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  • Acquiescence is standard in such cases, and usually it works out for the best.

    Columbia's Last Flight 2003

  • Acquiescence is standard in such cases, and usually it works out for the best.

    Columbia's Last Flight 2003

  • My hope as a relatively new member of Religious Life is that whatever direction our various congregations choose — Death with Dignity and Grace, Acquiescence, Sojourning or Reconciliation — that we go there with authenticity and integrity.

    Transparency, Creativity, and Heresy 2009

  • Acquiescence to Berlin on the new stiff fiscal rules may make it easier to come up with more help for Greece, as well as increasing the firewall of bailout funds intended to stabilise the euro and ward off the risk of contagion from Greece to Italy and Spain.

    Germany to set the terms for saving the euro 2012

  • In early January 1944, his staff wrote a devastating critique of the State Department entitled “Report to the Secretary of State on the Acquiescence of This Government in the Murder of the Jews.”

    Crossing Mandelbaum Gate Kai Bird 2010

  • In early January 1944, his staff wrote a devastating critique of the State Department entitled “Report to the Secretary of State on the Acquiescence of This Government in the Murder of the Jews.”

    Crossing Mandelbaum Gate Kai Bird 2010

  • Wearied with the War their Acquiescence may be depended on with absolute Certainty, he confided to Jay.

    Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010

  • Wearied with the War their Acquiescence may be depended on with absolute Certainty, he confided to Jay.

    Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010

  • Condemn "International Community" Acquiescence During The Slaughter of Children yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Condemn "International Community" Acquiescence During The Slaughter of Children'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: It is not Zionist Israelis that deserve prime condemnation, for they have obviously been acting out of an somewhat understandable emotionally unbalanced state of mind.

    Condemn "International Community" Acquiescence During The Slaughter of Children 2009

  • Acquiescence is the acceptance rather than the rejection of ambiguous or unknown stimuli.

    The Bass Handbook of Leadership Bernard M. Bass 2008

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