"They have been saying that OPEC would relent for months," Mr. Schumer said.
But he did relent for an eco-tourism resort in the Australian outback, which has ordered five.
Forcing Republicans to relent for now in their extortionate ways is a tactical victory for Mr. Obama and Congressional Democrats in the long budget war.
Mr. Gates, the administration's most outspoken proponent of continuing the current strategy, also said that military pressure on the Taliban insurgency would not relent for at least six months.
(Mr. Gates kept it up on Thursday in Brussels, where he assured NATO that "there will be no rush to the exits" and that military pressure on the Taliban would not relent for at least six months).
The Bush administration opposes both more stimulus and the loan guarantees, but may relent for political reasons.If a package fails to pass this month, Congress will probably revisit it in January, when Democrats expect to have a larger majority in both chambers.
When Abraham pled for him to refrain for the sake of the few godly inhabitants, God said that he would relent for sake of even 10 righteous people, if they could be found.
Despite Smith trying to bring the rest of the album's tracks from a jam-long length to something more manageable, Smith relented for "Interstellar Overdrive", as Jenner recalled: "It was definitely the deal that — hey, here you can do 'Interstellar Overdrive', you can do what you like, you can do your weird shit.
It looks as though the rain has relented for the action.
When I last met her, she didn't even own a computer but she has relented for research purposes.
The Pakistanis relented for a time, allowing nearly 15,000 people to cross into the country in four days.
