| When the comedian acquiesces and makes a freddy Krueger joke, the audience turns on him. |
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| Or he acquiesces – in which case, after all the bluster, there is no US military response. |
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| Mrs. Denis still expresses concern about the trip, but acquiesces when threatened with a subpoena. |
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| Pamela acquiesces to an extremely uncomfortable kiss, and then is finally allowed to go. |
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| Whatever Don's initial reluctance, he acquiesces to Winston's prodding because he is, actually, looking for something, even if he doesn't know what that something is. |
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| Dad acquiesces and signs the prescription. |
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| First, state involvement is established where a public official inflicts or instigates, or consents or acquiesces to, acts resulting in severe pain or suffering. |
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| But the whistleblower comes to realise that the president acquiesces in corruption of the grossest kind, and flees for his life into exile. There is far more to this gripping saga than that. |
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| But resignations also reflect and worsen weakness, because a government that acquiesces to calls for ministerial heads is perceived as too flimsy to resist them. |
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| It became a question of what direction Europe at large was going to take: would it be a Europe that stands up for its values or would it be a Europe that simply acquiesces in ethnic intolerance and xenophobia? |
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| Canada also does not require that the agent of persecution be associated with the State or that the State acquiesces in the persecution, which most European countries do. |
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