So was the danger that would arise if McGahn acquiesced.
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America acquiesced in its monopoly over the Soviet strategic legacy.
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Later, though, he acquiesced and said he hadn't read it.
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She was shocked, of course, but she acquiesced to it.
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But she acquiesced and he got to see the boys.
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The group later acquiesced, agreeing to close all its restaurants.
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The major television networks acquiesced, though not without some grumbling.
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It took a few years, but Mr. Kahneman finally acquiesced.
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She followed through on the threat, and eventually enough Republicans acquiesced.
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She acquiesced, and got the devices back a few days later.
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Uber eventually acquiesced and received its testing permit in May 2017.
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The club leaders asked him to back out, and Nixon acquiesced.
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Nicaraguans acquiesced mostly because the regime brought stability and economic growth.
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"I thought it was dumb but acquiesced," the text message said.
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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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Ryan spent days refusing to take the gig, and then, finally, acquiesced.
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Republicans who have reluctantly acquiesced in Trump's rise are lending a hand.
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Leonhart did not directly intervene, but "acquiesced" to Whaley's decision, it added.
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The women were confused, but they acquiesced and handed over their IDs.
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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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The Senate finally acquiesced and it's a classic story of American politics.
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Ellen said she acquiesced, so long as he remained a good teammate.
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The ride-hailing company has since acquiesced and signed up for the permit.
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After hours of intense talks, Kalanick finally acquiesced and agreed to step down.
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But that battle is largely over; even major holdouts like Toyota have acquiesced.
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I must have said no seven to 10 times, and then I acquiesced.
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Established powers have not so much acquiesced as proved too weary to resist.
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And it's not as if Congress acquiesced to the practice of delaying statutes.
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Things changed and he acquiesced in this but he didn't acquiesce in leaving.
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Jason Giambi said he was sorry so many times that we just acquiesced.
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City council acquiesced and killed the plan they had only months before approved.
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The party acquiesced, and the left rewarded it with control of the House.
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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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Uber then moved its fleet to Arizona, but recently acquiesced and registered for California's program.
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Though I had acquiesced, my desire to go out waned as the day wore on.
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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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In response, the committee issued the men with a summons, to which they ultimately acquiesced.
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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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After that, the F.B.I. acquiesced and changed its procedures, resolving the fight, the files showed.
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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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Shortly afterwards the Lords too acquiesced, and the EU withdrawal bill will now duly become law.
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Barack Obama and John Kerry acquiesced in this game largely in hopes of stopping the killing.
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In the face of such intense scrutiny, the site acquiesced and shut down its Adult section.
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Eventually, Kourtney acquiesced and she and Kim agreed to "be adults" and throw the party together.
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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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But then he acquiesced —"'since cats take care of themselves,'" Mr. Giabiconi recalled the designer saying.
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The unions did not call the strikes but when workers and students embraced them, they acquiesced.
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Anti-Semites have made "Jew" a term of opprobrium, and the rest of us have acquiesced.
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We had a standoff lasting several uncomfortable seconds before I acquiesced and got out another card.
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"So it kind of makes it feel like it's a rap battle all the time," Webb acquiesced.
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Mr. Trump acquiesced, but unhappily — a frustration that may have colored his views on Syria, they said.
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Previously though, Trump had tacitly acquiesced in Cohen's averral that Trump had been totally in the dark.
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Having largely acquiesced in MBS's foolhardy ventures, the Trump administration is beginning to push back a bit.
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If Homeland Security had non-acquiesced in "Texas v U.S. A.," other suits would have been filed.
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Dish Network even acquiesced, canceling the pay-per-view—one of ROH's most important—with little notice.
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"I thought it was dumb but acquiesced," Ms. Foxx said of the suggestion that she recuse herself.
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Publicly, however, he defended the move as "humanitarian," proclaiming that "we don't do stunts," and ultimately acquiesced.
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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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We have acquiesced, fearing the loss of our jobs or entire careers by being blacklisted as troublemakers.
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If Rosenstein refused, Trump could fire him and continue down the line until a DOJ official acquiesced.
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After all, why otherwise would Beijing have acquiesced in buying up surplus stock at above-market prices?
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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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And in hindsight, it all happened because Obama acquiesced in advance to the Republican framing of the standoff.
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The company acquiesced, a visual tradition that began in 1902 came to a halt, and numerous headlines ensued.
