Acquiescing in a sentence

In the aftermath, Paltrow said: “I felt that acquiescing to a false claim compromised my integrity.

He did so after acquiescing for three hours while watching the carnage unfold on television and condoning it through his inaction.

It’s a show of dominance directed more at Republicans than Democrats, meant to make them abase themselves by acquiescing to a nomination they know is indefensible.

Society is fencing opportunities from honest people and acquiescing to perfidy.

Again, there were good reasons for acquiescing to Rundstedt’s caution.

In an interim move, Gantz nominated himself for the position of Parliament Speaker — acquiescing to a demand by Netanyahu not to put forward an ally whom Netanyahu found objectionable — and was voted into that position Thursday evening.

The term straddles an uneasy line between critiquing the "shaming" of a woman on the basis of her sex life, real or imagined, and acquiescing to the shamer's frame of reference in which sexually active women are sluts, and sluttiness shameful.

With Gov. Northam’s veto threat and Democrats in the General Assembly acquiescing to it, the new House of Delegates map will be drawn by the courts.

Maryland claimed Virginia lost its riparian rights by acquiescing to MDE's permit process for 63 years (MDE began its permit process in 1933).

Often Europa steadies herself by touching one of the bull's horns, acquiescing.

To try to suppress their feelings of anxiety and dread, people confine themselves within everyday experience, Sartre asserts, thereby relinquishing their freedom and acquiescing to being possessed in one form or another by "the Look" of "the Other" (i.

With his friends scattered, the saintly Hosius in exile, and Pope Liberius denounced as acquiescing in Arian formularies, Athanasius could hardly hope to escape.