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Example sentences for "accede"

Lexicographically close words:
academicism; academies; acanthus; acaso; acause; acceded; accedere; accedes; acceding; accelerate
  1. Admit, assent to, agree to, accede to, acquiesce in.

  2. These terms are final, and if you do not accede to them no further communication will be attempted.

  3. The king refused to accede to the demands.

  4. Wagner naturally declined to accede to such a proposition and asked for the return of his manuscript.

  5. The countries of the Union which are not parties to the present Additional Act, shall at any time be allowed to accede thereto on their request to that effect.

  6. Countries acceding to the present Convention shall also have the right to accede thereto at any time for their Colonies or foreign possessions.

  7. The temporary stipulations noted above shall be applicable to countries which may hereafter accede to the Union.

  8. Countries which have not become parties to the present Convention, and which grant by their domestic law the protection of rights secured by this Convention, shall be admitted to accede thereto on request to that effect.

  9. The Doctor respected the man's point of view; but he did not seem disposed to accede to it.

  10. You have not yet told me whether you accede to the plan"-- "Have I not?

  11. Then she did broach a plan--one you refused to accede to.

  12. She would have to accede to his plans, anyway--and the sooner, the better.

  13. The allies were, consequently, compelled to accede to his nomination as Vice-President, and Van Buren was forced to be content with the prospect of being appointed Secretary of State.

  14. She may hand Kuldja over now, or she may keep it by the strong arm if she can; but she has forfeited all claim to consideration by the Chinese, through delaying to accede to that which those people consider in every sense their right and due.

  15. How can it be peacefully solved, if Russia will not accede to the terms from which China is resolved not to budge?

  16. Would it not be fitting for you even now--especially now--to accede to the father's wishes.

  17. Cousin Briest declined, of course, to accede to this request.

  18. If you accede to our request our party is certain of victory; if you refuse, there is every probability that our opponents will have their own way.

  19. Great Britain expressed herself as "entirely unable to accede to .

  20. Lycurgus was much shocked at receiving such a proposition, but he deemed it best, for the time being, to appear to accede to it.

  21. The officers seemed much disposed to listen to these overtures; in fine, they soon decided to accede to them.

  22. She refused to accede to this proposal, suspecting, perhaps, Cassander's treachery in making it.

  23. The Carthaginians would not accede to this demand, and so the negotiations were suspended.

  24. Antipater, the letter said, was willing to pay him three hundred talents of silver in consideration of his doing so, and the letter strongly urged him to accede to this offer, and evacuate the kingdom.

  25. I yield me, and accede to the condition," said Burgoyne, gracefully waving his jewelled hand, and joining in the general laugh.

  26. Cicero replies that he will certainly accede to Antony's views.

  27. The praise of La Harpe was previous to the condemnation of Wolf, and we might have been willing to accede to the German as being the later and probably the more accurate.

  28. So far, Lucy, I will accede to your wishes.

  29. But Napoleon could not accede to such proposals, for he was always ready to yield to illusion when the truth was not satisfactory to him.

  30. Besides, the Emperor's demands extended to England, who at that moment had no reason to accede to the pretensions of France.

  31. He still kept his army in Spain, and this proceeding determined Portugal to accede to some slight alterations in the first treaty.

  32. Were I to accede to this I might as well pack up at once and go and live on a farm a hundred leagues from Paris.

  33. The Court of Vienna refused to accede to it, not placing perhaps so much importance on the deliverance of Mack as he had flattered himself it would.

  34. After this complaint he communicated to the Congress the ostensible instructions of Napoleon, in which he authorised his Minister to accede to the demands of the Allies.

  35. On Napoleon's return to Paris the Pope, who was still at Fontainebleau, determined to accede to an arrangement, and to sign an act which the Emperor conceived would terminate the differences between them.

  36. I learned from Dessolles, who, as I have stated, was present at the conference in his rank of commander of the National Guard of Paris, that the Marshals were unanimous in urging Alexander to accede to a Regency.

  37. The two officers thought that they ought to accede to the proposition, notwithstanding the decree of death which had been pronounced against the whole garrison, in consequence of the town being token by storm.

  38. Tettenborn did not place reliance on these propositions because he could not suppose that there had been such a precipitate evacuation; he thought they were merely a snare to entrap him, and refused to accede to them.

  39. It is certain that Duroc might have become the husband of Mademoiselle de Beauharnais had he been willing to accede to the conditions on which the First Consul offered him his step-daughter's hand.

  40. How can you expect," said Napoleon, "that I can accede to such a proposition?

  41. Very well, I accede for want of other employment.

  42. Our first object was to convince our bankers, that there was no power on this side the Atlantic which could accede to this proposition, or give it any countenance.

  43. It is expected that the State of New York will shortly accede to the impost which has been proposed.

  44. But I equally wish, that the four latest conventions, whichever they be, may refuse to accede to it, till a declaration of rights be annexed.

  45. As matters stand now, our 'Stephen' is assuming or at least hoping that Mrs Varian means to accede to his last request and throw the money over the cliff tomorrow, Friday night.

  46. It bore neither date nor address, but it read, "Unless you accede to my demands, I shall expose you, and the woman you robbed will claim redress or return of her property.

  47. He sent back a despatch at once, thanking the legate for his efforts in behalf of peace, and expressing a wish to accede in general to the proposition.

  48. After consultation with his Cabinet, the regent answered that he could not accede to this request, and the hostages were returned.

  49. We cheerfully accede to them all of palliation which may be found in the provocations incident to the wretched system of apprenticeship.

  50. He would, however, accede to the proposition for the sake of doing something.

  51. The Doctor said, "we have come in to express our willingness to accede to your wishes in regard to your son.

  52. The two youths were no little astonished by the contents of this singular epistle; but, for all that, the terms imposed did not seem to them either harsh or unreasonable, and they were only too pleased to accede to them.

  53. I accede to your request, but only upon the following conditions: You must procure for me a skin of every variety of bear known upon the earth.

  54. Though Pyrrhus would not accede to the terms proposed for ransoming the Roman prisoners, he allowed them to go to Rome, for the season, to be present at the celebration of the fĂȘtes of the Saturnalia.


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