Adam nodded his acquiescence and stood to begin clearing the table in stony silence. |
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No immunity from infringement has been claimed on the basis of any earlier right or acquiescence in the present case. |
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In the latter situation, the acquiescence could not constitute permission and was only consistent with user as of right. |
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After their initial statements, all of the parties kept a careful silence, with the complete acquiescence of a tame media. |
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In colonial and antebellum America, slaves could buy their freedom, but only with the acquiescence of their masters. |
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Her mental maturity takes her from blind submission to condescending acquiescence. |
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The impassioned egalitarian rhetoric that asserts this supposed obligation cows many people into acquiescence. |
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Nothing less than complete acquiescence is acceptable within this church of political correctness. |
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In cases of this type, the customer's failure to object to the respective entry is considered acquiescence in the charge so made. |
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Describe her as a basket case, and she nods her acquiescence. |
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Meese, with the tacit acquiescence of other top officials, had laid out a version of events all were expected to uphold. |
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Agamemnon's acquiescence in this slaughter involves much indecision, even in his cuckolded brother Menelaus. |
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My husband now nodded, disloyally, I thought, as if he, too, were appalled by my acquiescence in a wanton act of check vandalism. |
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But this campaign helps sustain public acquiescence in a massacre of the welfare state. |
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This was crucial to social stability and to popular acquiescence in the new Hanoverian regime. |
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Behind the scenes, many governments are signalling acquiescence in America's plans. |
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The fact that we avoided a total collapse of the system has apparently given rise to an irresponsible acquiescence in certain sectors. |
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Thus we must dissent from our colleagues' acquiescence in Commerce's unwarranted expansion of the scope of its authority. |
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In saying that I want to articulate my general acquiescence in the agreement that permits testing of the cruise missile in Canadian territory. |
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Under these circumstances a leader who is trusted can make a claim on well-disposed followers whose acquiescence, although intuitive, is not simply gullible. |
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If the parties cannot agree upon the applicability of the acquiescence, there should be the possibility of a court decision. |
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How this would actually be done without the acquiescence of other countries was not explained. |
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Sometimes, Government connivance or at least passive acquiescence becomes apparent. |
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First at all, for the purpose of this study, the question of acquiescence must be dissociated from the question of the prescription period. |
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Initially, having consulted early English case law, he concluded that the mother's letter probably did amount to acquiescence. |
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On the five other occasions, there was a minority government that relied on the acquiescence of other parties to win the key votes. |
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Unanimously, people are very upset about the acquiescence to President Bush on this. |
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A surprising acquiescence of the employer in the formulation of TK and writing plans almost buried the project and a huge pile of money. |
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The case law referred to considers acquiescence to be a type of qualified inaction. |
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Some violations were even perpetrated with the acquiescence of the authorities. |
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There was no agreement or acquiescence to any indefinite stay and no consent to changing the children's habitual residence. |
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But with winking acquiescence, the FDA, though nominally still watching over shoulders, more or less disappeared. |
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There is no effective congressional oversight, as we can see by the acquiescence of the intelligence and judiciary committees. |
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Overall, European acquiescence in the campaign can be taken for granted. |
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William appears to have organized acquiescence by English lords for John, and was duly awarded when he was made Earl of Pembroke. |
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Congress has fostered presidential lawmaking by acquiescence. |
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Commanded to sit by Sir Walter, the women are all obedient acquiescence. |
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An underacknowledged distinction in studies of legitimacy centers on whether the organization seeks active support or merely passive acquiescence. |
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Even if a deal strengthens Iran's doves, its hawks may either try to sabotage the deal or demand greater latitude to expand their influence abroad as the price of acquiescence. |
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One component of that acquiescence is a flattering uncritical media. |
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At first, I mistook Chris's constant acquiescence for agreeability. |
