acquiescent
The best the leader can hope for is grudging acquiescence from the majority of his party.
His acquiescence in the nuclear deal may have been a tactical concession.
To have accepted such an arrangement would have been would have meant tacit acquiescence in violence.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Accepting & agreeing reluctantly
accede to something
acceptance
be resigned to somethingidiom
bend to something
bow down to someone
bow to someone/something
cave in
concede
crack
peace
philosophical
resignation
resigned
resignedly
resort to something
settle for something
shoulder
tolerate
trade something off
yield to something

Examples of acquiescence

acquiescence
The possibilities of rationalization and acquiescence exist when self-reports of personal feelings are elicited by an interviewer or selfcompletion questionnaire.
And he is demonstrably an individualist, again in an era often (wrongly) characterized as one of acquiescence and conformity.
The phrase which perhaps best summarizes the notion is 'voluntary assent and acquiescence'.
I gauge the uniformity of acquiescence based on evidence from state legislative journals about oaths of allegiance taken by state and national officials.
Indeed, everything pointed to the contrary: that the association would not be able to secure their acquiescence, let alone their active co-operation.
Again, acquiescence would seem to be evidence more of inertia than of rationality.
On what basis, we may ask, does acquiescence take place?
This does not involve a mere passive acquiescence in everything : it does not involve doing nothing.
In this study acquiescence and gratitude were in evidence.
In historical terms, acquiescence and apotheosis happened in rapid succession but not simultaneously.
To illustrate the extent of parliament's acquiescence, it is instructive to compare the failure rate of enclosure legislation with that of non-enclosure legislation.
Acquiescence in, or even consent to, clearly unjust institutions does not give rise to obligations.
The regime can use both of these processes to gain public support for-or, at least, general acquiescence in-unpopular government policies.
I call these three possible sources of acquiescence (in respective order) the "trivial," the "oligarchic," and the "authoritative" conditions for weak consensus.
Positive development at step 3 leads to acquiescence, which facilitates subsequent social learning, whereas negative developments lead to defiance and social alienation.
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