She was shocked, of course, but she acquiesced to it.
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Once she acquiesced to his wishes, their history together was secured.
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He too often acquiesced to Mitch McConnell's torching of Senate norms.
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Blackbird acquiesced to Glove Guy's requests and got behind the wheel.
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Leonhart did not directly intervene, but "acquiesced" to Whaley's decision, it added.
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In the past, stage directors would quickly have acquiesced to conductors' demands.
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In all other cases, Jefferson acquiesced to Chief Justice John Marshall's rulings.
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He acquiesced to a deal that fell far short of his ambitions.
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And it's not as if Congress acquiesced to the practice of delaying statutes.
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Even Smith, who for years logged non-franchise hits, has acquiesced to this reality.
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Moira acquiesced to my demand for rest, and then we continued on, but slowly.
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Diallo acquiesced to the wishes of the man he had come to call father.
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Eventually, the president acquiesced to the first-year funding as part of larger legislation.
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While Macron repeatedly acquiesced to Trump's advances, Melania, at one point, appeared thoroughly uninterested.
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Some say that Democrats should not have acquiesced to voting for Trump's cabinet appointees.
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McDonald's agreed, and soon other major fast food chains and groceries acquiesced to their demands.
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I've acquiesced to these things as necessary compromise for a life in the big city.
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Even cable television, which has all too often acquiesced to Trump, largely ignored the spectacle.
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For years, Commissioner O'Neill has cravenly acquiesced to the Mayor and his anti-cop allies.
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I silently acquiesced to his needs and told myself that this was what I deserved.
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Because Ms. Caudill's mother broke down in tears, she acquiesced to a cycle of infusions.
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The Russians are probably intentionally implying that Turkey has acquiesced to whatever Moscow has proposed.
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She declined, but eventually acquiesced to a kiss on the cheek when he wouldn't back down.
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Apple acquiesced to Swift's demand, and agreed to pay royalties to everyone during its free trial.
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It was a time when LGBTQ people were treated like criminals and generally acquiesced to harassment.
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In exchange, Riyadh acquiesced to the Iran deal and began to follow Washington's lead on Syria.
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In 2004, though, the league acquiesced to Bonds as it has to no player before or since.
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Instead they will remember when Democrats acquiesced to, and even encouraged, Trump's push towards war with Iran.
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And you know, having three daughters, we sort of acquiesced to mom quite a bit on those decisions.
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He acquiesced to a radio host's request to discuss Mr. Trump's own daughter as a 'piece of a--.
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He acquiesced to a radio host's request to discuss Mr. Trump's own daughter as a 'piece of ass.
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Uthmeier also acquiesced to the department's demands that he refuse to answer questions about his conversations with Ross.
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But White House officials said Mr. Kushner acquiesced to the general's decision to remove him several weeks ago.
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However, despite the church's pleas, the government has not acquiesced to the church's request, according to the report.
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France's gilets jaunes protesters are also fighting for a higher minimum—and Emmanuel Macron has acquiesced to their demands.
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"Faced with these pressures, young women often acquiesced to young men's terms for romantic and sexual engagement," Thomas said.
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Scaramucci had to be fired -- and Trump acquiesced to new chief of staff John Kelly's request to do so.
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Now, Google has acquiesced to at least part of the workers' list of demands, overhauling its sexual harassment policies.
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He has acquiesced to some requests but refused others, leading to a tense moment last month on Capitol Hill.
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In 1872, Arlee, a Nez Percé by birth, acquiesced to the U.S. government's demands that the Bitterroot Salish relocate.
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The White House then acquiesced to bipartisan pressure and removed the hold weeks later, after it came to light.
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Mr. Garfunkel said the idea to use the song came from the campaign, but the duo "acquiesced" to the request.
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Another former student, Nicole Kelby, said he threatened to block the production of her play unless she acquiesced to sex.
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The religious right faces a reckoning, not just because members of its ranks supported, enabled or acquiesced to Mr. Trump.
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As the sole person who could unite the House, he acquiesced to be Speaker as a service to the country.
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Set aside the hypocrisy of America punishing Turkey for an offensive that Mr Trump himself acquiesced to earlier this month.