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And, furthermore, the Japanese Group raised the question of whether recognising the effect of acquiescence would be in conformity with the TRIPS rules. |
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What was important in the paragraph was that the State must intervene and that acquiescence or inaction on the part of the authorities must give rise to compensation. |
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The Court does not however find it necessary to consider here whether the conduct of the Respondent could be held to constitute an acquiescence in the jurisdiction of the Court. |
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Lastly, the Groups were invited to provide an evaluation of the operation of their legal systems with regard to the extinction of rights due to acquiescence. |
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All around the world, families wait to find out what happened to those loved ones who have been taken away from them by agents of the state or by people acting with its support or acquiescence. |
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China confirmed its acquiescence to discussing the issue, but emphasized the greater priority of other issues and requested the amendment discussions be deferred until later in the meeting. |
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Any mediation scheme set up in the context of a Hague Convention application must therefore operate in such a way as not to fall within the concept of acquiescence in the context of the Convention. |
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That doesn't explain Mr. Obama's acquiescence in such restrictions. |
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All these things, in combination with the acquiescence of the international community, remain present in the minds of Equatorial Guineans. |
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In case there is no explicit agreement expressing the concurrence of wills, the Commission will have to prove that the unilateral policy of one party receives the acquiescence of the other party. |
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At the end of the day, the Commission or the Council signals its acquiescence in the developments through its response to the reports, traditionally in the form of resolutions. |
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The most frightening claim made by Bush with congressional acquiescence is reminiscent of the lettres de cachet of prerevolutionary France. |
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Mr. Quiverful's appointment to the hospital was, however, a fait accompli, and Mr. Harding's acquiescence in that appointment was not less so. |
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The article deals with two situations in which the right of an injured State or other States concerned to invoke the responsibility of a wrongdoing State may be lost: waiver and acquiescence in the lapse of the claim. |
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The interpretation of Article 1 of the Refugee Convention, as applied in most European countries, requires some form of State involvement or acquiescence in the alleged persecution in order to ground a refugee claim. |
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This required the acquiescence of Becket as the Archbishop of Canterbury, traditionally the churchman with the right to conduct the ceremony. |
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Karabakh Armenians and several of their brethren in Armenia, Moscow and elsewhere sensed in late 1987 that the moment was ripe to secure the Kremlin's acquiescence in the reunification of Karabakh with Armenia. |
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Instead, he adopted the more widely accepted view that as a general rule after separation, neither parent can unilaterally change a child's residence but instead requires a court order, consent, or acquiescence to the change. |
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Thus, acquiescence benefits not only the party who commits the acts that are susceptible to infringing a prior right, but also the subsequent right, such as a registered trade mark, use of which was an unlawful act. |
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As measured by actions, American policy has otherwise been acquiescence. |
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It was submitted on behalf of the mother that the letters indicated that the father had made a decision not to go to court, which amounted to acquiescence. |
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Peaceful acquiescence in the face of oppression can be deceptive. |
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I believe that if we renounce our claims today our acquiescence will be taken for granted tomorrow and we would have to fight hard to regain a position whose surrender today might seem of no consequence. |
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The object of this Question needs to be clarified in order to dissociate it from other concepts of intellectual property that could create confusion with the question of acquiescence and its effects. |
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The concepts of acquiescence and estoppel, irrespective of the status accorded to them by international law, both follow from the fundamental principles of good faith and equity. |
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The Groups were also required to respond to the question of how the prior right-holder should interrupt this acquiescence in order to prevent it from producing an effect which favours the holder and user of the later right. |
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Thus, acquiescence implies unstated consent. |
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In a word, and we must adhere to this ourselves, if we are to convey this to others: indifference in the face of evil-whether of individuals or states-is acquiescence in, if not complicity with, evil itself. |
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He will not abide intellectually lazy thinking or any form of acquiescence to political correctness and its facile rituals of politeness and forced conviviality. |
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A tactful diplomat, Hephaestos models courtesy and counsels acquiescence. |
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By September 1706, Harley ordered Defoe to Edinburgh as a secret agent to do everything possible to help secure acquiescence in the Treaty of Union. |
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