A girl with no power, being told by a bigger person with authority what to do, might be acquiescing to what is happening to her, but she is not consenting.
"We don't want to send the wrong signals to our allies and others in the region that we are acquiescing to the greater power that Iran has," Webb said.
It is important to note, he suggests, that even today, people are acquiescing to mass slaughter.
It might be time for them to try harder, with a more concerted offensive that rallies the public and, at the very least, forces whatever moderate Republicans there are left to be honest, if not ashamed, about what they are acquiescing to by confirming him.
Because SAP and Oracle are acquiescing to the cloud, yet they have no strategy to get their customers there.
Unless we're prepared to remain vigilant and to stand up and publicly advocate against those who are purveyors of that ideology, then we are acquiescing to it".
On Friday, South Korea said that one of its officials was invited to enter North Korea this week to help monitor the distribution of flour donated by a civic group in another sign that North Korea was acquiescing to relief agencies' demands for more transparency.
But he is having to perform a tricky high-wire act, placating mutinous MPs of all parties who dislike the new arrangements, while avoiding giving the impression to the public that he is acquiescing in a return to the bad old days.That could prove tricky in a political climate defined by anger, mistrust and contempt among voters.
It is acquiescing to what is already in place.
Alibhai-Brown's blunt response is that they are "acquiescing to and projecting religious misogyny and cultural disdain".