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This employee, and other TWC employees, believed that they would face adverse employment consequences unless they acquiesced to such demands.
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After Duca agreed to our interview, she also acquiesced to letting me sit in on the final day of the class.
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White Republicans acquiesced to Democrats' usurpation of power in the South in order to continue to compete as a national party.
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Last month the mayor acquiesced to the governor's demands that the city pay for half of the subway's emergency repair plan.
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Her relatives acquiesced to her decision two years ago to have a child even though she had not found a husband.
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And he sought to downplay Trump's endorsement on Wednesday, implying that Trump did so only because he acquiesced to the establishment.
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Since then, though, the U.S. has largely acquiesced to Assad's routine use of both conventional and chlorine-gas weapons on civilians.
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The gimmick forces Jenny to confront how she's acquiesced to indulging racist gimmicks, despite being the proud daughter of immigrant parents.
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After Duca agreed to our interview, she also acquiesced to letting me sit in on the final day of the class.
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In draft legislation last November the government seemed to have acquiesced to the community's demand for a 30 percent share of revenue.
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Hundreds of US internet services in China are already blocked, and the ones that remain available have completely acquiesced to the government.
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Trump, agreeable, seemingly acquiesced to the Democratic agenda: TRUMP: I have no problem — I think that's basically what Dick [Durbin] is saying.
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But with both countries now working to mend fences, Turkey last month acquiesced to Israel setting up representation at NATO's Brussels headquarters.
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Ms. Miles is so shy that she acquiesced to her first interview only two years ago, after the magazine Southern Living persisted.
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But simply because Pelosi acquiesced to that inexorable momentum does not mean that her concerns about the politics of impeachment had changed.
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The petition characterized the six young people as criminals incapable of redemption, and Dallas County District Attorney Faith Johnson acquiesced to the call.
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We have all acquiesced to the industry's sleek regimes, willfully commodifying our thoughts, relationships, and memories for a handful of Silicon Valley executives.
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In Washington, President Bush acquiesced to the term genocide and vowed "not on my watch" as Congress released billions in record humanitarian aid.
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But amid the Trump administration's increase of Southeast Asian deportations, Vietnam acquiesced to American pressure and, in 2017, began to accept Montagnard deportees.
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Mr. Mattis had only grudgingly acquiesced to orders to put forces along the southwestern border, according to two people familiar with his thinking.
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When Spiegel offered investors a chance to ride his coattails, enough of them acquiesced to the demands and delivered $218.32 billion of fresh capital.
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Even on requests that are eventually acquiesced to, Democratic aides told me the administration will often slow-roll those queries or provide nonresponsive answers.
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The Obama administration had acquiesced to some of these ideas, like premiums and cost sharing, but refused to budge on things like work requirements.
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In one of his final acts as governor, Greitens acquiesced to conservative demands and moved up the date for the referendum to August 7.
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"The process that Amazon required and that New York City acquiesced to forced cities to bid against one another in secret," Mr. Lander said.
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Presidents usually hold a holiday reception for the Washington press corps (even Mr. Trump acquiesced to one in 2017); this year's edition was canceled.
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By accepting the trope that paints public-housing tenants as feckless, we have acquiesced to their abuse and found justification for our own greed.
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The Democratic leader even said he had acquiesced to Trump's demands on the wall in a meeting on Friday and the offer was eventually spurned.
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Uber eventually acquiesced to California's basic requirements, but its scraps with lawmakers there put the company behind competitors like Waymo in real-world miles driven.
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Further, they said, it at best failed to define denuclearization and at worst acquiesced to the North Korean definition by mentioning the entire Korean Peninsula.
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But the protest over the speed-up didn't seem to make much sense to a leadership that had acquiesced to management's total control decades earlier.
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The special counsel never stopped asking for the interview, the source said, but when Mueller acquiesced to answers in writing, it was a game-changer.
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We acquiesced to every request, but even as I was on the flight to Istanbul, I felt uncertain we would get any access at all.
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Stripped of his power and freedom of movement, Prince Mohammed bin Nayef also appeared to have largely acquiesced to his successor's grip on the kingdom.