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On Thursday, Conroy rescinded his forced resignation in a letter to the Speaker, and Ryan acquiesced (The Hill).
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When he refused, the guard threatened to move him to a violence-plagued dormitory, so Mr. Barrientos acquiesced.
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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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Within just a few minutes, Risch acquiesced and agreed to move ahead with a change to the omnibus.
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Congress, reluctant to be held accountable for putting troops in danger, and wary of challenging presidents, largely acquiesced.
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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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The administration recently acquiesced that U.S. troops will stay in the country even after the terrorist group's defeat.
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Chinese leadership also initially resisted pressure to allow foreign doctors to attend to Liu, though they eventually acquiesced.
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Planned Parenthood acquiesced, and the groups began working together on the Hyde Amendment and other abortion funding issues.
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IC agencies acquiesced at most to detailing a senior intelligence service graded officer, but none of their leaders.
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She acquiesced, throwing her 55 lb backpack in the backseat to catch a ride to the next town.
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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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Mr Turnbull acquiesced in that policy when he unseated Mr Abbott as Liberal leader and prime minister in 2015.
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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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Israel and Saudi Arabia both acquiesced in the nuclear deal, in large part because they have no other choice.
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So far congressional Republicans haven't been willing to go so far — and Trump, at least for now, has acquiesced.
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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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So he acquiesced when Congress blocked many nonwhites, particularly African-Americans, from accessing his newly created ladders of opportunity.
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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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A handful of major firms have acquiesced, including Brevan Howard Asset Management, Caxton Associates and Och-Ziff Capital Management Group.
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However, Walsh said he found Reagan had "knowingly participated or at least acquiesced" in a cover-up of a scandal.
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But Google has acquiesced in these situations before; the Chrome browser on iOS utilizes WebKit instead of Google's Blink engine.
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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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Russia has acquiesced in Israeli strikes on Iran's Hizbullah proxy, as long as they did not threaten the regime's survival.
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The Navy soldiers acquiesced, yelled at the public to stop and to go back to what they'd been doing previously.
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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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But with my options running out—and my chronic itching morphing into a troubling pins-and-needles neuropathy—I acquiesced.
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Eager for the help of humanitarian groups in responding to the worsening conflict, the United States and Afghan governments acquiesced.
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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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This devastating memoir unflinchingly recounts her experiences and questions the complicity of witnesses who acquiesced in the suffering of others.
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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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The Bulls acquiesced readily, which left Noah to find a role off the bench with strange lineups, in misfit schemes.
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In the past, carmakers had almost always acquiesced immediately when confronted with evidence of emissions violations and cooperated with regulators.
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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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Kalanick acquiesced after "hours of discussions," but will reportedly stay on Uber's board and still controls a majority of voting shares.
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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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She hated practicing, so her piano teacher acquiesced and allowed her to play songs she heard on the radio by ear.
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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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When he solicited me I was pretty grossed-out, but since I had no money for food or cigarettes, I acquiesced.
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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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After initially resisting pressure from activist investor Carl Icahn to separate from PayPal, former eBay CEO John Donahoe acquiesced in 2014.
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In 2010, former president Nicolas Sarkozy acquiesced and decided to return the artifacts; however, the principle of inalienability thwarted his attempt.
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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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Another 14 say Guevara tricked or pressured them into signing false confessions, sometimes by promising they could go home if they acquiesced.
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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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He had hoped to jam through Kavanaugh's vote, but when Flake called last week for a one-week FBI probe, he acquiesced.
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Despite international powers calling for Al-Assad to step down and allow the democratic election of a new leader, he never acquiesced.
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He went on to claim that after the flight attendant asked him to he put his laptop away he "quickly & politely" acquiesced.
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America and its allies restrained Ukraine from fighting when Russia invaded and annexed Crimea—and a weak, post-revolutionary Ukrainian government acquiesced.
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In practice, however, Ryan and other Republicans found those constraints too severe to sustain and acquiesced in Democratic attempts to relax them.
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Not Pulitzer-prize-winning journalism," Pensiero acquiesced, adding that "we were on the frontier trying to wrestle the beast onto the ground.
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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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These consumer interests help explain why food industry leaders supported or at least acquiesced in most of FDA's recent food policy initiatives.
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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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It acquiesced when he defeated the Hashemites, Britain's ally in the first world war, and took the holy cities of Mecca and Medina.
