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yielding surrendering succumbing capitulating submitting conceding bowing quitting acquiescing folding acceding backpedaling(US) backpedalling(UK) blinking budging weakening giving in knuckling under caving in backing down lessening diminishing abating decreasing subsiding dwindling declining waning ebbing easing receding moderating shrinking falling tapering lowering remitting palling slackening retracting reversing changing rethinking backtracking recanting about-facing changing your mind backing off changing mind dooing an about-face doing an about-turn doing a U-turn going back reconsidering deciding against having second thoughts pitying sympathising(UK) sympathizing(US) showing mercy showing pity having mercy having pity going easy on lightening up becoming merciful easing up on giving quarter giving some slack taking a softer line becoming lenient coming around coming round taking pity on feeling sorry for helping helping out showing compassion towards showing sympathy for having mercy on showing mercy to putting someone out of their misery reneging breaking backing out pulling out defaulting on going back on copping out failing to honour breaking promise breaking your word flip-flopping felling accepting allowing granting approving assenting complying consenting endorsing engaging okaying permitting recognising(UK) recognizing(US) undertaking astipulating complying with comprobating agreeing to thawing melting liquefying softening dissolving unfreezing deliquescing fluxing fusing liquifying running defrosting unthawing warming flowing loosening mollifying unbending becoming liquid becoming soft letting up ending ceasing stopping finishing terminating halting discontinuing concluding closing elapsing lapsing passing expiring determining going desisting dying touching disarming relaxing affecting moving forgiving surrender submission capitulation acquiescence resignation defeat fall accedence buckling dedition cave-in giving way abatement diminution ebb moderation wane slowing fading fade attenuation relaxation dying away dying down More

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It was a great relenting on the part of YouTube.
It seems that the Europeans, led by Germany, are relenting.
"That's what I'm worried about," he said grimly before relenting.
But the jokes aren't showing any signs of relenting anytime soon.
Exhaustion. In the book, contestants describe relenting after hours of interviews.
There is little sign of those flows relenting any time soon.
Huffman struggled with the offer for weeks before relenting, she wrote.
The professor looked at him as if he were mad before relenting.
Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, praised Mr. Trump for relenting.
The pressure on Mr. Moran at home showed no sign of relenting.
That won lots of press coverage but didn't move Speaker Paul Ryan into relenting.
That's when pledges start relenting and doing things outside their comfort zones, he said.
But relenting to others' critiques is not the way of the Trump White House.
Back in March, Trump balked at signing the gigantic $1.3 trillion omnibus package before relenting.
Guatemala had refused to sign the deal as well, until relenting under economic pressure Friday.
Margery smiled, relenting, at her daughter and twisted her wedding ring, loose on her finger.
But according to Martin Ellis, Halifax's housing economist, there are some signs of prices relenting.
By about October, China won't have many other options besides relenting and subsidizing American imports.
" Wendy's Co: "I've been liking Wendy's for a long time and I'm not relenting one bit!
But they were a tempestuous pair: Jayalalithaa twice booted Ms Sasikala from her house before relenting.
It initially removed the tipping option as part of this change, before relenting and adding it back.
Tensions are high, with some parents still refusing to vaccinate because of health fears, and others relenting.
He had argued against it as vehemently as one could without starting an actual fight, before relenting.
The coming week may tell whether the incessant plunge in global bond yields shows any signs of relenting.
" He smiled faintly, relenting: "I know, I get it—the couch is what makes it a TV show.
Relenting to growing outrage, Trump signed a hurriedly drafted executive order that addresses children being separated from their families.
The PTM activists awaiting trial have belatedly been granted bail, possibly a sign that the army is relenting slightly.
Martin Dempsey was up for re-nomination in 2013, McCain briefly threatened to hold up his confirmation before relenting.
Confronted with consistent, passionate opposition from the public, Republicans aren't relenting their attacks on people with pre-existing conditions.