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Mr. Conyers, 88, the "dean" of the House and the longest-serving African-American representative in history, acquiesced to weeks of pressure from fellow Democrats.
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Although most men may not have wanted to dedicate two years of their life to active military service, draftees generally acquiesced to Uncle Sam's wishes.
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Vice President Mike Pence tweeted that Democrats "finally acquiesced to the voice of the American people," in allowing the vote on the new trade agreement.
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Finally, in mid-July, Trump acquiesced to Tillerson's request to be allowed to go to the region himself to conduct a round of shuttle diplomacy.
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Gates finally acquiesced to the idea of an initial public offering because the IPO would create a much wider, more liquid market for the company's shares.
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Even later, as much of the country acquiesced to the greed-is-good eighties and the end-of-history nineties, Esalen clung to its exceptionalist vibe.
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It has acquiesced to the radical and reckless trade policies of this administration and no longer has any credibility to tout the virtues of free trade.
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And by and large, the networks have acquiesced to the demand, staffing up to review more content by hand since algorithms can only do so much.
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But on August 2400th Mr Trump finally acquiesced to the plan set out by his national security team to send 3,500-5,000 additional troops to Afghanistan.
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NFL owners acquiesced to Trump's demands and passed a policy for the coming season requiring players to stand for the anthem or remain off the field.
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Around this time, Barneys also opened its first physical Warehouse location, a sign that the company had finally acquiesced to growing consumer demand for bargain goods.
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It is also clear that the silence of many Republicans who have acquiesced to him also are playing a role in the demise of conservative ideology.
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"In the past, we've acquiesced to failure, and have not done things that we know were within our power to accomplish," he said at the meeting.
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While NHTSA acquiesced to Google's request that its self-driving system be treated as a legal driver, it did not agree on the vehicle interior appeals.
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But when he signed with the Mets in 2005, he acquiesced to the team's wishes and joined his teammates on the field when it was played.
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The furor over an N.B.A. executive's support of the Hong Kong protests is the latest case in which an American company has acquiesced to Chinese demands.
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But on August 2400th Mr Trump finally acquiesced to the plan set out by his national security team to send around 250,500-5,000 additional troops to Afghanistan.
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For example, both acquiesced to governing under the Hastert Rule, where the Speaker attempts to pass legislation by getting the majority within of the party in power.
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As a way to save face, Obama acquiesced to a Russian proposal for Assad to remove or destroy all his chemical weapons by the middle of 2014.
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In her iconic work of feminist philosophy, The Second Sex (21808), the philosopher asserted that Le Brun's paintings acquiesced to societal expectations regarding a woman's self-image.
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A Republican House and Senate acquiesced to many demands by Treasury in exchange for the right to be able to name a majority of the control board.
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Angela Merkel of Germany and Emmanuel Macron of France acquiesced to a request to accompany Mrs May into the summit before the cameras in a show of solidarity.
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Congress has essentially acquiesced to that interpretation, however, by continuing to fund military operations against the Islamic State without enacting any separate authorization to use force against it.
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Some carmakers, like Ford, have long acquiesced to the joint venture rule, but have struggled to keep up with the pace and particular demands of the Chinese market.
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The fact of the matter is that the mainline churches, which for the most part acquiesced to popular social trends, have had the greatest decrease in church attendance.
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Bosses rewarded those who acquiesced to their advances by doling out cushier jobs or punished those who spurned them, requiring them to do more taxing, even dangerous work.
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Now Uber, which first announced plans to apply for the permit last week, has brought its self-driving cars back to California and acquiesced to the state's rules.
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Phillips provides powerful insight into the motives of the various class and business sectors in the county's white community, which conducted, acquiesced to or benefited from the terror.
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The Mets acquiesced to Noah Syndergaard when he refused to take a magnetic resonance imaging exam in April; they should have kept him from pitching until he did.
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And yet, rather than focus all its energies internally, Iran's government acquiesced to—and quite possibly directed—an attack campaign by allied Iraqi militias on Americans inside Iraq.
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Politico reported Monday that advisers for at least three campaigns have already acquiesced to a Sanders win in Nevada and are instead playing for second and third place.
