Sentence examples for public acquiescence from inspiring English sources
To refuse public acquiescence would be difficult, he realized.
But this campaign helps sustain public acquiescence in a massacre of the welfare state.
What might be amazing is that political marketing was able to buy public acquiescence to this through two election cycles.
In previous economic crises, utter disaster has been averted by cross-party consensus on the need for hairshirt economies, and a kind of grim public acquiescence.
Yet it would be extremely naive to think that every war could be as brief and inexpensive for those prosecuting it, or that public acquiescence would follow.
Most appreciate that no such transaction exists in the real world, for the very reason that those making the argument stand to gain so much from public acquiescence.
The alternative was the "reconciliation with a rehabilitated GVN track", which involved the public appearance of acquiescence to Diệm's recent actions and an attempt to salvage as much as possible from the situation.
"That's acquiescence to public pressure".
It goes like this: the Legislature will, over the public disapproval but secret acquiescence of Gov. George E. Pataki, pass a budget that raises taxes.
But it is unusual that reports of the detentions become public, apparently with government acquiescence, in only a few hours, as in this case.
As the War Propaganda Bureau's massive efforts, along with press acquiescence, kept public opinion on side, it took a special kind of bravery to query the wisdom of bloodshed before shots were fired, or call for a negotiated peace mid-carnage.
