
The discarded wife must acquiesce to "divine justice.". From Wordnik.com. [The Necessity of Atheism] Reference
With a few words more I got him to acquiesce in the amended plan. From Wordnik.com. [A Sheaf of Corn] Reference
Nor will the KLA acquiesce to Serbian forces policing its frontiers. From Wordnik.com. [Doing Injury To History] Reference
Too often, we acquiesce to the comforts of "access" and small favors. From Wordnik.com. [Amy B. Dean: Labor and the Democrats: Accountability for Next Election Cycle Must Start Now] Reference
And is the woman likely to acquiesce in the destruction of her hopes?. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905] Reference
If the minority will not acquiesce, the majority must, or the Government must cease. From Wordnik.com. [US Presidential Inaugural Addresses] Reference
"Peter doesn't acquiesce or bow to anything that contemporary audiences may require.". From Wordnik.com. [O, Captain, My Captain] Reference
We acquiesce to requests to improve and then do things the same way behind their backs. From Wordnik.com. [We Are Working Hard to Build Our Business in Africa] Reference
"Heads!" said the lover, ready to acquiesce to the least of his adversary's conditions. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Arizona preferred to give up its state rights, rather than acquiesce to a "different race.". From Wordnik.com. [Jeff Biggers: Dear Gov. Jan Brewer: Wax On, Wax Off, Or, Welcome to Arizona, Now Go Home] Reference
Cleveland understood the situation and was willing to acquiesce in it if we won at the polls. From Wordnik.com. [Fifty Years of Public Service] Reference
But, says Cohen, BP had other reasons to acquiesce to the president's call for an escrow fund. From Wordnik.com. [BP Agrees To $20 Billion Fund To Help Gulf Victims] Reference
And as there were a dozen other tots of her age in the factory, he had been forced to acquiesce. From Wordnik.com. [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference
In Judge Taylor's words: "I acquiesce in the ... presumption of every black person being a slave.". From Wordnik.com. ['Sellout'] Reference
Of course, Mac could only acquiesce, and Mr. Braga sent a clerk to his broker, Mr. Meyers, to come around. From Wordnik.com. [Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude] Reference
Madame de Bergenheim bowed her head as if to acquiesce in this decision, and then resumed in her drawling voice. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
If Tokyo does not acquiesce to Beijing demands to halt the investigation, Liu says, the dispute could escalate. From Wordnik.com. [Chinese Fishing Crew Released by Japan] Reference
Now, the undertaking being a success, the honor is all yours; for I believe none of us went further than to acquiesce. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference
Svetislav B. KolarovicHirsila, FinlandHow very silly of the Serbs not to acquiesce in constitutionally giving up Kosovo. From Wordnik.com. [Mail Call: Prince, Not Leader] Reference
He was well content to acquiesce, relieved that she had taken his suggestion in good faith without impugning his motive. From Wordnik.com. [The Fifth Ace] Reference
But only earlier this year did Japanese carriers acquiesce to government demands and set a date of Oct. 24 for the change. From Wordnik.com. [Our Cellphone Future] Reference
If the trickle of allegations turns into a flood, Moi's party may see the old man as a liability and acquiesce to a censure of some sort. From Wordnik.com. [Periscope] Reference
This special, almost magical relationship is weakened when physicians and other health professionals acquiesce to the "" provider '' label. From Wordnik.com. [A Physician's Lament] Reference
The Arabs need to acquiesce to an Israeli strike on Iran and this will be achieved through a fast-tracked Israeli-Palestinian peace accord. From Wordnik.com. [Shai Baitel: A Middle Eastern Quid Pro Quo] Reference
The Islamic Republic clearly believes that, with enough time and progress on its part, the West will acquiesce to its nuclear will to power. From Wordnik.com. [Bushehr And The Bomb] Reference
I would not, indeed, yield to apathetic despair or acquiesce in the persuasion that a merely tolerable government is incapable of improvement. From Wordnik.com. [The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886] Reference
Fourth -- I hope that Germany will acquiesce in the demands that have been made, and I hope that she will acquiesce in them without conditions. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 4, July, 1915 April-September, 1915] Reference
Abolitionism -- which with them means not only hostility to slavery, but even the disposition to acquiesce in the military necessity of its extinction. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia directors are expected to acquiesce, allowing her to remain in an unspecified creative role, though without her board seat. From Wordnik.com. [MARTHA'S NEXT FIGHT: KEEPING HER JOB] Reference
The fact is, as stated by Steevens, that "the managers of the theatres-royal have decided, and the public has been obliged to acquiesce in their decision.". From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 5, May 1810] Reference
To acquiesce to what he saw as racist tactics was to "run the risk that next time people will see it as a license to bring out the race card," said Ramirez. From Wordnik.com. [A Warning Shot From Latin U.S.A.] Reference
Europeans may eventually acquiesce to GM foods, which they probably will eventually, many people suspect their choices of what to eat will only get narrower. From Wordnik.com. [You Say Tomato, I Say 'Ick'] Reference
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