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He tapped Vice President Mike Pence to helm the response and acquiesced to a bipartisan congressional demand for more emergency funding than the White House had previously requested.
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As soon as Mondelez International finally acquiesced to one activist, Trian, by giving it a seat on the board, Mr. Ackman, of Pershing Square Capital Management, showed up.
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This makes it all the more disappointing that it acquiesced to the Saudi demand, seemingly out of a desire not to be shut out of a new market.
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While other major carmakers like GM have acquiesced to China's manufacturing rules, Tesla has resisted partnering with local carmakers, and has been pushing the government there for an exemption.
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They have, however, passed military appropriations bills that earmark funds for the effort against the Islamic State, which could suggest that lawmakers have acquiesced to the executive branch's theory.
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Now that the GOP has acquiesced to Trump, the anti-Trump Republicans who emerged in the run-up to the 2016 election, like Brooks and Frum, are political orphans.
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In the end, Trump acquiesced to a compromise of $28503 billion for barriers, on par with what was offered before the shutdown, and well below the amount he demanded.
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The 49ers' defense has acquiesced to a 100-yard rusher for an N.F.L.-record seven consecutive games, and the Cardinals cannot wait to see 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick again.
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Japan acquiesced to direct, two-way trade talks with the United States, dropping its two-year insistence on trying instead to hammer out a pact that included multiple countries.
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The White House initially demanded $5 billion for the construction project in 2018, before it acquiesced to the lower figure from Democrats amid the longest-ever federal government shutdown.
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Congress has repeatedly acquiesced to unilateral military deployments by presidents, and courts have generally stayed out of disputes about them, creating an ambiguous situation that has fueled recurring debates.
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" He also addresses the fact that the footage was deliberately withheld from Thurman at the time: "Uma thought I had acquiesced to them not letting her see the footage.
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This year he acquiesced to two budget deals — laced with extraneous spending and special-interest tax breaks — that will add another $2.2 trillion to the deficit over the decade.
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"If I had known of all of Mr. Giuliani's dealings or of his associations with individuals now under criminal indictment, I would not have acquiesced to his participation," Sondland said.
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The sailors acquiesced to Iranian demands that they eat and act happy while being filmed in order to be released, and one captain read an apology prepared by the Iranians.
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But questions about why the Navy has acquiesced to it are likely to dog Mr. Shanahan when he goes before the Senate for his confirmation hearing in the coming weeks.
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Washington has not acquiesced to Russia's efforts to exert control over Ukraine, with Moscow's attempts to maintain influence throughout the former Soviet Union one of its main foreign policy goals.
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But after the Kurds acquiesced to those two transfers, they stopped cooperating with the United States in anger at what they saw as Mr. Trump's betrayal, according to American officials.
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Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison finally acquiesced to widespread calls to pay volunteer firefighters on Sunday, announcing a new scheme allowing NSW volunteers to claim up to $1003,000 in compensation.
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Ultimately, the Democrats relented on all three issues — the crime bill, the civil rights bill, and the water projects — and even acquiesced to temporary funding for Nicaragua's anti-communist Contra guerrillas.
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" Indeed, it says Goguen "acquiesced" to the "$40 million that [Baptiste] was arbitrarily demanding " on a variety of conditions, including that she "stay away from Mr. Goguen and stop her harassment.
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A discovery hearing in the case was scheduled for Wednesday, but it's unclear if the hearing is still necessary now that Bates has acquiesced to the prosecutor's request for the recordings.
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The same Republican officials who acquiesced to Trump during the campaign trail are now shrinking from any sense of responsibility to promote pluralism or obligation to reject threats to the constitution.
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In early November 1978, he acquiesced to the arrest of dozens of former officials, among them Hoveyda, recently dismissed from office, whom his rivals denounced as responsible for the regime's greed.
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But in its rhetoric, the administration has acquiesced to the core misconception of the CRA — that its pressure is necessary for banks to serve creditworthy but low-income communities and households.
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Busy trying to forge the relationship with President Trump he never had, Tillerson acquiesced to the steady dismemberment of the State Department through budget cuts, unfilled posts and disrespect of expertise.
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And this is not the first time that city officials have acquiesced to demands from these groups, such as easing guidelines around a circumcision practice that health officials felt was dangerous.
