How To Use Acquiescence In A Sentence

  • But it certainly would consider itself in serious danger if it could not get a larger base of support, or at least of acquiescence. MANAGEMENT: task, responsibilities, practices
  • Quentin, although rather surprised, was at the same time pleased with the ready, or at least the unrepugnant acquiescence of Hayraddin in their change of route, for he needed his assistance as a guide, and yet had feared that the disconcerting of his intended act of treachery would have driven him to extremity. Quentin Durward
  • There was general acquiescence in the UN sanctions.
  • I was surprised by her acquiescence to/in the scheme.
  • a murmur of acquiescence from the assembly
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  • Restriction of competition is synonymous with limitation of movement, acquiescence in control, and telesis, Ward's term for changes ordained by society in distinction from the natural process of change. Introduction to the Science of Sociology
  • There is really no other word in the English language to express the meaning of the ejaculative sound he made, which signified, equally, acquiescence, approval, disapproval, or anything. Picked up at Sea The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek
  • Its essence is the intentional infliction of severe pain or suffering by an official or by someone else with the consent or acquiescence of an official, and the maximum penalty is life imprisonment.
  • The half-caste smiled and nodded acquiescence as he folded up the money. A GOBOTO NIGHT
  • Thus, as we have seen, the Convention Against Torture bans all torture but defines torture as consisting of certain acts committed at the "instigation of or with the consent or acquiescence of a public official or other person acting in an official capacity. David Isenberg: Outsourcing War and Peace: Part 3
  • I shall only say, that those who are inconversant with these objects of faith — whose minds are not delighted in the admiration of, and acquiescence in, things incomprehensible, such as is this constitution of the person of Christologia
  • An underacknowledged distinction in studies of legitimacy centers on whether the organization seeks active support or merely passive acquiescence.
  • After their initial statements, all of the parties kept a careful silence, with the complete acquiescence of a tame media.
  • In the latter situation, the acquiescence could not constitute permission and was only consistent with user as of right.
  • I was surprised by her acquiescence to/in the scheme.
  • In cases of this type, the customer's failure to object to the respective entry is considered acquiescence in the charge so made.
  • An arranged marriage becomes a forced marriage when parents use coercion to obtain the acquiescence of their daughters. Times, Sunday Times
  • Yes, yes, all this is certain, and I may not ever go a-traveling everywhither to see the ends of this world and judge them: and the desire to do so no longer moves in me, for there is a cloud about my goings, and there is a whispering which follows me, and I too fall away into the acquiescence of beasts. Figures of Earth
  • They also expected obeisance, deference, and acquiescence to their methods - even groveling - from me.
  • Efforts to clamp down on discomfiting material result not in frustrated acquiescence but in renewed assaults on the self-importance that lies behind knee-jerk censorial action. March « 2009 « Sentence first
  • Thou, my Alan, wilt treat as timidity this passive acquiescence, which has sunk down on me like a benumbing torpor; but if thou hast remembered by what visions my couch was haunted, and dost but think of the probability that I am in the vicinity, perhaps under the same roof with Redgauntlet
  • A buoyant optimism and a stoic acceptance of finitude, a blood-rush of ecstasy and an acquiescence in the logic of mortality have alternated in this magisterial painter's art for more than four decades.
  • seduce the unwary reader into easy acquiescence
  • Her mental maturity takes her from blind submission to condescending acquiescence.
  • Nothing less than complete acquiescence is acceptable within this church of political correctness.
  • To survive, the enemy requires the assistance or at least the acquiescence of the people. Times, Sunday Times
  • By "codependence", willful blindness, lazyacquiescence, misled enthusiasm - whatever blend of abrogation of responsibility, we have contributed to this great evil. Time for repentance
  • Goby made vigorous play with the claret-bottle during the brief interval of potation allowed to him; he, too, little deeming that he should never drink bumper there again; Clive looking on with the melancholy and silent acquiescence which had, of late, been his part in the household. The Newcomes
  • Commanded to sit by Sir Walter, the women are all obedient acquiescence.
