Sentence examples for relent and from inspiring English sources

States that have adamantly refused to expand should relent and take the generous federal funds.

Mr. Boehner should relent and allow the House to vote on the Senate bill.

Lau seemed to relent, and agreed to help with the murder.

You can't simply relent and walk back out of the room.

Still, the chiefs would not relent, and so Fayyad went public.

But the Irishman wouldn't relent and secured a lead he never surrendered.

Might this at last be the moment the dinosaurs of Labour relent and adopt proportional representation?

When the filmmakers relent and allow the threat to become visible, it's a letdown.

But her kindly uncle persuades her father to relent, and the union with Arturo is blessed.

not to crash any more unsanctioned races with men, so that it might relent and allow longer races for women.

Brussels might relent and push Athens to liberalise other markets as a way to achieve the same end.