"We acceded to them and said, 'If this is the bar, we'll do it,' " said Representative Rahm Emanuel, Democrat of Illinois and the chairman of the House Democratic Caucus.
While the Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries is advising businesses to refuse the militants' demands, a number of owners have acceded to them and others are negotiating, according to Malvern Rusike, the group's chief executive.
Since capitulating to lenders' demands, Tsipras has repeatedly declared that he does not agree with the policies he is being forced to enact and that he acceded to them only to stave off the worse result of Greece's expulsion from the Eurozone.
A pivotal question is whether President Vladimir V. Putin, a K.G.B. agent and a director of the security service, is behind those acts or merely acceding to them.
Yet although we should pay attention to the choices which people express, it is not always right to accede to them.
Don't accede to them acting like a prima donna.
Some Council members have been reluctant to keep extending them, but acceded to Iraq's wishes on that point.
We stand ready, with our partners in the road safety community, to help countries to accede and implement them.
Managing multiethnic polities with fractured ethno-geography requires not suppressing local demands but acceding sufficiently to them, while also engaging in genuine state-building that makes membership in the federal union too attractive to reject.
According to Fahey's deputy, Helena Keleher, the government acceded to Vatican pressure and granted them immunity from testifying.