  • With the apparent acquiescence of the insurgents, he also encouraged tribal leaders to commit recruits to the Ramadi police force. Times, Sunday Times
  • French literature, discussions on the advisability of establishing a monarchy, on the advisability of establishing a republic, on the advisability of establishing an empire; and before we proceed to examine the arguments, we cannot help being struck at the strange contrast which this multiplicity of open questions presents to our own uninquiring acquiescence in the hereditary polity which has descended to us. Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American
  • Her unexpected acquiescence completely deflated him.
  • [Page 221] even with respect to the spiritual interests of beloved friends, where certainly acquiescence in disappointment is most difficult (perhaps in this world impossible) even in this case, there is great consolation in recollecting, that the Judge of all the earth will do right. Memoirs, Correspondence and Poetical Remains of Jane Taylor
  • For the young lovers, Pelléas and Mélisande, the only ‘happiness’ is acquiescence in their destiny - what happens to them; and acquiescence becomes identified with inanition.
  • Above all, the system is destructive of faith, having a tendency to substitute passive acquiescence for real conviction; and therefore I should not say that the excess of it was popery, but that it had once and actually those characters of evil which we sometimes express by the term popery, but which may be better signified by the term idolatry; a reverence for that which ought not to be reverenced, leading to a want of faith in that which is really deserving of all adoration and love. The Christian Life Its Course, Its Hindrances, And Its Helps
  • The impassioned egalitarian rhetoric that asserts this supposed obligation cows many people into acquiescence.
  • Efforts to clamp down on discomfiting material result not in frustrated acquiescence but in renewed assaults on the self-importance that lies behind knee-jerk censorial action. Saints, censors and satire
  • People are consulted more to gain their assent or acquiescence rather than to ascertain their views. Remaking Planning: the politics of urban change in the Thatcher years
  • Nonetheless, the Bush administration, in acquiescence to the Lobby, has "bludgeoned" its European partners to go along with its uncompromising support for the Jewish state despite all the obvious perils from it. The Power of Israel in the United States
  • Adam nodded his acquiescence and stood to begin clearing the table in stony silence.
  • Being silent can be a mode of resistance, respect,[Sentence dictionary] apathy or acquiescence.
  • In colonial and antebellum America, slaves could buy their freedom, but only with the acquiescence of their masters.
  • While the prosecution argues that Dunn and his team manipulated the books to claim the bonuses, the defense said such a fraud would have required the acquiescence of hundreds of accountants at both Nortel and Deloitte, an idea it called "preposterous. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
  • When turnout in an election for the state government in 2008 reached an unprecedented 60%, many Indians misread this as belated Kashmiri acquiescence in Indian rule.
  • This concern that the project continue provided a basis for council acquiescence to the very compressed first-year schedule.
  • The circles of fashion afforded more than one instance of this obliging acquiescence in matrimonial turpitude. Memoirs of Mary Robinson
  • No immunity from infringement has been claimed on the basis of any earlier right or acquiescence in the present case.
  • Benny Hempstead always smiled and nodded acquiescence, but there was in him the strange persistency of a willow bough, the persistency of pliability, which is the most unconquerable of all. The Copy-Cat, & Other Stories
  • What is much more alarming is the apparent acquiescence - even complicity - of the nation in its own enslavement.
  • They suffered, with unapproving acquiescence, solicitations, which they had in no shape desired, to an unjust and usurping power, whom they had never provoked, and whose hostile menaces they did not dread. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05 (of 12)
  • People are consulted more to gain their assent or acquiescence rather than to ascertain their views. Remaking Planning: the politics of urban change in the Thatcher years
  • Overall, European acquiescence in the campaign can be taken for granted.
  • Congress has fostered presidential lawmaking by acquiescence.
  • The Roman course wears an air of a more delicate acquiescence, draws the veil of a new contract over the change, and concedes the general insupportableness of mere community? The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
  • People are consulted more to gain their assent or acquiescence rather than to ascertain their views. Remaking Planning: the politics of urban change in the Thatcher years
  • And when we call for leaders, we're attesting to a weakness, an acquiescence in followership. Times, Sunday Times
  • All kinds of atrocious policies -- from Lyndon Johnson's war on Vietnam to Jimmy Carter's midterm swerve rightward to Bill Clinton's neoliberal measures such as NAFTA, "welfare reform" and Wall Street deregulation -- were calamities facilitated by acquiescence or mild dissent from many left-leaning Democrats. Norman Solomon: Obama: Beyond Savior or Trickster

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