How To Use Quiescence In A Sentence
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Repairing this damage would require at least a decade of relative quiescence, which is nowhere in sight.
Michael T. Klare: The Blowback Effect: 2020
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When turnout in an election for the state government in 2008 reached an unprecedented 60%, many Indians misread this as belated Kashmiri acquiescence in Indian rule.
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French literature, discussions on the advisability of establishing a monarchy, on the advisability of establishing a republic, on the advisability of establishing an empire; and before we proceed to examine the arguments, we cannot help being struck at the strange contrast which this multiplicity of open questions presents to our own uninquiring acquiescence in the hereditary polity which has descended to us.
Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American
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Her unexpected acquiescence completely deflated him.
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If Edgar Linton meets me, I shall not hesitate to knock him down, and give him enough to insure his quiescence while I stay.
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[Page 221] even with respect to the spiritual interests of beloved friends, where certainly acquiescence in disappointment is most difficult (perhaps in this world impossible) even in this case, there is great consolation in recollecting, that the Judge of all the earth will do right.
Memoirs, Correspondence and Poetical Remains of Jane Taylor
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For the young lovers, Pelléas and Mélisande, the only ‘happiness’ is acquiescence in their destiny - what happens to them; and acquiescence becomes identified with inanition.
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Above all, the system is destructive of faith, having a tendency to substitute passive acquiescence for real conviction; and therefore I should not say that the excess of it was popery, but that it had once and actually those characters of evil which we sometimes express by the term popery, but which may be better signified by the term idolatry; a reverence for that which ought not to be reverenced, leading to a want of faith in that which is really deserving of all adoration and love.
The Christian Life Its Course, Its Hindrances, And Its Helps
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The impassioned egalitarian rhetoric that asserts this supposed obligation cows many people into acquiescence.
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Efforts to clamp down on discomfiting material result not in frustrated acquiescence but in renewed assaults on the self-importance that lies behind knee-jerk censorial action.
Saints, censors and satire
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People are consulted more to gain their assent or acquiescence rather than to ascertain their views.
Remaking Planning: the politics of urban change in the Thatcher years
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lamblike" temper which is fulfilled in quiescence and disturbed by thought.
Robert Browning
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Nonetheless, the Bush administration, in acquiescence to the Lobby, has "bludgeoned" its European partners to go along with its uncompromising support for the Jewish state despite all the obvious perils from it.
The Power of Israel in the United States
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At the moment, he had been stunned into a kind of quiescence; now his nerves throbbed and tingled.
Maurice Guest
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Adam nodded his acquiescence and stood to begin clearing the table in stony silence.
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Being silent can be a mode of resistance, respect,[Sentence dictionary] apathy or acquiescence.
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In colonial and antebellum America, slaves could buy their freedom, but only with the acquiescence of their masters.
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Furthermore, we show that gases sampled immediately after the eruption have metal concentrations that are orders of magnitude higher than those of gases emitted during periods of quiescence.
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While the prosecution argues that Dunn and his team manipulated the books to claim the bonuses, the defense said such a fraud would have required the acquiescence of hundreds of accountants at both Nortel and Deloitte, an idea it called "preposterous.
Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
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LR1, and that the progress of epiboly over the next three or four hours coincides with mitotic quiescence of the ectoblast.
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With the apparent acquiescence of the insurgents, he also encouraged tribal leaders to commit recruits to the Ramadi police force.
Times, Sunday Times
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This concern that the project continue provided a basis for council acquiescence to the very compressed first-year schedule.
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The circles of fashion afforded more than one instance of this obliging acquiescence in matrimonial turpitude.
Memoirs of Mary Robinson
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No immunity from infringement has been claimed on the basis of any earlier right or acquiescence in the present case.
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Benny Hempstead always smiled and nodded acquiescence, but there was in him the strange persistency of a willow bough, the persistency of pliability, which is the most unconquerable of all.
The Copy-Cat, & Other Stories
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What is much more alarming is the apparent acquiescence - even complicity - of the nation in its own enslavement.
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They suffered, with unapproving acquiescence, solicitations, which they had in no shape desired, to an unjust and usurping power, whom they had never provoked, and whose hostile menaces they did not dread.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05 (of 12)
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People are consulted more to gain their assent or acquiescence rather than to ascertain their views.