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The EU claims that last December Mrs May acquiesced to a backstop that keeps Northern Ireland in the customs union and single market even if the rest of the country leaves both.
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While the Republican right has, often grudgingly, acquiesced to federal enforcement of civil rights, it continues to emulate Goldwater's blend of laissez-faire economics and support for a robust national security state.
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But unable to stop that surge, Democrats quickly acquiesced to the new reality — taking corporate donations for congressional races, setting up dark money Super PACs, and allowing lobbyists to underwrite their conventions.
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After the two sides failed to come to a long-term agreement last summer, both parties acquiesced to a one-year, $20 million contract once Wade began negotiations seeking a max deal.
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Have no doubts about how hard a line the unions are taking, as they struck for a second day after the legislature acquiesced to their demands, just to drive home their message.
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While Trump responded by canceling Pelosi's use of a military vehicle for an overseas trip, he eventually acquiesced to her request and agreed to reschedule the speech after the shutdown had ended.
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While Kelly has not sought to stop Trump from tweeting, he has encouraged the President to allow him to vet the tweets before posting them -- a request Trump has sometimes acquiesced to.
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As speaker, Pelosi now is situated to lead Democratic opposition to Trump's agenda and carry out investigations of his administration following two years during which congressional Republicans largely acquiesced to the president.
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The Commonwealth does not seem minded to reinvent itself, either: Last week it acquiesced to the queen's "sincere wish" that Prince Charles will one day inherit the nonhereditary position as its head.
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Matthew Continetti sees hypocrisy in granting Mr. Cook this award after Apple acquiesced to a Chinese government request to remove The New York Times from the Chinese version of the App Store.
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As I previously testifed, if I had known of all of Mr. Giuliani's dealings or of his associations with individuals now under criminal indictment, I would not have acquiesced to his participation.
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As I previously testified, if I had known of all of Mr. Giuliani's dealings or of his associations with individuals now under criminal indictment, I would not have acquiesced to his participation.
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Most automakers have acquiesced to the joint venture rule and partnered up with Chinese manufacturers to skirt that import tax, so that they can keep costs low for customers and access the market.
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But it also portrays in Comey an FBI director who showed trepidation and guarded suspicion in his interactions with a potential investigation target -- and who strangely acquiesced to the President's demands for assurances.
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"I will not acquiesce to an imperial court any more than our founders acquiesced to an imperial British monarch," Huckabee said in June, after the Supreme Court ruled in favor of marriage equality.
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In August 2017, Trump acquiesced to the status quo playbook, repackaged by outgoing National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster, which called for one more (the fifth so far) "mini-surge," or escalation, in Afghanistan.
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Now, as then, just a few companies have taken control, and this concentration of power—which Americans have acquiesced to without ever really intending to, simply by clicking away—is subverting our democracy.
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China's neighbors have acquiesced to Beijing's claims to the airspace above the East China Sea and have stood by as it embarked on a long-term project to militarize the South China Sea.
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So far, Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam has acquiesced to one: the full withdrawal of the bill that would have allowed extradition to mainland China, and which sparked the protests in June.
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While the board clearly should have asked harder questions and not acquiesced to university administrators, now is not the time for mass resignations or removals, which will further destabilize an already troubled institution.
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To make that move, they knowingly dealt with housing discrimination and acquiesced to borrowing at an incredibly high rate for their new home, despite having good credit and being gainfully-employed city police officers.
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Whatever swayed the president, he largely accommodated Pelosi's requests from the call: Pelosi asked Trump to tweet that he would halt the planned deportations, which he acquiesced to, a senior Democratic aide told Vox.
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The political points he might have earned were quickly knocked off the board as he and a string of top aides acquiesced to the Kremlin's claims that Trump accepted Putin's denial of election interference.
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"It appears that the government has not had any issue with the wall being painted, did not object to the art until recently, and, therefore, acquiesced to the creation of this artwork," Baum said.
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But The Times reported that Egypt, along with other Arab nations, had quietly acquiesced to Mr. Trump's decision last month to recognize Jerusalem as the Israeli capital and to move the U.S. Embassy there.
