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was acquiescence

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A silent or passive assent or submission, or a submission with apparent content; - distinguished from avowed consent on the one hand, and on the other, from opposition or open discontent; quiet satisfaction.

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The price was acquiescence to Berlusconi's personal management of the country.

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"That's acquiescence to public pressure".

All you want in politics is acquiescence.

Without Mr Brown's acquiescence it was always a non-starter.

Among their concerns is "acquiescence bias", whereby respondents do not challenge assumptions implicit in the question.

"The general mood of the board has been acquiescence," he said.

The Lib Dems' attitude to most of these reforms has been acquiescence, or active support.

"Silence is acquiescence," said Jorge Guajardo, a former Mexican ambassador to China, who argued that the country's politicians could no longer hope to avoid provoking Trump by staying silent.

"Silence is acquiescence," he said, adding about Mr. Morsi: "At some point if you are so heedless of the common good that you are ready to take the country to the brink and overlook bodies in the street, that is just not O.K".

Moussa Dadis Camara, in an assassination attempt; then what appeared to be acquiescence by his second-in-command, Gen. Sékouba Konaté, to a switch to civilian leadership; and finally the scene of hope last week when Mr. Doré took power and promised the nation its first truly free elections within the year.

The mass shooting "reminded us that silence in the face of anti-Semitism and hate is acquiescence," Greenblatt said.

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