Remaking Planning: the politics of urban change in the Thatcher years
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Overall, European acquiescence in the campaign can be taken for granted.
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Congress has fostered presidential lawmaking by acquiescence.
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The Roman course wears an air of a more delicate acquiescence, draws the veil of a new contract over the change, and concedes the general insupportableness of mere community?
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
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Unlike our usual mental cognition, which arises from the dominating condition (bdag-rkyen) of our mental sensors (yid-kyi dbang-po), yogic cognition arises from a state of combined shamatha (zhi-gnas; calm abiding, mental quiescence) and vipashyana (lhag-mthong, special insight) as its dominating condition.
6 Gelug Presentation of Tantra in General
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People are consulted more to gain their assent or acquiescence rather than to ascertain their views.
Remaking Planning: the politics of urban change in the Thatcher years
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And when we call for leaders, we're attesting to a weakness, an acquiescence in followership.
Times, Sunday Times
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All kinds of atrocious policies -- from Lyndon Johnson's war on Vietnam to Jimmy Carter's midterm swerve rightward to Bill Clinton's neoliberal measures such as NAFTA, "welfare reform" and Wall Street deregulation -- were calamities facilitated by acquiescence or mild dissent from many left-leaning Democrats.
Norman Solomon: Obama: Beyond Savior or Trickster
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In cases of this type, the customer's failure to object to the respective entry is considered acquiescence in the charge so made.
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Quentin, although rather surprised, was at the same time pleased with the ready, or at least the unrepugnant acquiescence of Hayraddin in their change of route, for he needed his assistance as a guide, and yet had feared that the disconcerting of his intended act of treachery would have driven him to extremity.
Quentin Durward
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There was general acquiescence in the UN sanctions.
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I was surprised by her acquiescence to/in the scheme.
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a murmur of acquiescence from the assembly
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2 Indeed, the very expectation of female quiescencethe normative value placed on rural women's silent acceptance of their social position, on their tacit agreement not to make troublehas made public forms of oral historical memory (e.g., praise poetry, clan "geochronology," 3 dynastic accounts) in Shangaan communities problematic and mostly off-limits for women.
Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique
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In either case, he is motivated by secondary selfish thoughts and thereby loses both his original state of vacuity in quiescence and the corollary state of straightforwardness in movement.
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Restriction of competition is synonymous with limitation of movement, acquiescence in control, and telesis, Ward's term for changes ordained by society in distinction from the natural process of change.
Introduction to the Science of Sociology
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There is really no other word in the English language to express the meaning of the ejaculative sound he made, which signified, equally, acquiescence, approval, disapproval, or anything.
Picked up at Sea The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek
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The onset of epiboly coincides with a period of mitotic quiescence throughout the ectoderm.
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Jan 09, 2009 | not rated yet | no comments yet A new study sheds light on a little understood biological process called quiescence, which enables blood-forming stem cells to exist in a dormant or inactive state in which they are not growing or dividing.
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But as a greater torpor follows this exhaustion of sensorial power, as explained in the next paragraph, and a greater exertion succeeds this torpor, the constitution frequently sinks under these increasing librations between exertion and quiescence; till at length complete quiescence, that is, death, closes the scene.
Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life
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Its essence is the intentional infliction of severe pain or suffering by an official or by someone else with the consent or acquiescence of an official, and the maximum penalty is life imprisonment.
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The half-caste smiled and nodded acquiescence as he folded up the money.
A GOBOTO NIGHT
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Thus, as we have seen, the Convention Against Torture bans all torture but defines torture as consisting of certain acts committed at the "instigation of or with the consent or acquiescence of a public official or other person acting in an official capacity.
David Isenberg: Outsourcing War and Peace: Part 3
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I shall only say, that those who are inconversant with these objects of faith — whose minds are not delighted in the admiration of, and acquiescence in, things incomprehensible, such as is this constitution of the person of
Christologia
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An underacknowledged distinction in studies of legitimacy centers on whether the organization seeks active support or merely passive acquiescence.
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These hysteric affections are not necessarily attended with pain; though it sometimes happens, that pains, which originate from quiescence, afflict these patients, as the hemicrania, which has erroneously been termed the clavus hystericus; but which is owing solely to the inaction of the membranes of that part, like the pains attending the cold fits of intermittents, and which frequently returns like them at very regular periods of time.
Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life
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The uneasiness attending this hot paroxysm of fever, or fit of exertion, is very different from that, which attends the previous cold fit, or fit of quiescence, and is frequently the cause of inflammation, as in pleurisy, which is treated of in the next section.
Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life
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After their initial statements, all of the parties kept a careful silence, with the complete acquiescence of a tame media.
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PEA does not mean mechanical quiescence.
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In the latter situation, the acquiescence could not constitute permission and was only consistent with user as of right.
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I was surprised by her acquiescence to/in the scheme.
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But it certainly would consider itself in serious danger if it could not get a larger base of support, or at least of acquiescence.
MANAGEMENT: task, responsibilities, practices
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An arranged marriage becomes a forced marriage when parents use coercion to obtain the acquiescence of their daughters.
Times, Sunday Times
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Yes, yes, all this is certain, and I may not ever go a-traveling everywhither to see the ends of this world and judge them: and the desire to do so no longer moves in me, for there is a cloud about my goings, and there is a whispering which follows me, and I too fall away into the acquiescence of beasts.
Figures of Earth
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They also expected obeisance, deference, and acquiescence to their methods - even groveling - from me.
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Seeing society's behavior, which ranges from sheer panic to quiescence, is downright creepy.
REVIEW: The Year's Best Science Fiction #25 edited by Gardner Dozois
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Efforts to clamp down on discomfiting material result not in frustrated acquiescence but in renewed assaults on the self-importance that lies behind knee-jerk censorial action.
March « 2009 « Sentence first
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Here is a pianist who not only understands the power of quiescence, but celebrates it: no silence is taken for granted, no pianissimo is abused for something it is not, no fermata is dismissed as excessive or unnecessary.
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As Dmitry noted, if it's possible to use quiescence for hot-plugging then it's not unreasonable to think that both the bus and processors are completely quiesced with no pending stores languishing in store buffers, which is precisely the behavior in which we're interested.
Planet Sun
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Based on the study, Smart planned to de-emphasize interdiction to concentrate on the new target systems: “[The aim is to] bring about defeat of the enemy as expeditiously as possible [rather than] allowing him to languish in comparative quiescence while we expand our efforts beating up supply routes.”
Between War and Peace
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•This postwar (or post-postwar) querulousness is just a blip for the president, and, as so often before, the Bush political and communications experts will make the necessary adjustments (or do the requisite bullying) and, with relative media quiescence, charge on.
Hullabaloo
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A primary conclusion from our work is that magmas beneath volcanoes such as Nevado del Ruiz release significant gas during periods of quiescence.
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LR1, and that the progress of epiboly over the next three or four hours coincides with mitotic quiescence of the ectoblast.
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Somehow all of that nightjar inheritance was there before us in her all-seeing, stone-like quiescence.
Country diary: Holt, Norfolk
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Thou, my Alan, wilt treat as timidity this passive acquiescence, which has sunk down on me like a benumbing torpor; but if thou hast remembered by what visions my couch was haunted, and dost but think of the probability that I am in the vicinity, perhaps under the same roof with
Redgauntlet
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A buoyant optimism and a stoic acceptance of finitude, a blood-rush of ecstasy and an acquiescence in the logic of mortality have alternated in this magisterial painter's art for more than four decades.
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The early Cretaceous is characterized by relative quiescence and thermal subsidence following late Jurassic rifting.
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Yet somehow the usual automatic impulse to drive off invaders of his territory had been lulled into quiescence.
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seduce the unwary reader into easy acquiescence
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Her mental maturity takes her from blind submission to condescending acquiescence.
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Nothing less than complete acquiescence is acceptable within this church of political correctness.
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A new study sheds light on a little understood biological process called quiescence, which enables blood-forming stem cells to exist in a dormant or inactive state in which they are not growing or dividing.
Health News from Medical News Today
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To survive, the enemy requires the assistance or at least the acquiescence of the people.
Times, Sunday Times
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By "codependence", willful blindness, lazyacquiescence, misled enthusiasm - whatever blend of abrogation of responsibility, we have contributed to this great evil.
Time for repentance
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Goby made vigorous play with the claret-bottle during the brief interval of potation allowed to him; he, too, little deeming that he should never drink bumper there again; Clive looking on with the melancholy and silent acquiescence which had, of late, been his part in the household.
The Newcomes
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Commanded to sit by Sir Walter, the women are all obedient acquiescence.
