Acquiescence meaning

Noun: acquiescence

Pronunciation: (a-kwee’e-sun(t)s)

Acquiescence meaning:

• Acceptance without protest.
• Agreement with a statement or proposal to do something.

Synonym: assent

Verb: acquiesce

Pronunciation: (a-kwee’es)

Acquiesce meaning: To agree or express agreement.

Synonym: accede

Quotations: Richard Cecil – The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced his will in all things.

Mary McLeod Bethune – If we accept and acquiesce in the face of discrimination, we accept the responsibility ourselves. We should, therefore, protest openly everything that smacks of discrimination or slander.

Patrick Leahy – Despite my misgivings, I have acquiesced in some of the administration’s proposals because it is important to preserve national unity in this time of crisis and to move the legislative process forward.

Marc Graboff  – You’ve got to walk the fine line of letting them steal your stuff for the promotional value and allowing them to cut into your revenues and somehow acquiesce to copyright infringement.

Robert Jervis – Once countries know that the U.S. is going to use military force in Iraq, they may accept it, although not with the same support that the U.S. has had in Afghanistan. A lot of countries will decide to at least passively acquiesce. The military success in Afghanistan is helping to carry this support, but if the situation there deteriorates, how the world perceives a possible Iraqi option will change.

Sample sentences:

1. I knew about the rule. So, I knew we would acquiesce.
2. He told the child that a relative had asked him to take him to the men’s room and check him. Of course, the child acquiesced to that.
3. The health care contribution is going to be absolutely disastrous in the future. Instead of holding our ground, we’re acquiescing to the anti-labour ideology of Bloomberg, Pataki and the Republican agenda.
4. The business community is troubled that the House has again acquiesced to organized labor and the Rendell administration on matters of bad public policy.
5. When the market refused to acquiesce to Cisco’s news, that was uncharacteristically resilient of this market, people are now looking for reasons why the market isn’t doing more.
6. They don’t have a right to hold Congress hostage to the position that we’re not going to have enforcement of our laws until such time as we acquiesce on the issue of an amnesty and broader temporary worker program.
7. You don’t understand death, you learn to acquiesce in death.
8. The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.
9. Whenever the county commissioners see that, they acquiesce and kowtow to the numbers of voters. It’s mob democracy.
10. The only thing that permits us to acquiesce in an erroneous theory is the lack of a better one analogously; an injustice is tolerable only when it is necessary to avoid an even greater injustice.