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Capote considered purchasing either the Spanish villa or another house nearby but acquiesced to Dunphy, who loved to ski and was eager to return to Verbier, Switzerland where they had previously spent several winters.
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Israeli officials note that when Mr. Netanyahu acquiesced to a 10-month settlement freeze sought by Mr. Obama in 2009, the Palestinians still did not agree to negotiate until just before time ran out.
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A second source, who asked not to be named, said RBS Greenwich bosses were uncomfortable with the loss of authority over U.S marks but acquiesced to avoid clashes with more senior executives in Britain.
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I'm not sure all of them will pass but in the past we've acquiesced to failure and have not done things that we know were within our power to accomplish, like the Fix NICS Bill.
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While saying Netanyahu acquiesced to Lieberman's demand to be appointed defense minister, the political sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity, noted that other issues remained unresolved and a deal has yet to be finalized.
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Weinstein, as one of the industry's most powerful gatekeepers, was allegedly more likely to oblige if the women met him at a hotel — ostensibly for "work reasons" — and then acquiesced to his sexually explicit requests.
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The performance tells the story of your expecting to take a female friend to the prom, only to find that she had acquiesced to her parents' desire that she go with someone who was white.
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At the same time, he has embraced China as an economic and security ally and acquiesced to Chinese demands to resolve territorial disputes in the South China Sea through direct talks rather than international arbitration.
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Liu had advocated for a recommendation of no prison time, but later told her bosses that she acquiesced to prosecutors under her who were pushing for a harder line, the person briefed on the matter said.
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Despite the abuses, Nicaragua's traditional elite (the country is one of the poorest and most unequal in the hemisphere) mostly acquiesced to the dictatorship because it promised stability and implemented economic policies favorable to their interests.
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But in recent decades, the right's elites have despaired of censoring pornography, acquiesced to the spread of casino gambling, made peace with the creeping commercialization of marijuana, and accepted the internet's conquest of childhood and adolescence.
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Things that wear on him like an angle grinder, but he has acquiesced to because "life is cruel and unfair" and sometimes all you can do is sigh when the gravity in your world gets altered.
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However, if you've long ago acquiesced to the fact that your online world filled with free and useful services is powered by your willingness to share your personal data, well…Slice's price drop watching extension it is.
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He's not quite sprinting into the 21st century, but he is making an effort to inject some youth into his brand and he finally acquiesced to modernity and announced (Tuesday) that he would be joining Twitter (today).
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But by the end of his administration, he had acquiesced to white racism and financial power, largely withdrawing from the South and leaving its black citizens at the mercy of a reinvigorated class of owners and planters.
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For years, companies have acquiesced to China with little notice, as happened with Marriott, the Gap, Versace and United Airlines for references to Hong Kong or Taiwan that Beijing saw as implicit endorsements of those territories' independence.
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The two sides spent the last few months of 2018 arguing in various international courts over whether Jia properly acquiesced to Evergrande's terms and whether Evergrande breached the investment agreement by withholding the rest of the money.
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The goalposts on who Wade has deferred to has shifted, from LeBron to Chris Bosh to Goran Dragic, and in fits and starts—he is, habitually, an alpha dog—but he has acquiesced to all but the latest.
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Unlike his predecessor, Jim Mattis, Mr. Shanahan had largely acquiesced to the White House on a wide range of issues, including Mr. Trump's recent decisions to deploy 2,500 troops to the Persian Gulf to counter the influence of Iran.
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For years, Richardson had acquiesced to the Nixon White House, even though he and his staff had serious policy differences with the President, such as over Nixon's refusal to back a more ambitious busing policy and universal child care.
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The Cavaliers acquiesced to his request for a trade and he ended up in Boston, where the Celtics were coming off a trip to the Eastern Conference finals and appeared primed for championship contention with Irving in the fold.
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"The process that Amazon dictated — and that New York City acquiesced to — kept the public in the dark and encouraged a race-to-the-bottom of needless corporate tax breaks," Lander, the council's deputy leader for policy, said in a statement.
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A comforting answer to the first question could be that the urban attacks reflect the increased pressure the Taliban have been under in rural areas since Donald Trump acquiesced to his generals' call for more troops and a fiercer air campaign.