By late afternoon, Republicans said they still intended to conduct business, but the Democrats showed no sign of relenting.
It is a time to fight without relenting for the idea of Paris against the rise of nationalist bigotry.
After relenting, Cramer issued a statement claiming, remarkably, that Trump had "deputized" him to help manage the bidding process.
She rebuffed them all before relenting to the Academy Award-winning directorial team of Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman.
In every film, Jones is ultimately saved not by whip-cracking bravado but by his finally relenting and standing down.
The eruption, over a month old now, shows no signs of relenting, and could very well last months — or longer.
Most provinces support the idea, but Alberta and Quebec, always steadfast defenders of provincial prerogative, show no signs of relenting.
Cookie, betrayed, isn't relenting, and Lucious, as usual, says some patronizing things that are supposed to come off as sincere.
The policy changes prompted complaints from American business groups and diplomats, but the government has shown no sign of relenting.
But of course after nonstop media coverage of the family separation and the public outcry that followed, Trump ended up relenting.
Relenting to his taunt, I pulled out my phone and pressed a button that posed a terrifying question: Share location indefinitely?
A restless night of sleep takes hold of me, only relenting when the clocks endless noise becomes one of an alarm.
But it's hard to say that the U.S. has the upper hand because China is not showing any signs of relenting.
Rather, A Strange Loop is about how we twist ourselves into knots resisting and relenting to society's expectations of our potential.
That means it's now up to Trump to make headway with Kim, who so far has shown no signs of relenting.
After Mr. McCain died, Mr. Trump waited days to issue a proclamation marking the senator's death, relenting only under enormous pressure.
But the undisputed king of mayo goes back almost a century in Japan, where, far from relenting, Kewpiemania is only ramping up.
But Ravi Menon, managing director of MAS, discouraged the idea that the government was relenting on the measures, which investors have criticized.
Trump makes rare trip to Clinton state, hoping to win back New Hampshire MORE (R-Ariz.) earlier this week, before relenting Friday.
Finally, her crew called her over to the boat and told her the weather forecast showed the winds picking up, rather than relenting.
The United States remains locked in its longest war to date, a 16-year venture in Afghanistan that shows no signs of relenting.
New CDC data released Thursday provides hope that the major contributors to three years of stagnant or declining life expectancy may be relenting.
Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer of New York blocked many of Trump's key transportation nominees for months over the issue before relenting last month.
China, the world's biggest buyer of soybeans, has previously targeted the crop in the trade war, only relenting when negotiations appeared to be progressing.
The president showed no signs of relenting on his demand for more than $5 billion to build part of a barrier on the border.
Relenting to pressure, President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing the Department of Homeland Security (which oversees CBP) to keep detained families together.
The House has left Washington for its July Fourth recess, but Democrats have no intention of relenting in their push for tougher gun laws.
Senate Democratic Leader Charles Schumer of New York blocked many of Trump's key transportation nominees for months over the issue before relenting in February.
Showing no sign of relenting, in recent days Mr Trump brought his battle to keep his books closed to the United States Supreme Court.
Senator Democratic Leader Charles Schumer of New York blocked many of Trump's key transportation nominees for months over the issue before relenting last month.
There were no signs of relenting, not with front office smarts and a mega-market budget and barrels of talent in the minor leagues.
Mr. Trump ran against Nafta during the 2016 campaign, threatening to tear up the deal before relenting and demanding a new trade agreement instead.
Dennis Ross — have hinted recently at relenting in the fight over Planned Parenthood by urging GOP leaders to drop political issues from the bill.
China, the world's biggest buyer of soybeans, has previously targeted the crop in the trade war, only relenting when negotiations appeared to be progressing.
China, the world's biggest buyer of soybeans, has previously targeted the crop in the trade war, only relenting when trade negotiations appeared to be progressing.
But Maduro showed little sign of relenting on aid, as a bridge linking Colombia and Venezuela remained blocked with a cistern and two shipping containers.
