When an agent is confronted by a threat, one ground on which her acquiescence may be excused is if the threat causes a total breakdown in her will.
But so much else about it is problematic, beginning with Coco's acquiescence, which makes very little sense.
As paraphrased by Milosz, Shestov, following Dostoevsky's "Notes from Underground," was what Plato called a misologos, a hater of reason; rather than play the game of chess proposed by the philosophers of reason, which is stoic acquiescence, Shestov "overturns the table with a kick," asking, "Why should the 'I' accept 'wisdom,' which obviously violates its most intense desire?
A smooth transition of ownership depends on Sterling's acquiescence, which is by no means assured. .
There's an idea in Stoicism, Holiday explains, called the "art of acquiescence," which is yielding to the things that you can't change and making the best of them, rather than allowing them to upset or frustrate you.
Engagement should thus be differentiated from acquiescence, which is unlikely to support the dialogue necessary to lay the foundation for making requests in the next phase.
Of the 59 charges against Lee, all but one was dropped - to which he made formal acquiescence.
Mr. Enarson publicly referred to athletic scholarships as "a silent acquiescence in which athletes and institutions exploit each other".
Conventional wisdom holds that Israel's long-range bombers would need to refuel in the air above Iraq, which would require American acquiescence.
The U.N. struggled to exert influence on the Government which, with the effective acquiescence of a post-9/11 world order, was determined to defeat militarily an organization designated as terrorist.