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Instead, what should trouble the American people most is whether this incident will lead investigators to evidence that Trump acquiesced to and accepted help from Russia, based on the Kremlin's interference in the heart of America's democracy, its presidential elections.
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He acquiesced to Lenin's confiscation of his art because he felt the new Soviet state would protect it during unpredictable times, as Russia neared civil war; his daughter Ekaterina Keller was appointed the State Museum of New Western Art's first curator.
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Rosenstein has faced subpoenas and a barrage of criticism from three committees, and he's mostly acquiesced to their demands for specific documents after facing pressure from House Republicans who have had the backing of House Speaker Paul Ryan, a Wisconsin Republican.
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"Steve Bullock ran his administration like a frat house and acquiesced to the far left during his comical presidential run, not exactly the strongest way to launch a Senate campaign," National Republican Senatorial Committee spokesman Nathan Brand said in a statement.
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Critics of Mr. Trump's Syria policy have said the president, by telling Mr. Erdogan that he would order American troops to pull back from positions along the border where they had fought alongside Syrian Kurds, essentially acquiesced to the Turkish offensive.
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We are, for better or worse, at a point where the majority of lawmakers have basically acquiesced to the administration's interpretation of the law when it comes to war, and again, this goes back to the George W. Bush era.
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During closing arguments, Weinstein's lawyer, Donna Rotunno, ripped into the prosecution, saying prosecutors, "created a universe that strips adult women of common sense, autonomy and responsibility," arguing Weinstein's accusers acquiesced to sex because they thought it would advance their careers.
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Even though Mr. Shanahan has denied knowing about the White House directive, questions about why the Navy initially acquiesced to it are likely to dog him when he goes before the Senate for his confirmation hearing in the coming weeks.
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Coming from some of the most influential powers in the dispute, the plea for a negotiated solution may be aimed at an earlier refusal by Qatar's adversaries to discuss renewing ties with Doha until it first acquiesced to a list of demands.
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"Blurred thoughts and the emotion of the moment" Bork, who died in 2012, was constantly challenged on whether he steadied the Justice Department amid a constitutional crisis, as he insisted, or simply acquiesced to a president caught in the vice of Watergate.
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Qaddafi's 42-year reign was enabled by oil revenue and by the Western companies that acquiesced to him when the country was not under U.N. sanctions; with a population of just six million, Libya holds the world's ninth largest reserves of oil.
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My Amendment, which was stripped, would have cut off $$ for any offensive attack against Iran including against officials like Soleimani /1 No American president since Nixon has acquiesced to limits on their ability to use military force when they wanted to use it.
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"While many voters hoped Obama's policies might represent a dramatic change along the lines of the New Deal, instead Obama acquiesced to emergency considerations and ideological blandishments aimed at tempering expectations and a return to 'normalcy,'" Eric Rauchway wrote in the Boston Review.
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The United States has rejected Russia&aposs claim of sovereignty over Crimea and decried its "occupation" — but California-headquartered Apple has acquiesced to the Russian government&aposs request for it to be portrayed as Russian territory in services like Apple Maps and Weather.
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Could a Republican Party whose leadership seemed committed to diversifying its white male base really nominate someone who called Mexicans "rapists" in his announcement speech, described women as "fat" and "ugly" and acquiesced to his own daughter's being described as a "piece of ass"?
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In the pre-Sopranos days, HBO said it didn't particularly care about Nielsen ratings, until it finally acquiesced to Nielsen's measurements, and it's not as though there aren't plenty of other corporations in the world that insist independent statistics don't reflect their internal data.
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For example, when Dave Bowman, the astronaut played by Keir Dullea, deactivates the supercomputer HAL, the machine asks Bowman if he'd like to hear a song ("Daisy Bell," from 1892.) Before the restoration (or unrestoration), Mr. Nolan thought Bowman acquiesced to break the tension.
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Grealish concedes the company's growth rate would be much more impressive if she worked more than 20 to 30 hours a week (which she and her salespeople do on occasion) and if she acquiesced to the requests to place people in more traditional, full-time roles.
