The law proclaims him guiltless, but the Pope says he is guilty; and he supposes he ought to acquiesce and say that he deserves his fate.
But he was too much of a service-man not to acquiesce in the orders of the supreme court with unquestioning obedience.
In a word, I shall be glad if His Highness the Grand Vizier will acquiesce in my wishes, and will to‐morrow propose his nomination to me.
But when the positions are reversed and the Christians become rulers as in Bulgaria, the Turks make no resistance but either retire or acquiesce meekly in the new regime.
I acquiesce in the dispensation of God, who, during the latter centuries, has so ordered events as to prevent mankind from receding from the degree of civilization they had attained.
I also communicated to him my last propositions, and trust that your majesty will acquiesce in them.
During the later stages of the volks-wanderung, they had remained rather in the background, seeming to acquiesce in a rather unfortunate manner in their own supersession by Petros Agha and his partisans.
That suits me,' I said, happy enough to acquiesce in anything.
I am glad you acquiesce so far," continued Mr. Porteous.
If these positions are made for us, we acquiesce in them very easily; and are always pretty ready to assume a superiority over those who are as good as ourselves.
It makes a great difference, too, whether the passengers acquiesce well together or not, for agreeable feelings give a fine appetite.
But did not America acquiesce in the dethronement of the Stuarts?
I combated all this very strongly, and at last got him to acquiesce in the idea of a recognition, provided that the words were such as not to imply that England never had the right.
Mr. Sheridan followed in the bold footsteps of his friend, and said, that "if a degraded and oppressed majority of the people applied to him, he would advise them to acquiesce in those bills only as long as resistance was imprudent.
If Parliament should see reason to decide that the proposed alteration in the Constitution is not necessary, and ought not to be made, I am confident the country will acquiesce in that decision.
The husband, swayed by the counsel and importunity of his wife, is forced to acquiesce in her choice.
One of the considerations which should make us acquiesce in the removal of our beloved friends who die in the Lord, is this--that we are suffering for their sakes; and that they could not be blessed without our sufferings.
This is a school in which, sooner or later, we must all be learners; and it behoves us to use diligence in preparing ourselves to endure trials with fortitude, and cheerfully to acquiesce in those painful events, which we cannot avoid.
Will you acquiescein the German occupation of Paris and Cherbourg?
Few will be disposed to acquiesce in the savage tone of criticism with which the learned Nic.
Few foreigners have been found to acquiesce in the undiluted panegyric of those Castilians who pronounce it the eighth wonder of the world.
You have simply to acquiesce politely and respectfully, as many of you do, and say you are Christians; and there an end.
Whether he oppose or whether he acquiesce in current opinions, to denude himself of the possessions which belong in common to his age and state of society is in either case impracticable.
And is the woman likely to acquiescein the destruction of her hopes?
They are but obedient administrative servants, and, so far from protecting religion, they acquiesce with tame indifference in every innovation and every apostasy.
The road to happiness and to glory is open to us too; we will climb it apart from them, and acquiesce in the necessity which denounces our eternal separation.
Confiding in the patriotism and integrity of the other colonies, the members elect signed a letter to the Congress, in which they promised to acquiesce in any action that might be had.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "acquiesce" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