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And there is also the perception that the Obama administration acquiesced in Iran's growing influence in the region, which has also strained ties.
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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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Pressured by the league to polish up the team's optics, ownership acquiesced, allowing Silver to lodge an inside man deep within the organization.
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But when Mr. Juncker made clear that a negotiation that included agriculture would also include other hard-to-resolve issues, the president acquiesced.
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Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama foolishly acquiesced, in exchange demanding changes in Mexico's justice system and providing funds for the changes.
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Japan, for example, also evacuated citizens from China, but acquiesced when two evacuees who did not have symptoms declined to see a doctor.
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The attorney general, Mohammad Ishaq Aloko, a Karzai protégé, was out of the country undergoing medical treatment; in his absence, his deputy acquiesced.
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That in itself marks an 8% increase on the previous annual fee, to which South Korea begrudgingly acquiesced after fraught negotiations last year.
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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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Some Democrats, such as Governor Andrew Cuomo of New York, ultimately acquiesced and donated Weinstein's money to groups advocating on behalf of women.
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Republican leaders reluctantly acquiesced, only after it became clear that they didn't even have enough support to confirm Kavanaugh within their own ranks.
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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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Thailand has frequently acquiesced when Cambodia has asked it to repatriate citizens with criminal convictions or those it considers a threat to national security.
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Back then they acquiesced on all manner of conventions, not just the paltry coupons they were being offered by companies with shoddy financial prospects.
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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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President Donald Trump had initially set out a demand that China close its trade surplus by $200 billion, to which Beijing has not acquiesced.
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In protest, she slept outside the Neubau camp with her child in the middle of winter for an entire week until they finally acquiesced.
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The state — now under growing national pressure — finally acquiesced and within a month, the Flint water source was switched back to the Detroit system.
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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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When the woman refused, the complaint said, Mr. Weinstein threatened her career, suggesting that she would never work as an actress unless she acquiesced.
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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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Throughout this period and even today, the House has closely guarded its turf over tariffs, and the Senate has uniformly acquiesced in this arrangement.
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They earned them in an international trading system where the United States acquiesced in running systematic half-a-trillion dollars of annual trade deficits.
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Wasabi went back to DJ TechTools asking for a replacement to be made, and eventually, they acquiesced, creating and giving him a higher-quality replacement.
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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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The Taiwanese Department of Health first denied her request for sperm retrieval but then acquiesced under public pressure—though she never got access to it.
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And the courts largely acquiesced, ruling that the First Amendment offered no protection for speech with a "bad tendency" — essentially, any speech the government disliked.
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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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Congress has acquiesced in such decisions, leaving it to the president to take both the political risks and reap the political rewards for his decisions.
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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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Many voters on the left feel the establishment parties have acquiesced too easily to Wilders' xenophobic politics in a bid to blunt his populist appeal.
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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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In effect, Obama appeased the Ayatollahs of Tehran, and acquiesced in their suppression of democracy, to secure an agreement he believed served the national security interests.
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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 Guggenheim acquiesced, positioning itself along the way as a victim of censorship; the Whitney refused, and sought to soften this refusal with programs and texts.
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" Ms. Tirschwell was "worried that if she refused him, the fund itself would never get off the ground," the suit says, adding that "she reluctantly acquiesced.
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As strong unions pushed for a 40-hour workweek in the 73s, business leaders who acquiesced found that their companies became significantly more profitable and productive.
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Have you acquiesced and accepted the status of a puppet like Vice President Mike Pence, who, on the boss's orders, exited a football game on Sunday?
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Mr. Rosenstein acquiesced and handed over the documents, but despite Mr. Nunes's repeated demands, he never read them, according to an official familiar with the matter.
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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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Nubi, who typically is so temperamental that his owner jokes about needing a priest to perform an exorcism, gently acquiesced, then turned back to the bird.
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Despite being famously not-a-fan of pets, Trump would have acquiesced had Melania Trump's plan to get a pet for their son come to fruition.
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At an event last month in Brooklyn, however, Apple finally acquiesced, delivering the largest single update since the product was introduced ten and a half years prior.
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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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The exception made for Japanese names has a historical basis: In the 1850s, a weak Japan acquiesced in adopting many of the practices of powerful Western countries.
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"This could lead you to think, 'Well, this man is weird, this is wrong, I shouldn't have acquiesced, I should have pushed back,'" Mr. Lengua Balbi said.
