Verb (used without object), : to acquiesce halfheartedly in a business plan.    From Dictionary.com. 

After being publicly shamed, McCain acquiesced to Byrd’s request.    From Wordnik.com.  [Al Franken's senate shut down] Reference

Let’s remember that McCain acquiesced in legislation that did not extend the Field Manual to such interrogations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » Cornyn Holds Up Holder, Demands Immunity From Prosecution For Torturers] Reference

But he said he "acquiesced" in this decision "'because it is both long established and narrowly limited.'".    From Wordnik.com.  [Five Gun Salute] Reference

What is meant by "acquiesced" in Article 9 (1) and in particular.    From Wordnik.com.  [The IPKat - supporting prudent IP use] Reference

"I am content you are content," his wife acquiesced.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Most Beautiful Show In The World] Reference

"I suppose we shall," Frank acquiesced, though reluctantly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Army Boys on German Soil Our Doughboys Quelling the Mobs] Reference

Frank went white at the suggestion, but quietly acquiesced.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chicken Little Jane] Reference

The United States, moreover, soon acquiesced in this view, for.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920] Reference

"Very well," acquiesced the girl, "but I hope I make no mistakes.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Motor Girls on Cedar Lake Or the Hermit of Fern Island] Reference

"The kite, to be sure; we mustn't forget the kite," acquiesced the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day] Reference

In Numaniya, Franks acquiesced and posed for photos with some Marines.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Soldier's Soldier] Reference

But the union wouldn't surrender benefits, and the company acquiesced.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Sinking Welfare State] Reference

To this Molly acquiesced of necessity; there was no appeal to her brother.    From Wordnik.com.  [Grey Town An Australian Story] Reference

And people acquiesced to his wishes almost with a sigh of relief, it seemed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robin Givhan on Tom Ford's beautiful -- if secret -- new line] Reference

Powell acquiesced -- then pressured a reluctant Schwarzkopf into agreeing, too.    From Wordnik.com.  [Colin Powell: Behind The Myth] Reference

I readily acquiesced, with an apology for my interruption, and Thorwald resumed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daybreak; a Romance of an Old World] Reference

The Cadi acquiesced in my proposal, but ordered the guards to surround the entrance, while.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference

Sara, sensing his wish to be gone and genuinely disturbed at Molly's non-appearance, acquiesced.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hermit of Far End] Reference

But the House leadership refused to go along, and the White House acquiesced to their opposition.    From Wordnik.com.  [Do The Nation A Service] Reference

Massa acquiesced and slowed so much that it was obvious he was letting Alonso pass him for the win.    From Wordnik.com.  [Steve Parker: F1 and IndyCar: Cheating and Bad Calls] Reference

He acquiesced at once, and Toombs promised to have transportation ready by the time Smith returned.    From Wordnik.com.  [Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War] Reference

In the event, however, Washington acquiesced to each of Beijing's interventions in Hong Kong affairs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beijing's Heavy Hand In Hong Kong] Reference

When I took this course the legislative board acquiesced, but Governor Wells immediately requested the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

I had opposed the movement strenuously, but acquiesced because it was the order of my superior at the time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

I acquiesced because I wanted to believe that we were enlightened and no longer bound by gender stereotypes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Marriage Barely Survived] Reference

  He would have acquiesced even though he thought the climate of the emergency room was pleasantly unnoticeable.    From Wordnik.com.  [After the Badlands] Reference

"In a way," acquiesced the young aviator, "only there won't be much acting -- it will be real, earnest hard work.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Dave Dashaway and His Hydroplane] Reference

Moreover, even many mainstream Muslims have supported or at least acquiesced in the persecution of minority faiths.    From Wordnik.com.  [Doug Bandow: America, Home of the Free -- Except for Muslims?] Reference

Ideala acquiesced, fearing it was his own lunch time, and knowing it would detain him if she did not accompany him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ideala] Reference

Porter, as was always the case with him, not only acquiesced in the plan, but volunteered to use his entire fleet as transports.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

(William Shatner, a.k.a. Captain Kirk, hadn't yet acquiesced to participate in the convention-scene carny, though he soon would.).    From Wordnik.com.  [We’re All Trekkies Now] Reference

How the public debt is to be paid or specie payments resumed is not so important as that a plan should be adopted and acquiesced in.    From Wordnik.com.  [US Presidential Inaugural Addresses] Reference

In this measure all parties acquiesced, as it fell easy on private persons, at the same time that it satisfied the public creditors.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1] Reference