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Example sentences for "acceding"

Lexicographically close words:
acause; accede; acceded; accedere; accedes; accelerate; accelerated; accelerates; accelerating; acceleration
  1. To the painter I wrote that I felt that I had deserved the shameful insult he had given me by my great mistake in acceding to his request to honour him by staying in his house.

  2. I penetrated her idea; she thought that in acceding to my request she would be lowering herself in my eyes, and that I should despise her ever after.

  3. Mr. Kinzie declined acceding to this proposal, as he believed that his presence might operate as a restraint upon the fury of the savages, so warmly were the greater part of them attached to himself and his family.

  4. It was in her favour that he was appointed to a ship, since he was thus excluded from exercising any supervision over them at Castle Blanch, and shortly after, letters arrived gratefully acceding to her request.

  5. In acceding to the demands he made it understood that the engagements entered upon by him would be binding on his successors.

  6. The year in parentheses indicates when an acceding nation was voted to full consultative (voting) status, while no date indicates the country was an original 1959 treaty signatory.

  7. The clergy may, it is true, have shown wisdom in acceding to any terms of restoration.

  8. This was a subterfuge, by the aid of which he intended to open new negotiations respecting the form and conditions of the Regency of his son, in case of the Allied sovereigns acceding to that proposition.

  9. Metternich replied in a note, dated Frankfort, the 25th of November, stating that the Allies felt no difficulty in acceding to Napoleon's choice of Mannheim for the meeting of the Congress; but as M.

  10. Such unworthy attempts to frighten an unwilling Christian public into acceding to the return to a system of licensed prostitution, cannot be too strongly condemned.

  11. In the meantime, the other great towns are acceding to the proceedings of Boston for annihilating, in a great measure, their commercial connections with Great Britain.

  12. Maryland alone held off two years more, acceding to them March 1, '81, and thus closing the obligation.

  13. The French packet having arrived without Mr. Lambe, or any news of him, I await Mr. Adams's acceding to the proposition mentioned in my last.

  14. The offer at least proves that he was supposed capable of acceding to it.

  15. Four months were allowed for consideration and decision by the governments, and all acceding within that time were held as having signed at the convention.

  16. As so expressed, the Government of the United States finds no difficulty in acceding to the suggestion of the Government of Switzerland.

  17. It will be remembered that after the fatal field of Isandhlwana no time had been lost in applying to England for large reinforcements, and the home authorities were in no way slack in acceding to this urgent appeal.

  18. Were Colonel Pulleine alive, he might give equally good reasons for acceding to Durnford's urgent request and sending out the reinforcements.

  19. On the 1st of September the Commissioners made their reply, conciliatory in its character, and acceding to the principal requests of the Indians.

  20. I can assure you, besides, that all he sings is of his own composing; for I have heard that he is a great scholar and a poet.

  21. You have doubtless heard that North Carolina has thought it best to propose amendments to the new Constitution before acceding to it.

  22. As I do not foresee any possible objection to the proposition I made them, I think myself sure of their acceding to it, and that I may receive news of it in the month of December.

  23. President Wilson and the American Commissioners, unhampered by previous commitments, were strongly opposed to acceding to the demands of the Japanese Government.

  24. I did this by promptly acceding to the demands made upon me.

  25. Our plenipotentiaries will be instructed to present these views to the assembly at Panama, and should they not be concurred in to decline acceding to any arrangement which may be proposed upon different principles.

  26. In fine, a decisive inducement with me for acceding to the measure is to show by this token of respect to the southern Republics the interest that we take in their welfare and our disposition to comply with their wishes.


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