In the case of Facebook, users ended up relenting and accepting the new reality (as users almost always do when Facebook makes a sudden change).
The company forced everyone to switch from Facebook Chat to Messenger years ago, but some people are only now relenting and actually downloading the app.
"The Kremlin will continue its relenting assault on its targets, including its attempts to directly manipulate and exploit the US justice system," the report reads.
Director Richard Shepard says that Hannah's choice (whether it be consenting or relenting) was a key point for him in creating a complex conversation around consent.
Mr. Trump, who said he was invoking emergency powers to impose tariffs of up to 25 percent on all Mexican goods, showed no signs of relenting.
Last year, as allegations swirled around movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, Mr. Cuomo initially said he would keep past donations from him as well, before finally relenting.
In February, the arrest of an 18-year-old accused of planning a high school shooting shook Scott into relenting on his longtime opposition to gun regulation.
Johnson told CNN she had visited Moore's law office in Gadsden, Alabama, with her mother after relenting to her mother's wishes to take custody of the child.
PUNTA ARENAS, Chile — A weather window opened on Halloween morning, the typical stiff winds and polar fog relenting, and the flight to Antarctica was cleared for takeoff.
"This only shows we are not relenting on our campaign," Chief Albayalde said in an interview, adding that the violent week reflected the police carrying out their mandate.
But Hoyer would not rule out relenting on Democrats' insistence that the language be changed, echoing similar comments last week by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.).
Mondelez International, the parent company of Nabisco, has redesigned the packaging of its Barnum's Animals crackers after relenting to pressure from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
Still, Trump has shown no signs of relenting on his tariff strategy, repeatedly defending the maneuver in public as effective leverage in his dealings with both Mexico and China.
Southeast Asia and India are currently enduring a historic and brutal heat wave that has already been blamed for more than 150 deaths and shows few signs of relenting.
Impeachment Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has stepped up to force House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's hand in the upcoming senate impeachment trial, and she's not relenting without a fight.
But the Texas senator isn't relenting from his attacks on Trump, maintaining that the GOP front-runner won't win the nomination and accusing Trump of ducking from additional debates.
The company for a long time had an internal desire to not clutter the site with advertisements, before finally relenting in 2016 and accepting its first ad placement from Uber.
After slowly unfurling the tool last fall, Google is going strong, placing it at the center of its strategy to claim the ad type that shows no signs of relenting.
That's the vision that Four Growers has laid out as it seeks to sell its robots to farms already squeezed by a labor shortage that shows no sign of relenting.
In 2005, Ms. Miller was jailed for 85 days for refusing to testify and reveal her confidential source about the identity of a former C.I.A. operative, Valerie Plame, before relenting.
Representative Mark Meadows, Republican of North Carolina and the chairman of the House Freedom Caucus, said Mr. Trump was doing himself "major" political damage by relenting in the wall fight.
Three people familiar with the selection said it had been in the works for months and one of the people said General Abizaid turned down the job twice before relenting.
But there is a political benefit to Democrats relenting: It finally allows them to "eliminate a distracting talking point" from Trump and his supporters and drum up public support for impeachment.
Human rights advocates expressed worry that the United States, in the interest of saving money, would not block such cuts — or would compromise by relenting on at least some of them.
Soldiers shot and killed dozens of unarmed protesters from a minority Muslim religious group, and the military lashed out at Unicef, briefly ordering the group out of the country before relenting.
The scene gets so real, director Daniel Minahan zooms in on Jeff carving into his own leg before relenting thanks to the unimaginable pain we can all assume the sailor is in.
The shutdown stretched into its 13th day Friday, with no signs of either side relenting on their stance over Trump's request for additional funding for a border wall, even after the meeting.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday pushed her party's leadership elections past Thanksgiving, relenting to pressure from frustrated members who are questioning the Democratic Party's direction after a disastrous election result.
In a posted response, Greenpeace denied that they were the main reason Golden Rice has failed to come to market, but still showed no signs of relenting on their broader anti-GMO campaign.
