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Перевод: acquiesce

[существительное]
покорность ;
[глагол]
неохотно соглашаться; уступать

Тезаурус:

1. If we find that human faculties and understandings are such that knowledge is necessarily limited, we might more easily and "with less scruple acquiesce in the avowed ignorance" of what lies beyond the horizon, and "employ our thoughts and discourse, with more advantage and satisfaction" about what lies within our reach.
2. Remissions for crime, given as part of the justice of the feud when the victims of the crime or their kin had been satisfied, were not in fact a sign of weakness on the part of the crown, forced to acquiesce with an aristocracy resistant to justice, as the author of "L'Etat et puissance" had suggested; they were the crown's part in a highly effective means of controlling crime, dispute and disorder.
3. The realization that such a policy would almost certainly involve war, for Austria would have to be driven out of the Confederation and France might be unwilling to acquiesce in the creation of a powerful new Germanic state, did not worry Bismarck.
4. as he half knew, he would be asked to acquiesce in some lunatic scheme for pulling Tristram out of trouble, and saw her for a moment from a position of detachment: a tall young woman looking younger than her twenty-nine years.
5. IN A LONG apologia for having had the temerity to undertake a psycho-biography of Mrs Thatcher, Leo Abse denies that his book is a personal attack on her, but agrees that it may have some admonitory function in warning people not to acquiesce too readily in the disposition of someone who would appear, on his argument, to be gravely unbalanced.
6. At the time there were only three cable companies operating in Britain: Cable Wireless, which was owned by the British government so presented no problem, and the two American cable companies, the Commercial Cable Postal Telegraph Company and Western Union, who did not acquiesce so easily.
7. We're somewhat reluctant to offer it up, fearing a second stabbing, but she becomes stern, and we acquiesce.
8. SOUTH Africa's State President, Mr FW de Klerk, yesterday suffered the first serious blow to his reputation as the great reformer by appearing to acquiesce in a cover-up of political murders carried out by state agencies, including the police.
9. It may be that the Protestants of Northern Ireland would acquiesce in the new kingly order.
10. Be that as it may, it may turn out that the preparedness not to acquiesce in any all-Ireland solution is decidedly stronger than most commentators until recently were prepared to accept, except for the work of Bew, Gibbon, and Patterson.
11. As it was American atomic attitudes in this period hardened British resolution not to be bullied out of the business and not to acquiesce in an American monopoly; it encouraged her determination to be a nuclear power for the sake of the influence this was expected to give her in Washington!
12. Hong Kong authorities believe that most boat people will acquiesce rather than violently resist attempts to send them back to Vietnam, but this apparent passivity can be deceptive.
13. The Maccabees fought rather than acquiesce in the placing of a statue of Zeus in the Temple.