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accede
verb as in agree or consent
Example Sentences
Despite not acceding to the family’s request for life sentences, they said they were happy with the outcome and that justice had been served.
Isaac Mwaura, spokesperson for the current Kenyan government, told the BBC that the authorities were "very co-operative with the protesters and acceded to the demands, including the president not assenting to the finance bill".
“We understand that Donald Trump is a risk to skip the debate altogether, as he has threatened to do previously, if we do not accede to his preferred format,” it said.
That will give pause to any state executives before they accede to democracy-defying pressure from the former president.
A driver who did not accede to such a policy, he said, could find somewhere else to race.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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