" Meyer responded to the criticism not by relenting but by urging rival coaches to match his efforts, telling a radio host that the conference needed "to keep pushing that envelope to be better.
And for years, he had steadfastly refused to support an increase in the state's gas tax to help finance the depleted transportation fund used to finance transit projects, relenting only late last year.
In July, the stubborn metric showed signs of relenting, slipping to 2.6 percent, though Bank of England Governor Mark Carney said in August that inflation is likely to first track higher before dipping.
After dark, he would talk and talk about how stupid or how uncapable I was without relenting for all the others to hear — it was probably the worst couple days of my life.
After relenting and joining in the deal, Iraq's oil minister raised eyebrows in March when he said his country could raise output to 5 million barrels a day in the second half of 2017.
Iranian clubs on that occasion also threatened to boycott the competition before relenting, with matches involving teams from the two countries played in Oman and, until a Saudi-led diplomatic dispute in June 2017, Qatar.
Pelosi refused to hand the articles over to the Senate for weeks, relenting only after committees in the House received a cache of additional information from Lev Parnas, an associate of Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani.
But with its ranks worn down by fighting and the demands of a fierce existential war showing no signs of relenting, there are concerns that Iraq's army cannot fit in as much training as it needs.
This is a huge issue with people with intractable chronic pain, as the pain often was originally a result of an injury that has long-since healed but there is no sign of the pain relenting.
"What may be right for places like the large urban areas may not be right at this particular point in time for the" smaller counties with fewer cases, Abbott said last week before relenting on Tuesday.
Hong Kong has fallen into recession, hit by more than five months of anti-government protests that show no signs of relenting, and is unlikely to achieve annual economic growth this year, the city's Financial Secretary said.
Hong Kong has fallen into recession, hit by more than five months of protests that show no sign of relenting, and is unlikely to achieve annual economic growth this year, the city's Financial Secretary said on Sunday.
Hong Kong has fallen into recession, hit by more than five months of protests that show no sign of relenting, and is unlikely to achieve annual economic growth this year, the city's financial secretary said on Sunday.
The Interior Ministry said it had not granted approval for the sit-in and riot police initially blocked roads and bridges leading to the Green Zone, before relenting and allowing demonstrators to march almost to its entrance.
Mr. Corker, Mr. Flake and Mr. Johnson withheld their votes on a Democratic motion that would have relegated the bill back to a Senate panel, before finally relenting and joining their Republican colleagues in defeating the motion.
Before this Shawshank-y moment, Archie spends the episode in solitary confinement for, at minimum, three whole weeks, before relenting and agreeing to his warden's (William MacDonald) demand to join his underground, for-profit teen prisoner boxing ring.
They have already woven such an elaborate theory as to the centrality of Russia in their strategy for stymieing Trump, and devoted so much political capital to the enterprise, that relenting now would make them appear utterly foolish.
Then, after relenting in the face of a potential First Amendment lawsuit, they removed a well-credentialed faculty adviser from her job -- just weeks after her students won the best-in-state award for the newspaper she advised.
HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's longtime ruler Robert Mugabe will be buried in his home district, not at a national shrine, the government said on Thursday, relenting to the family's wish for a private burial three weeks after his death.
This despite the Archdiocese of New York, the second-largest in the United States, being under immense pressure to hold abusers to account, with the Church at large embroiled in a global scandal that shows no signs of relenting.
And a variety of narrower efforts to undermine health reform and send insurance markets into a "death spiral" have fallen short: Markets seem to have stabilized, and one by one, states that initially rejected Medicaid expansion have been relenting.
Even on Monday, he was showing his temperament and unpredictability, sulking over the tributes to John McCain, refusing to say the senator's name, but then relenting and allowing the White House flag to be flown again at half-staff.
Just a month into his presidency, Duterte used his inaugural State of the Nation Address to warn the public to steer clear of drug use, the scale of which was "staggering and scary" and promised no relenting in his crackdown.
