Sentence examples for relent at from inspiring English sources

Mr. Penn's lobbying appeared to persuade the Bolivian authorities to relent, at least partly.

He doesn't relent at all.

The accumulation in Central Park was measured at 11.4 inches by the time the snow relented at daybreak Saturday.

But as he grew older, he relented, at least as far as agreeing to appear and speak in public.

Given the rain had relented at the start, as the track was drying so the times tumbled, Q1 still produced a shock.

The Palestinians relented at the weekend, due to pressure caused by both the food shortages and the Americans, who were also pressing Israel to open Karni.

He initially pushed to be traded by the February deadline — under the threat of leaving as a free agent this summer — but he relented at the last minute and agreed to opt into his contract for 2012-13.

It all began very promisingly with Wagner's Prelude to Act 1 of Lohengrin, Wellber gently coaxing the opening pianissimo strings into the clean acoustic of Symphony Hall but keeping the sustained orchestral crescendo that follows under the tightest of reins, and only relenting at the last to allow a full, glorious blossoming from the brass.

Director Brian De Palma, having seen Grease 2, refused to audition Pfeiffer for Scarface (1983), but relented at the insistence of Martin Bregman, the film's producer.

But they relented, at least for a while, in the face of strong public support for the program, and it passed with bipartisan support.

Gotoba relented at this appeal from a man he greatly respected (the second time Shunzei had so interceded on Teika's behalf; the first time was in 1185 when Teika had lost his temper and struck a superior – the lesser general Masayuki – with a lamp).