accede to

For many Ukrainians, the principal worry is whether their government — faced with a potential choking off of vital military aid in a few short months — would be forced to accede to a negotiated settlement giving up parts of their country to Russian President Vladimir Putin, toward whom Trump has long demonstrated striking deference.

“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.

Rokita, who lost and lost and lost some more, finally managed to get a judge to accede to his request to dismiss his own lawsuit over the matter last week.

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.