Sentence examples for as acceding from inspiring English sources

The administration feared being seen as acceding too quickly to a host nation's desire for the United States to reduce its forward military footprint.

Sacher Habash, a member of the governing council, the Fatah Central Committee, criticized any effort to unify the forces as acceding to American pressure and weakening Mr. Arafat.

Several American-based Jewish groups issued statements that denounced the decision as acceding to threats of boycotts by Islamic groups.

The Bible says that Solomon consolidated his position by liquidating his opponents ruthlessly as soon as he acceded to the throne.

In light of that, the departing justice minister, Yossi Beilin, railed at his fellow Laborites for what he described as quietly acceding to the notion that their path toward peace had reached at least a temporary dead end.

He too says that we should accede as soon as possible, but he then says in his report that we should add something else or construct a new organization within the EU.

The article, The Forgotten Prince, says Charles is keen to continue with as much of his environmental and charitable work as possible before acceding to the throne.

On his father's death, after acceding as Khosrow I (531 579), he concluded peace with the Byzantine emperor Justinian (532).

February 18th I had thought that maman's death would make me someone "strong," acceding as I might to worldly indifference.

Given the existence of such forms as accede and accuse, on the one hand, and of except, exceed, and excuse, on the other, one might be inclined to analyze accept into ac- (which might subsequently be recognized as a variant of ad-) and -cept.

Stockdale ordered his men to endure as much physical abuse as they could before acceding to any of their interrogators' demands -- the key, in his view, to preserving a sense of dignity -- and to always confess to fellow inmates everything they had been forced to divulge.