I think it's a general sense of the liberalization of our society, and I think my average police officer in the street would tell you that he is encountering more resistance to his or her authority, and that's inappropriate because it ratchets up what they have to do to get acquiescence to things they are attempting to enforce.
And, to get Israeli acquiescence, the Obama Administration will need to find some way of providing additional strategic reassurance to Israel.
It is doubtful to get Taliban acquiescence to a coalition government with Karzai, if they have any role in government, the current malaise of corruption, drug production, warlords, and drug lords will be eliminated.
Could this be the goody that the oil industry gets for its acquiescence on a climate bill?
They might be encouraged to have an emotional representative on screen, but I think my question and my confidence in my answer was more important than getting Ridley's support or acquiescence".
West explains that, historically, rape law has seen two kinds of forced sex as consensual: first, the sex that a man forces on his wife (since she was thought to have "consented" permanently and irrevocably to sex by getting married); and second, submission or acquiescence in the face of a show of force and/or a threat of more violence to come.
For the governments of Europe in the midst of the EU's worst-ever crisis, it is getting increasingly difficult to reconcile internationally ordained austerity packages with popular acquiescence in spending cuts, job losses and slashed budgets.
Soft power means co-operating with people in getting what you want, not by coercion, and it is not the same as influence or persuasion, but possesses the ability to attract and leads to acquiescence (Nye 2004: 5 6).
Never mind that this governor with legislative acquiescence has been pushing unpopular high-speed rail and getting away with it.
The good news for him and us is that we need just a very few such acquiescences to get to the point where the Dumb Pipes will blend seamlessly into a single platform.
