And the U.S. and other countries have acquiesced in all this.
Copenhagen ended with the most significant agreement on climate change to date – the first time developed and major developing countries had acquiesced to curbing their greenhouse gas emissions: a concord between the US, China, India, Europe and all the major emerging economies had been unthinkable only a few years before.
It is unsurprising that Erdoğan views the west's stated concern for democracy as nothing but a cynical tool of foreign policy: after all, these same countries mutely acquiesced in the military overthrow of his friend Mohamed Morsi, the democratically elected Muslim Brotherhood president of Egypt, only three years ago.
The army, historically the most influential institution in the country, has for years acquiesced in the advance of the Taliban insurgency, which has taken control not just of the Swat Valley, but also of the vast region known as the Federally Administered Tribal Areas.
Malik has acquiesced, but acquiescence breeds rage.
To start, no one has yet thought to accuse Israel of creating a phoney country in finally acquiescing to the creation of a Palestinian state.
When communist regimes in the Soviet-bloc countries of eastern Europe collapsed in 1989 90, Gorbachev acquiesced in their fall.
The civilian leaders of the cabinet finally acquiesced when the United States and other Western countries also sent troops to Russia, but Tanaka, who had dreams of a Japanese empire in Siberia, conspired among his own military associates to send in many times the number of Japanese troops originally agreed upon and to keep them there long after other countries had withdrawn their forces.
The attorney general, Mohammad Ishaq Aloko, a Karzai protégé, was out of the country undergoing medical treatment; in his absence, his deputy acquiesced.
After eight months of deliberation, one refusal and much persistence from Dubai, Qassim finally acquiesced, and made her way back to her home country.
