Sentence examples for without their acquiescence from inspiring English sources

And, with or without their acquiescence, if Michael Schiavo had spent the last ten years adhering strictly to the orthodox code of family values — if he had remained faithfully celibate, if he had not taken a mistress and had children with her — then might not some of those now accusing him of murder be demanding that his Biblically ordained husbandly authority be respected?

This Congress would have eaten him alive had he bucked their will and gone to war without their acquiescence.

Their acquiescence reflected diplomatic imperatives: Confederates wanted Britain's support.

"So with their knowledge, and their acquiescence, the navy would hand the slaves over.

He bent the barons to his will, sometimes with their acquiescence and sometimes despite themselves.

"The U.S. wants to keep the trial focused on Saddam's crimes and not their acquiescence".

The politics extend as far as Alaska's remotest villages, where support from Native Alaskans, or at least their acquiescence, is essential to win several permits.

If her parents had agreed with her husband that the tube should be removed, would their acquiescence have somehow transubstantiated murder into mercy?

Their acquiescence opened a door Thursday afternoon for Davis to be released, a resolution Bunning sought after placing the the 49-year-old clerk behind bars.

They have no idea — not a clue — that their acquiescence is the source of Bobby's power, that they could destroy him by simply walking away.

According to two people who overheard the conversation, the reporter stepped up to both Mr. Steiger and Mr. Brauchli and said how disappointing their acquiescence had been.