The Zhou leaders had to yield to reality by establishing a rather weak control over the conquered territory.
Back on the city streets, the "combinatorics of sidewalk and subway" and the "forbidden geometry" of apartment buildings yield to reality: "from arabesque and pentacle and hexagon" we arrive, at last, at the "3-D" Airbnbs — actual, habitable versions of the places we imagined or glimpsed on a screen.
The Age of Exploration, which provoked an efflorescence of utopian writing, yielded to reality after the settlers started trying to split up the land.
Ultimately, the Fox Television case raises a dichotomy well known to linguists: descriptivism versus prescriptivism — that is, whether to yield to the reality of how language is actually used (descriptivism) or fight to maintain objective standards (prescriptivism).
The promise of Mr. Obama's victory would yield to the reality that a Republican president, and probably a Republican Congress, would be likely to undo significant parts of his agenda, starting with aspects of health care reform.
When Mitch McConnell took this practice to unprecedented levels after the election of Barack Obama, paralyzing the federal government, Reid first tried to reach a gentleman's agreement with McConnell, against the arguments of younger senators who through that the Senate's traditions had to yield to political reality.
What this case brings out in stark relief is the mindset of the Cro-Magnons at Homeland Security, and the deeply disturbing fact that in Bush's war on terror, civil liberties, freedoms and roughly 225 years of American law are seen as being trivial annoyances that must yield to "the reality on the ground".
When vital national interests are at stake, both consistency and moral certainty need to yield to the realities of a complex and interlocking world.
Short-term weakness in energy will yield again to reality, which means a smart investor focused on the big picture can take advantage of energy stocks on sale now at a stock market near you.
Short-term weakness in energy will yield again to reality, which means a smart investor focused on the big picture can take advantage of energy stocks on sale now at a stock market near you. (See No Speculation on Oil Reality.).
Yielding to the reality of life next door to the world's fastest rising political and economic power, Taiwan today lifted longtime restrictions on direct investment in China.
