Accede meaning

Verb: accede

Pronunciation: (ak’seed)

Accede meaning:

• To enter upon duties or position.
• Agree to others wish or opinion.
• To express agreement.

accedes, acceding, acceded

Quotations: Lakhdar Brahimi – It is evident that the United Nations cannot, has no means, is not present on the ground and simply cannot possibly accede to this request.

Jaswant Singh – We have appealed to the hijackers to at least let the children, along with their mothers come out of the aircraft. They have not acceded to our demand.

Antonin Scalia – Why can’t the state accede to the public’s wishes?

Gene Upshaw – It’s absolutely crazy. We’re like the gang that can’t shoot straight. I would never have agreed to move the deadline unless they acceded to my financial conditions. I want to go to bed, too. But once they agreed to take our proposal to the owners, I had no choice.

Tom Daschle – Literally minutes before the Senate cast its vote, the administration sought to add the words ‘in the United States and’ after ‘appropriate force’ in the agreed-upon text. This last-minute change would have given the president broad authority to exercise expansive powers not just overseas – where we all understood he wanted authority to act – but right here in the United States , potentially against American citizens . I could see no justification for Congress to accede to this extraordinary request for additional authority. I refused.

Sean McGuire – St Helens denied early reports that the deals had been manufactured because they refused to sell Higham to rivals Wigan, stressing that the Warriors did not make an offer for the player. Micky Higham requested a move so that he could further his own career, we received an offer from Bradford for Micky, which we felt we had to consider. We were then faced with the reality that we could either accede to his request, and receive a very good fee for him, or retain him for the final year of his contract and then let him leave for nothing.

Sample sentences:

1. In order to avoid a prolonged argument, I will accede to your terms and conditions.
2. He will accede that position.
3. Within the two months of the time he acceded to the chairmanship, and he handled the crisis very well. That established him in the market as a credible chairman.
4. What is clear is that it is highly unlikely that Iran is going to accede to the demands of the international community. In order to be credible the Security Council of course has to act.
5. I found it absolutely incredible that Mr. Duceppe called for a boycott of the installation as governor-general of an eminent Canadian of Haitian origin from the Quebec society, I was shocked to see Gilles Duceppe call for a boycott of that ceremony. They are Quebecers, they should be proud to see a Quebecer accede to that very important position.
6. If they don’t accede to it, we’ll still enforce it.
7. Threatened to withhold cooperation, cancel certain issues, or shut the magazine down if they did not accede to your demands.
8. Only the children are taking food, none of us has eaten a morsel. We are determined to protest until the UN accedes to our demand.
9. We would like to invite the United States to consider acceding to the TAC, such a step would indeed serve as a symbol of political commitment to the region by the United States.
10. The government acceded to the public pressures.