Sentence examples for an acquiescence from inspiring English sources

Now, however, the act often merely represents an acquiescence to the photo-snapping visitor.

But it was widely seen as an acquiescence to Taliban control of the area.

"Once there is an acquiescence that this sort of corruption is acceptable, then you just see the demise of representative government," Hauser said.

Beginning in the 1870's, as the price of reconciliation, the North accepted the demands of Southern whites that they manage "Negroes" as they pleased -- an acquiescence to an era of lynching and Jim Crow.

Rabbi David Schuck of the Pelham Jewish Center in Westchester County, N.Y., said of the religious conversion bill, "It spits in the face of Diaspora Jews in particular, and if passed, it would be an acquiescence of the majority of Israeli Jews to a fundamentalist interpretation of Judaism".

Sometimes, a director's vision can overwhelm the original: watching Spike Jonze's "Where The Wild Things Are" — even if one admires the movie — requires an acquiescence to Jonze's own idiosyncratic reading of Maurice Sendak's classic picture book, a substitution of Jonze's imagination for one's own.

I mean he traveled from what seemed to me a pained acquiescence to a different, happier, better place.

Consent isn't merely the absence of a no, a contextless acquiescence.

At this hour the animosities of political strife, the bitterness of partisan defeat, and the exultation of partisan triumph should be supplanted by an ungrudging acquiescence in the popular will and a sober, conscientious concern for the general weal.

They are intended to provide guidance to IRS staff who are working on similar issues, until an official acquiescence or non-acquiescence is decided.

"What might have been an uneasy acquiescence was too often turned into anger and resentment by military tactics which were heavy-handed and disdainful of the Iraqis," he wrote.