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The latest was the reversal by U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland, who now admits in four new pages of updated testimony that he told a senior Ukrainian official that Ukraine would not receive U.S. military aid unless it acquiesced to Trump's demands for investigations.
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The Republican-led Congress, which has acquiesced to Trump on matters large and small, allowed funding for the Children's Health Insurance Program, which serves nine million low- and moderate-income children, to lapse for an unprecedented four months, using it as a bargaining chip in budget negotiations with Democrats.
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A quarter of a century ago, unions reluctantly acquiesced to Nafta based on the premise that American workers would get the better end of the deal — new high-skilled, well-paid jobs in a regional supply chain that sent only its low-skill, low-wage bits south of the border.
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The first contrast lies in the development of American feminism, which has acquiesced to certain trends that it found troubling 30 years ago — including not only the ubiquity of pornography but also the practice of surrogacy, the class-bound commodification of childbearing, that Atwood's Gilead biblicizes and places under patriarchal control.
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Facebook isn't the only company presenting novel threats to individual privacy, of course; Apple, for example, quickly acquiesced to demands from the Chinese government that foreign firms planning to collect data from Chinese citizens establish data farms in China and cooperate with Chinese authorities when they want to review that data.
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" In fact, "the threat to Israel posed by Iran in Syrian territory has motivated Israeli leaders to seek accommodation with Russia," the report states, adding: "Although Russia has acquiesced to the Israeli campaign against Iran, there are few signs of a wider divergence between Moscow and Tehran regarding aims or tactics in Syria.
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"During the negotiations, early on, they [the Iranians] said listen, we need you to lay off Hezbollah, to tamp down the pressure on them, and the Obama administration acquiesced to that request…It was a strategic decision to show good faith toward the Iranians in terms of reaching an agreement," a former CIA officer told Politico.
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No, but Americans have only acquiesced to dramatic increases in the scope and power of government in extreme situations—in economic crises like that in the 1930s, which affected the middle as well as the bottom of society; in the face of militant insurgencies that threatened social disruption (as occurred in the 1960s); or in time of war.
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"In email after email, Acosta and the lead federal prosecutor, A. Marie Villafaña, acquiesced to Epstein's legal team's demands, which often focused on ways to limit the scandal by shutting out his victims and the media, including suggesting that the charges be filed in Miami, instead of Palm Beach, where Epstein's victims lived," the article notes.
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If the U.S. chose instead to ignore WTO rules, if China acquiesced to it, and if their actions pursuant to their bilateral deal harmed their other trading partners, the two countries could each face the possibility of losing billions of dollars annually in their current trade benefits from other WTO members through lawful economic sanctions authorized by the WTO.
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I spoke to Cohn this week about his role in challenging Navarro, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, and ultimately the president over their dedication to tariffs as a tool in trade negotiations: Sources say Cohn internally acquiesced to putting tariffs on washing machines and solar panels but fought tooth and nail, and ultimately resigned, over Trump's decision to impose massive tariffs on steel and aluminum.
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Richard Rubin, Siobhan Hughes and Kristina Peterson of The WSJ note three of the big ones: [T]he income cutoffs for individual tax brackets, the size of the child tax credit and which rules apply to a 25 percent tax rate for businesses such as partnerships that pay taxes through their owners' individual tax returns Things we do know: House Republicans have acquiesced to President Trump's wishes and plan to cut the top corporate tax rate to 20 percent immediately, rather than phase in the reduction over five years.
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While choosing his words carefully, Murphy made clear — by his own account — that Ukraine currently enjoyed bipartisan support for its U.S. aid but that could be jeopardized if the new president acquiesced to requests by President Trump's lawyer Rudy GiulianiRudy GiulianiMurphy: Background check talks continue despite Trump Ukraine criticism Hacker changes Seattle road sign to say 'Impeach the bastard' Pence: Trump has been 'completely vindicated' with Ukraine call readout MORE to investigate past corruption allegations involving Americans, including former Vice President Joe BidenJoe BidenWhistleblower complaint declassified on eve of high-stakes testimony Ocasio-Cortez on impeachment: 'I think the ground has shifted' Democrats ask Pentagon to probe delayed Ukraine aid MORE's family.
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