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For their part, black parents fought back using the legal system to file hundreds of lawsuits arguing for educational access and equal funding, but many also acquiesced.
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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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And indeed, last July, the state acquiesced: It passed a law permitting people with premises licenses to do the very thing that these plaintiffs wish to do.
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Mr Putin is probably right to reckon that the world will come to terms with the fall of Idlib, just as it acquiesced in the fall of Aleppo.
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Many of the tech giants that kicked and screamed in resistance to the new law have acquiesced and accepted their fate — at least until something different comes along.
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Over the coming days it will need to explain to angry youngsters in Oromia why it appears to have acquiesced again in the suspension of their political rights.
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Nowak acquiesced because it made sense for the in-game quest, making it easier for players to spot the character and follow along the path the developers intended.
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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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It concluded there was no evidence that President Ronald Reagan knew about the scheme, but he may have "knowingly participated or at least acquiesced" in the cover-up.
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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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When I finally acquiesced and took that man's seat on the bus that day, he put both hands on my belly and rubbed it as we switched places.
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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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Either the aides acquiesced and tried to make the best of a bad policy or they left the White House — quitting like Cohn, or getting fired like Tillerson.
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"If they need to clean the windows, they need to do it in off hours," Stecklow recounted telling the chief security guard, who acquiesced and opened the space.
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So when our daughter decided she was going to be living in one of her few dresses from Zutano each and every day, my wife and I immediately acquiesced.
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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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Amazon had previously refused to hand over information to the cops, citing First Amendment protections, but has now acquiesced after the defendant gave authorities permission to access the data.
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Since taking office in late 2012, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has been pushing companies to raise wages by around 2 percent to stimulate growth, and many companies have acquiesced.
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The individual state chapters of MAO sued their parent organization in an effort to maintain the ban, and the national organization acquiesced, delaying the policy change for a year.
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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 bureau and its hapless sheriff at the time, James Comey, eventually acquiesced with the help of such Clinton fans as then-FBI employees Peter Strzok and Lisa Page.
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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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But Senate Republicans, wary of challenging Mr. Trump, say they have acquiesced enough — and unlike the states covered in the package, Puerto Rico has already received some financial aid.
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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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Mm-hmm. I had friends of friends of friends and just was relentless and bugged people and got meetings, and then they acquiesced and introduced me to other people.
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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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After a substantial amount of coaxing from the instructor, Fabricio Silva, Miguel finally acquiesced and joined the rest of the kids as they sprinted in circles around the gym.
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But three of the four prosecutors threatened to quit the case, so Mr. Shea acquiesced until Mr. Barr and the deputy attorney general, Jeffrey A. Rosen, overruled him on Tuesday.
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All the major TV networks acquiesced and provided a chunk of their primetime schedules; news organizations including the New York Times and CNN fact-checked Trump's statements in real time.
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His press secretary, Pierre Salinger, after initially ignoring the president's repeated requests to cancel the paper, eventually acquiesced and announced that Kennedy would instead read The St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
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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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Why did Mr. Dauman fight when the odds were against him and he ended up in the same place he would have been had he acquiesced in the first instance?
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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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The Justice Department ultimately acquiesced, although some prosecutors believed it was unfair to add an extra penalty for using a weapon that the United States government required them to carry.
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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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Trump acquiesced with a tweet after Pelosi asked him in a phone call on Thursday morning to reassure DACA recipients that they won't be deported over the next six months.
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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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Last year, after initially refusing to comply with a subpoena for possible recordings in another homicide, Amazon ultimately acquiesced after the defendant agreed to let the company turn the information over.
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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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" Lenney acquiesced and made another video about Little T, and then one about Little T's sworn rival, Soph Aspin, a young female MC who Lenney sarcastically dubbed the "Queen of Grime.
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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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Eventually Apple acquiesced and, with its large-sized iPhone 6 lineup, it won back many defectors and drove shipments to levels the likes of which it will forever try to match.
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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 U.S. acquiesced in such an unhinged multilateral system of trade and finance, apparently thinking that getting real resources from abroad in exchange of its own IOUs was a wonderful deal.
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At a house party, the men laughed when I announced I didn't want us to watch the video, but they finally acquiesced when I displayed the telltale signs of female rage.
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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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Given Flake's standing as one of three Republicans who could sink Kavanaugh's nomination, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell ultimately acquiesced and backed calls to the White House for a supplemental FBI review.
