| His poetry continued as it began, very alert to Art as politically acquiescent, complicit or compromised. |
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| It's probably got something to do with the fact that, as a nation, we are absurdly acquiescent and uncomplaining consumers. |
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| Feminist folklore theory shows that women's practices are resistant as well as acquiescent, contingent as well as contextual. |
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| A skeptical press is essential to a healthy and functioning democracy, and the consequences of such an acquiescent media are frightening. |
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| The better-off refuse payment for services they accept while their victims are so servile and acquiescent that they make no protest. |
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| Hofmannsthal, perhaps fearing for the future of their collaboration, was unusually acquiescent. |
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| Indeed, Menand's enthusiasm for commercialism and pop culture goes far toward explaining why his work seems so acquiescent. |
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| He is dismayed by the indifference of the public to its own peril, but it is the acquiescent dismay of an older man. |
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| I wandered around aimlessly for a while, then gave the goose to an acquiescent hippy on a barge. |
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| By being acquiescent, rather than questioning who was in charge, the first mate was distracted from carrying out his responsibilities. |
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| China, which at first voiced reservations about the Indian nuclear deal with America, is now shrewdly acquiescent. |
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| So why are we so acquiescent and even seemingly disinterested in the current move to privatize the adjudicative aspects of our law-making tools? |
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| The real question for us today is: Why is the federal government so acquiescent in the face of pressure from industry? |
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| They tend to be acquiescent in relation to their jobs and these problems rarely come to the surface making any union action more difficult. |
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| At a gathering of nuns in Washington in 1979, he ordered the sisters to dress in proper religious garb and to remember their true vocation as acquiescent helpers. |
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| His anxiety proneness seems less pronounced now than it was in 1985, but in spite of this he proved to be abnormally suggestible, compliant and acquiescent. |
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| The public is generally acquiescent on matters like this and the right, the most vocal voice in the country's politics, was able to drown out any voices of dissent. |
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| Those running the campaign clearly counted on the influence of impressive propagandists and the help they received from an often acquiescent mainstream press. |
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| More often than not, he possessed an acquiescent nature, which made it easy to work alongside him in combination with his quick thinking and street smarts. |
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| Our predecessors of a century ago or in the midst of the Second World War would be astounded at how acquiescent our policy-makers are about this prospect. |
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| But in a short time he seemed entirely to change his opinion and to bring it in line with the traditionally acquiescent approach of the government. |
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| The difference between the proportion of respondents who say that they voted in the general election and the estimated proportion of Aboriginal people who voted may be attributed to response bias and acquiescent bias. |
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| Aided by Mr Radler, a tight-knit group of business cronies and a shamefully acquiescent audit committee, Lord Black's systematic long-term looting of the companies he controlled became increasingly frenzied. |
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| The Democrats, then the freer-trading party, were unusually acquiescent. |
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| China, acquiescent in America's efforts, will raise its eyebrows at the mention of North Korea, of which it is, in an admittedly awkward fashion, an ally. |
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| In most of the cases the attacks are carried out by criminal gangs, but officials are known to have been complicit or acquiescent in many of the attacks. |
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| This is a surprising statement which may be interpreted as heralding a change in tone of the EU's eastern policy to a very acquiescent, and, I am not afraid to say it, appeasing tone. |
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| But, you have kicked up about that a few times. I've got used to it, though. What I am not used to is how you are now. Very quiet, philosophical, and acquiescent. |
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