Sentence examples for be acquiescing from inspiring English sources
verb
To rest satisfied, or apparently satisfied, or to rest without opposition and discontent (usually implying previous opposition or discontent); to accept or consent by silence or by omitting to object.
America seems to be acquiescing in the breakup of the putative Palestinian state.
Settling for less than President Obama's requested amounts for the agencies would be acquiescing in the derailment of Dodd-Frank.
When the US agreed that Jerusalem could be exempted from the settlement freeze, Erekat said that would be acquiescing in "ethnic cleansing".
"If we let Isil (Isis) get their way, then we will be acquiescing, first, in a gigantic and violent change in international borders…we will be allowing a new and hideous regime to be born".
If Trump had just posted a 49-state, Reagan-esque landslide victory, I could more readily understand why the press would be acquiescing so regularly.
A girl with no power, being told by a bigger person with authority what to do, might be acquiescing to what is happening to her, but she is not consenting.
The ideal point for questionnaire could be acquiesced with all positive answers except one.
It is acquiescing to what is already in place.
"We don't agree, but we're acquiescing".
It is important to note, he suggests, that even today, people are acquiescing to mass slaughter.
But if our leaders are acquiescing in genocide, that's because we citizens are passive, too.
