Sentence examples for acquiescent from inspiring English sources

Not all Labour activists are convinced that the wave of new members recruited by Mr Blair will stay in the party if the government hits hard times; nor, if they do, that they will be the same acquiescent cheerleaders they are now.

The Democrats, then the freer-trading party, were unusually acquiescent.

China, which at first voiced reservations about the Indian nuclear deal with America, is now shrewdly acquiescent.

There has been no examination of the strategic choices that were open to the prime minister in the run-up to war nor of the decisions, some disastrous, taken over post-war planning both before and after the invasion, in which Britain was at least acquiescent.

Aided by Mr Radler, a tight-knit group of business cronies and a shamefully acquiescent audit committee, Lord Black's systematic long-term looting of the companies he controlled became increasingly frenzied.

An acquiescent parliament approved the appointment of General Kriangsak and the king, as the formal head of state, wearily gave him his blessing.Until 1932 Thailand, then called Siam, had been ruled by a monarch with absolute powers.

China, acquiescent in America's efforts, will raise its eyebrows at the mention of North Korea, of which it is, in an admittedly awkward fashion, an ally.

This is messy but not acquiescent.

A succession of acquiescent cripples exclaims in rapture on the strange forms in which it has pleased heaven to shape them.

For 15 years Wilfrid Laurier's Liberal government reflected the acquiescent politics of prosperity and progress, but it also fostered a degree of social activism inspired by the growing Progressive movement in the United States.

Set in a future Britain where language, media, literature, and personal freedoms have been curtailed, place names have been altered, and the population lives in an acquiescent state of "moral hypnosis," the novel forced the reader to work out what characters refer to as "What Happened, If It Happened" against absences and elisions.