To achieve that goal, the bank was willing to accede to requests that the memo concedes were "a bit unorthodox".
Many hotels routinely accede to requests for a few hours' late checkout without penalty, assuming they aren't fully booked.
The most important prisoners — the suspected insurgency members deemed to be High Value Detainees — were housed at Camp Cropper, near the Baghdad airport, but the pressure on soldiers to accede to requests from military intelligence was felt throughout the system.
But podiatrists often accede to requests for therapies for toenail fungus, which many people did not know existed until ads for Laprisil, an antifungal medicine, started appearing on television.
Are they, on the contrary, duty-bound not to accede to requests for assistance with suicide or voluntary euthanasia in light of independent moral considerations?
Likewise, Mr. Obama seemed caught off balance when he was asked why the administration had not acceded to requests from diplomats to bolster security at the embassy in Tripoli, Libya.
Perhaps most tellingly, the economic adviser to President Vladimir V. Putin came out strongly against acceding to requests by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries to reduce shipments.
Sebastian Faulks, acceding to requests for a reading from Birdsong over his latest novel, muttered, "We never normally do 'A Whiter Shade of Pale', but just this once..."...
On July 2, in part acceding to requests from the railroads, U.S. Attorney General Richard Olney procured an injunction from federal judges to halt acts impeding mail service and interstate commerce.
The Health Department could have avoided moving Seaport residents to other troubled homes had it acceded to requests from some advocacy groups and appointed what is known as as a temporary receiver to manage the home.
In our study it is clear that not all changes requested by peer reviewers are appropriate, as authors sometimes acceded to requests for inappropriate revisions to their manuscript; presumably in the hope that it would increase the likelihood of the manuscript being accepted for publication if they made the changes.
