Sentence examples for call acceded to from inspiring English sources

Mr. Gore forced the topic back onto the campaign agenda last week with his call, acceded to by President Clinton, for the government to release oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to head off shortages of home heating oil -- an action that both the president and the vice president had opposed earlier in the year.

Pre-BP, when President Obama acceded to oil patch calls for expanded drilling, I called it a "Sister Souljah moment with Mother Earth;" post-BP, Mother Earth has struck back with a vengeance.

The U.S. president warned of what diplomats delicately call "regime change" in Baghdad unless Saddam acceded to the U.N.'s demand that its inspectors be allowed back into Iraq.

While his parents rarely acceded to his wish to be called Suleyman, they did support him financially as he went off to Yemen and Pakistan to study Arabic and Islam.

The actor acceded to the direction, but the next day called to say he was quitting to do "Jekyll and Hyde" in Rhode Island.

It took many years for the term homosexual to be used free of pejorative, and it was not until 1987 that the paper acceded to the wishes of homosexuals to be called gay.

The magistrates acceded to these demands, but they had already called the yeoman cavalry from Upwell, who arrived at 5 pm.

Trump later called for a boycott of the company's products unless it acceded to the FBI's demand that it unlock one of the San Bernardino shooters' iPhones, a request Apple had strenuously resisted.

Initially Lugo acceded to his dismissal, but within days he sought its reversal, calling the action a "parliamentary coup".

In 1988 most members of the SDP acceded to a merger with the Liberal Party to form what is now called the Liberal Democratic Party.

Ehsanullah Arianzai, director of Ariana TV, the network that acceded to the order to drop "Kumkum," suggested that some of the politicians calling for the ban were motivated less by beliefs than by business concerns.