How to use "acquiesce" in a sentence (2024)

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Man feels the same impulsion, but he knows that he is free to acquiesce or to resist.
To argue otherwise now is to acquiesce in a rhetoric which those of us who accept universal human rights have no choice but to reject as racist.
If we do not make a stand, we will acquiesce to our positioning as mere spectators in the construction of our society.
However, to understand is not to acquiesce in or accept these developments.
No matter what side you're on, there are enough voters who either agree with you or acquiesce to you to win the election.
Third, have an alternative strategy to wrest the initiative from them and force them to acquiesce.
In many cases it is being done by co-opting both the clergy and the laity, giving them no alternative except to acquiesce.
The best strategy for the author is to refuse to acquiesce and wait for the threatener to give up.
If he was not prepared to bend to his wife's wishes on this, will he acquiesce to any pleas for extra cash in the future?
Rather than acquiesce, many women won a voice in the public sphere by forming societies and clubs for self-improvement and community reform.
Hence, they are resolute in not placing themselves in a position of having to acquiesce to another agreement hammered out by the rich countries.
He ought to acquiesce, using at the same time the utmost powers of his reason to promote its repeal.
Now that these men demand their pound of flesh in increasingly raucous voices, the government at the Centre has no resort left but to acquiesce.
Her request was granted, although the hospital doesn't usually acquiesce to such appeals.
It took about two centuries to pacify the province, and indeed not until after 1854 did the Miao fully acquiesce in their fate.
So, it turned out that White had to acquiesce to the exchange of Bishop for Knight after all!
To counter this threat, futilitarians are moving on two fronts to all but guarantee that courts will ultimately acquiesce to futile care theory.
If on the other hand, these were imposed on them by a more powerful superstratum, they had to acquiesce.
But lately the catcalls and hisses are dying down as audiences acquiesce to the reality of in-theater advertising.
War is necessary, as a last resort, for resolving disputes between states that cannot agree and will not acquiesce.
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If the minority will not acquiesce, the majority must, or the Government must cease.
They accredit that view with being strictly one, supposing that all qualified to arbitrate would acquiesce and agree in the same.
If you do not find him, will you not acquiesce that it is best you should not find him?
Domiloff, who did not expect the Duke of Reist in an hour, was forced to acquiesce.
When worthy means of obtaining redress are exhausted it requires almost a supernatural virtue not to acquiesce in unworthy means.
The bystanders seemed to acquiesce in the justness and rightfulness of the action.
This truth is so simple that the very ease with which we acquiesce in it robs it of its power.
Could I not pretend to acquiesce to his wishes, and so delay your end?
I could not but acquiesce, for I was dog tired, and could not have sat up had I tried.
But it is almost incredible to me how a man whose life is marred and made hideous by such laws can possibly acquiesce in their continuance.
But did not America acquiesce in the dethronement of the Stuarts?
Here, the vocative in Miss Roj's diatribe includes all audience members, who, through their silence, acquiesce to pervasive homelessness and suffering.
Middleton was obliged to acquiesce, and, as it was confessedly dangerous to remain upon their feet, each one set about assisting in the means to be adopted for their security.
We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
Acquiesce gracefully, not intemperately, in the prevailing sentiment.

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How to use "acquiesce" in a sentence (2024)

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