LONDON (Reuters) - The British government on Monday pledged to publish economic forecasts that compare Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal with remaining in the European Union, relenting to pressure from lawmakers who sought to force the government to do so.
CEYLANPINAR, Turkey (AP) — Turkey's military said it captured a key Syrian border town under heavy bombardment Saturday in its most significant gain since an offensive against Kurdish fighters began four days ago, with no sign of relenting despite mounting international criticism.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi showed no signs of relenting in her impeachment standoff with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday, even after the Kentucky Republican announced he was moving forward with a partisan trial blueprint over the fierce objections of Democrats.
"We welcome this concession -- as well as Debbie Wasserman Schultz's decision to step down as party chair -- but it is not enough to justify relenting in the struggle to win fundamental democracy reform both within and outside the Party," Newkirk told CNN Sunday.
Yet now, after the long debate about access to Awamia -- with the Riyadh officials finally relenting, but only on their terms, that we ride in the heavily armored police trucks -- here was the colonel begging us to come back the next day.
But giving a handjob when you feel awkward or uncomfortable is not consenting — it's relenting, and by putting it on screen, Girls just gave hundreds of viewers reason to believe that their feelings about a similar instance in their own lives are real.
In March 2004, Comey, who was deputy attorney general, went to hospital bed of Attorney General John Ashcroft to keep him from relenting to demands from White House counsel Alberto Gonzales and others to sign papers reauthorizing the unconstitutional domestic surveillance program.
In March 2004, Comey, who was deputy attorney general, went to the hospital bed of Attorney General John Ashcroft to keep him from relenting to demands from White House counsel Alberto Gonzales and others on the reauthorization of an unconstitutional domestic-surveillance program.
Turkish forces captured a key Syrian border town under heavy bombardment Saturday, the Turkish military and a Syrian war monitor said, as Turkey's offensive against Syrian Kurdish fighters pressed into its fourth day with little sign of relenting despite mounting international criticism.
In practice, this creates a process where only a handful of committed Senators are needed to pressure the committee chair and the majority leader into allowing a unanimous consent request to be offered, and then together bully any objecting members into relenting.
By relenting—to Trump, industry stakeholders, and political reality—and agreeing to advance repeal and replace measures simultaneously or in rapid-fire sequence, Republicans inverted the procedural steps that would have allowed them to enact their agenda too quickly for activists to stop them.
Suffice it to say, nine times out of 10, it was our mother who had to come over, impatient with our ineptitude, and badger the vendor into relenting as the sun sank below the trees and the market tucked itself into trucks and vans.
Still, the official said, the president is mindful enough of the arguments against potentially tanking the stock market that he has been somewhat open to a move to narrow the scope and effects of the tariffs while avoiding the perception that he was relenting.
But groups that have backed Warren for months or years — like the Working Families Party and the Progressive Change Campaign Committee — are showing no sign of relenting in their support or beginning to coalesce around Sanders' frontrunning campaign to match the support Biden's now receiving.
Whether Hitler's "illusions could be bolstered only by narcotics," as he asserts, and whether Hitler's opioid addiction "contributed to the fact that in the last phase of the war and in the genocide of the Jews he never once thought of relenting" is unwarranted supposition.
Memphis Grizzlies (19-23) Memphis has nose-dived from a West-leading record of 12-232 on Thanksgiving, losing 229 of 210 games while the former All-Star center Marc Gasol has been submerged in a slump that has shown few signs of relenting.
The president nearly went all-out this spring to secure funding for his proposed U.S.-Mexico border wall before relenting at the last minute; the White House could come to see September's convergence of deadlines as a chance to exert more leverage over Congress.
"We welcome this concession -- as well as Debbie Wasserman Schultz's decision to step down as party chair -- but it is not enough to justify relenting in the struggle to win fundamental democracy reform both within and outside the party," Newkirk said in an email to CNN.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh said on Monday he would not step aside after a second woman accused him of sexual misconduct decades ago, with President Donald Trump and fellow Republicans showing no signs of relenting in their push for his Senate confirmation.