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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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But because she had always "acquiesced before he crossed the line" and she hadn't thought of it as rape at the time, she didn't feel comfortable using the word in our interview.
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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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After introducing her performance of first single "New York," he acquiesced the stage to Annie Clark and she played the sweet, salty ballad that kicked off her album campaign back in July.
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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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Ms. Brainard and Daniel Tarullo — a fellow governor and former colleague in the Clinton administration who raised similar concerns — ultimately acquiesced in the Fed's December increase, providing Ms. Yellen with unanimous support.
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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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To believe Pierson's current version of events, you have to believe that she acquiesced that the President of the United States used a racial slur solely to move Omarosa off the subject.
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Given the resistance, Mr. McConnell acquiesced, with a top aide hurriedly rewriting the resolution to allow three days for the arguments and the acceptance of the House record without a separate vote.
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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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It had mostly acquiesced its imperial powers over Cuba by the time that Fulgencio Batista took power in a coup in 1934, but the threat of American invasion still hung over the island.
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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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They acquiesced (although I wouldn't go every week), and with that I entered a new era of womanhood in my family, ushered into a routine that helped us bond on a deeper level.
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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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For more than two decades, they said, he acquiesced in his imprisonment without trial, as a ploy to avoid the death penalty and to make it harder to mount a case against him.
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A deputy named Misty Piper said that, after Gibson repeatedly pressured her to have sex with him, she acquiesced, because she felt that, if she defied Gibson, she would meet a similar fate.
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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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Now Mr. McConnell has fully acquiesced in President Trump's power grab by supporting an emergency declaration, which he opposed just weeks before, aimed at addressing a crisis that Senate Republicans know does not exist.
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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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For at least 90 years, the National Labor Relations Board, the Internal Revenue Service and the Immigration and Naturalization Service, the predecessor of Homeland Security, have all "non-acquiesced" in decisions they strongly disagreed with.
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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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Dianna, Eddie and more loved ones staged a "come-to-Jesus moment" for her in which Dianna told Demi she could no longer see her younger sister Madison as long as she was using; Demi acquiesced.
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The company has faced public criticism from central television channel CCTV, as well as from regulators who have demanded the company act more aggressively in removing the content, a demand to which the company has acquiesced.
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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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Reticent at first because his band was slated to play later that weekend, the singer acquiesced after he was handed a Yamaha FG 240 guitar, tied with a rope in lieu of a strap, and ushered onstage.
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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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At the very least, Pompeo enabled the smear campaign to go unchallenged, acquiesced in the Giuliani back channel effort with Ukraine and failed to say a word in defense of Bill Taylor, George Kent or Marie Yovanovitch.
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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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But by seeing Syria only through the lens of another Iraq, not as a challenge to global order, the administration has acquiesced in Iran and Russia's creating not only a humanitarian catastrophe but also a dangerous geopolitical crisis.
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Perhaps too many of our politicians in both parties have acquiesced ... and maybe that is why the general public -- from the old tea party to today's progressive Democrats -- have felt attracted to those who seem to break the system.
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It was a moment in which the leader of the world's most valuable startup was confronted by the leader of the world's most valuable business and even though he acquiesced, Kalanick had won his right to live another day.
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But in Iraq he headed for the exits way too soon, acquiesced in former Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's Shia sectarian-centric policies and abdicated the field both militarily and politically, leaving Iraq to its own dysfunctional politics.
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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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Dudley has openly talked about how he needed to sit out with a fractured knee in order to get healthy, but acquiesced when Rivers asked him to keep playing because Redick and Matt Barnes were already out with injuries.
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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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Shea wanted the original filing to call for less than the seven to nine years the prosecution team favored, but acquiesced after those prosecutors threatened to drop off the case if their recommendation wasn't adopted, according to the official.
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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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For years, $5 footlongs were the bedrock of Subway's marketing, but eventually, inflation caught up with the chain and it's tens of thousands of franchises, so the sandwich brand acquiesced and added a buck to what became a $6 deal.
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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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Although Wheeler was under no obligation to comply with these congressional requests, he acquiesced and one day before the Open Meeting dropped every single item from the agenda (all of which by any reasonable definition could be considered "complex" and "controversial").
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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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Previous crises have seen Democrats adopt stances that were ultimately seen as too accommodationist to a Republican president — most conspicuously when many Democratic senators acquiesced on then-President George W. Bush's power to wage war in Iraq after the Sept.
