Sentence examples for By acquiescence from inspiring English sources

Sadly, this repression is abetted by acquiescence from Washington and by grants from aid organizations.

All those things may be true, but that era was never characterised by acquiescence.

The Phillips Report into the BSE crisis made the fundamental point that much of the scientific advice to government at that time was characterised by acquiescence and an unwillingness to stand up to political pressure.

As EU membership is defined by acquiescence to the primacy of European law, this means a third of his MPs and half of his backbenchers are asking Mr Cameron for "Brexit", before his vaunted renegotiation of the terms of membership has even begun.

All three methods appear to reduce the bias introduced by acquiescence.

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.

The idea that the natives would recognise superior firepower when they saw it seemed to be validated by Pakistani acquiescence, followed by the Taliban's swift capitulation.

Nasser and the Free Officers took power by coup, abetted by the acquiescence of leftists, who hoped they would make good on their promises for a democratic parliament (they never did), and the Muslim Brotherhood, which thought it had enough connections among the Free Officers to get a seat at the table.

Many of these interpretations were carried out by government bureaucrats, accompanied by judicial acquiescence.

Assessment by self-reported questionnaires has certain limitation such as response bias caused by either acquiescence, socially desirable responding, or extreme responding [ 31, 32].

My husband now nodded, disloyally, I thought, as if he, too, were appalled by my acquiescence in a wanton act of check vandalism.