Because of an editing error, an article on Tuesday about Israel's relenting in a diplomatic dispute with Brazil over the Israeli government's nomination of a former leader of Israel's settler movement as its ambassador to Brasília misspelled, in one reference, the surname of the Brazilian president.
"The Trump administration has finally showed signs of relenting in its attempts to illegally withhold vital aid to Puerto Rico, and must provide the rest of the assistance this Congress has already enacted for the island," said Representative Nita M. Lowey of New York, the chairwoman of the House Appropriations Committee.
An older legislator on a business trip grabbed her crotch, and a lobbyist on a later trip offered to drive her back to her hotel but instead forcibly took her to his hotel, only relenting when he realized she was so obviously distraught he could not get her into his room quietly.
Now, Trump's executive order — which some in the press are reporting as a "reversal" or "relenting" on family separation — simply directs the administration to do the thing they said they couldn't do: keep children along with their parents in immigration detention while the parents are prosecuted, and while the family's immigration case is resolved.
When I asked my editor friend Julie if I could get her young daughters Barbies, she balked, relenting only when I found President Barbies (long before Hillary, Elizabeth, Amy and Kamala were in the running.)  Stopping by, they were awed by the Batgirl and Poison Ivy Barbies I'd kept in their original containers on my shelf.
It wasn't until relatively recently at WWDC 2017 when Apple and Amazon belatedly said they had reached an agreement to develop a dedicated tvOS app for the Apple TV. With Amazon finally relenting on its years-long holdout, it seems the company may be finally realizing it needs support from partners like Apple if its streaming video service is going to thrive.
The unflashy Mr Hammond kept the gimmickry to a minimum, relenting only to bung £7.6m towards the restoration of a stately home that he said had inspired the country estate of Pemberley in "Pride and Prejudice" (the small community of people who follow both Jane Austen and British fiscal policy immediately pointed out that Chatsworth House, 30 miles south, has a better claim).
Turnbull told a news conference in South Australia state his discussions with Trump included the ongoing threats from North Korea after the U.S. president opened the possibility of talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. "The president and I are both very much of the same mind - that there must be no relenting in the economic pressure on North Korea," Turnbull said.
Turnbull told a news conference in South Australia state his discussions with Trump included the ongoing threats from North Korea after the U.S. president opened the possibility of talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. "The president and I are both very much of the same mind - that there must be no relenting in the economic pressure on North Korea," Turnbull said.
While Clemson demonstrated in Monday's College Football Playoff championship game just how silly and reductive it can be to view the entire sport through the lens of how it relates to the Crimson Tide, there's no denying the school's sustained success—its sheer capacity to endure, season after grinding season, showing few tangible signs of slipping, cracking, or (Sabam forbid) relenting.
"The Trump administration has finally showed signs of relenting in its attempts to illegally withhold vital aid to Puerto Rico, and must provide the rest of the assistance this Congress has already enacted for the island," said House Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Nita LoweyNita Sue LoweyMixed feelings on war power limits: Lawmakers and vet candidates US officials, world leaders arrive in Israel for World Holocaust Forum  House revives agenda after impeachment storm MORE (D-N.Y.).
The waiter came over and asked about drinks, but Mom and Henry both agreed on ordering, speed always the key, so the waiter waited, pen twitching like a seismograph needle as these Salters scanned the menu, Michael stepping forward with a kale salad, please, which received a healthy sigh from Mom, who was debating between chicken paillard and salmon, and then deciding on fettuccine and an iced tea, while Henry challenged the merits of a thirty-dollar cheeseburger, the waiter describing the subtle combination of dry-aged rib eye and brisket and strip steak, Brie cheese, black truffle, a brioche bun, Henry finally relenting, substituting Cheddar for Brie, and a Diet Coke with no ice.

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