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During Mr. Pence's stops in Amman and Cairo, King Abdullah II of Jordan and President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi of Egypt criticized the Jerusalem decision (although secret tapes reported by The Times suggest the Egyptians acquiesced in Mr. Trump's choice).
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Weijia Jiang of CBS News, told repeatedly by Mr. Trump to "sit down," remained standing until he acquiesced and answered her question, about how his views of Judge Kavanaugh were affected by the misconduct allegations that he himself has faced.
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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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One of the ways I've tried ignoring mainstream demands that I starve myself smaller — to which I acquiesced for a couple of years as a teenager, to the point of hospitalization — is by attempting to control the media I consume, particularly social media.
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Nicaraguans acquiesced: the economy was growing at over 4% a year (the fastest rate in Central America), the country was a safe part of an otherwise volatile region, and Mr Ortega continued to support social programmes thanks to generous aid from Venezuela.
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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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He seemed genuinely concerned that if he sent me to the "ghetto," he might be putting me at risk of bodily harm, but he finally acquiesced and grimly gave me some cross streets in south LA to look for my next destination.
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Mr. Christie acquiesced on the gasoline tax, which will cover a $32 billion reauthorization of the transportation fund over eight years, after a fatal train crash in Hoboken that put a spotlight on the problems plaguing the state-run commuter rail line.
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According to this appealing version of recent history, Iran had kept the hostages during the Carter administration because they knew Carter was "weak," but they so feared Reagan's red-blooded American resolve that they acquiesced the second he was sworn into office.
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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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But Mr. Cohen and Mr. Manafort, along with the former national security adviser Michael Flynn, may now have become central figures in inquiries into whether the president, and perhaps others acting at his guidance, directed, encouraged or acquiesced in lies to criminal and congressional investigators.
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Though powerful Saudi interest groups appear to have acquiesced in the moves, some international investors fear a period of internal dissension that could mean the project's collapse; indeed, Western intelligence analysts do not rule out the possibility of a coup once the king dies.
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I asked the teenager behind the counter for one of each regular doughnut (Tim Hortons also has a variety of fancy cream-filled doughnuts, called beignes de rêve, or dream doughnuts), and while he initially looked shell-shocked (maybe my broken French), he acquiesced.
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"Democrats are accusing me of being too soft on Turkey," Mr. Trump said at one point, an apparent play on his policy toward the authoritarian country that invaded northern Syria last month, after the president acquiesced in a phone call with the Turkish president.
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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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Instead of using the G-20 meeting in Osaka, Japan last month to force trade surplus countries to stimulate their economies, and to stop living off the rest of the world, Washington acquiesced in European and Chinese lectures about the virtues of a multilateral trading system and free trade.
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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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ET, ACC Network ABOUT LOUISVILLE (12-2, 0-84.13 ACC): Coach Rick Pitino demanded sophomores Donovan Mitchell (team-high 12.4 points) and Deng Adel (10.7) start playing like stars and they acquiesced against the Hoosiers; the former poured in a career-high 25 points off the bench while the latter added 17.
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But Mr. Graham, who could have done the same, acquiesced in the provincial suspicions of modern intellectual life — suspicions that keep millions of the faithful away from an honest engagement with the Darwinian revolution in natural history and with historical and archaeological findings about the origins of the Bible as a human document.
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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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"My regret is that I would've brought to the organization, the angst and anger of my own story: a young aspiring gymnast who witnessed first-hand the assaulting behavior of a coach; watched peers who acquiesced in it move ahead while those who didn't were left behind, and myself stayed silent — perhaps the norm then, but very troubling to me to this day," she said.
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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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And yet there is Bill de Blasio — dismissed, discredited and yet convinced that he alone can alter the fortunes of working families as president of the United States, even as he has allowed a lead crisis to contaminate New York City's public housing, acquiesced over and over to real-estate interests and kept from pressing for more transparency and accountability from the police department.
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The North gave two reasons for its ire: long-scheduled military exercises between America and South Korea, to which it had previously acquiesced (although it may have been surprised by the involvement of Stealth fighters, which could be used in a "decapitation" strike, and B-52s, which can carry nuclear bombs), and America's insistence that it must unilaterally forswear nuclear arms—the very condition on which America agreed to talks in the first place.
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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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