(v. i.) To approach; to come forward; -- opposed to recede.
(v. i.) To enter upon an office or dignity; to attain.
(v. i.) To become a party by associating one's self with others; to give one's adhesion. Hence, to agree or assent to a proposal or a view; as, he acceded to my request.
Example Sentences:
(1) Like Cameron, who is disappointing Eurosceptics with the timidity of his reform programme, the Swiss have been forced to accede to the realities of negotiating with a much bigger player.
(2) Abbas is under considerable pressure from Israel, the US and Britain in particular to renounce the option for the Palestinian Authority to accede to the ICC.
(3) But the jurors acceded to the convicted soldier's plea to have the hope of being reunited with his son and sentenced him to life with the possibility of parole after less than 10 years.
(4) He said there was no plan for McCluskey and Miliband to meet shortly, and also insisted there was no plan to accede to the Unite request for the issue to be discussed by the full national executive.
(5) The centre has collapsed: after acceding to Mrs Merkel's terms, Mr Papandreou's Pasok has gone from being a reliable centre-left party of government to a husk of its former self.
(6) It found the PA had failed to ratify international conventions on child labour after it acceded to the UN Conventions on the Rights of the Child.
(7) David Cameron is moving towards signing up Boris Johnson to his campaign to keep Britain in a reformed EU after signalling that he is prepared to accede to the London mayor’s demand to assert the sovereignty of parliament.
(8) Villa did not accede to his requests for a weekly salary of around £60,000, leading to Everton attempting to buy him, but the latter’s offer of around £5m was rejected.
(9) Renowned scientific societies acceded to this action.
(10) By the end of the episode, a secret letter from Matthew granting his share of the estate to Mary – passing over George, his son – has turned up; Lord Grantham has bravely acceded to a partnership with his most peevish daughter; Lady Cora has found a new maid and Carson has come to terms with his past.
(11) There followed protracted negotiations between the US and Israeli governments which resulted, in November 2009, in Netanyahu reluctantly acceding to a temporary construction freeze in West Bank settlements.
(12) It is more essential than ever for the institutions and the political leadership of Europe to accede to the realism with which the [Greek] government has been moving for the past three months.
(13) There is a clear need for an estimate to be produced on migration whenever EU countries accede.
(14) The besieged president, Abdu Rabbu Mansour Hadi, finally acceded to the demands of the Houthis on Thursday.
(15) All the parts need to be acceded permanently and in the proper way.
(16) Hopes of ending eight months of political paralysis in Spain have risen after its acting prime minister acceded to a list of demands from the centrist Ciudadanos party and finally agreed to submit himself to a confidence vote in a bid to avoid the country’s third general election in a year.
(17) The prime minister ruled out race, poverty and spending cuts as factors behind last week's riots, but showed signs of wanting to look deeper into their causes by acceding to Labour's demands for a public inquiry.
(18) North Korea's use of nerve agent in murder sends a deliberate signal to foes Read more North Korea is thought to have one of the world’s largest stockpiles of chemical weapons, and is one of six countries not to have signed or acceded to the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) , according to the US non-profit organisation the Nuclear Threat Initiative.
(19) For the tour Van Gaal has had many of his wishes acceded to with regard to ensuring best possible preparation.
(20) Following further lobbying from Malone, AT&T acceded to his demands and hived off AT&T's content arm, rebadged as Liberty Media.
Accord
Definition:
(v. t.) Agreement or concurrence of opinion, will, or action; harmony of mind; consent; assent.
(v. t.) Harmony of sounds; agreement in pitch and tone; concord; as, the accord of tones.
(v. t.) Agreement, harmony, or just correspondence of things; as, the accord of light and shade in painting.
(v. t.) Voluntary or spontaneous motion or impulse to act; -- preceded by own; as, of one's own accord.
(v. t.) An agreement between parties in controversy, by which satisfaction for an injury is stipulated, and which, when executed, bars a suit.
(v. t.) To make to agree or correspond; to suit one thing to another; to adjust; -- followed by to.
(v. t.) To bring to an agreement, as persons; to reconcile; to settle, adjust, harmonize, or compose, as things; as, to accord suits or controversies.
(v. t.) To grant as suitable or proper; to concede; to award; as, to accord to one due praise.
(v. i.) To agree; to correspond; to be in harmony; -- followed by with, formerly also by to; as, his disposition accords with his looks.
(v. i.) To agree in pitch and tone.
Example Sentences:
(1) Typological and archaeological investigations indicate that the church building represents originally the hospital facility for the lay brothers of the monastery, which according to the chronicle of the monastery was built in the beginning of the 14th century.
(2) ), nosological frontiers are still unclear and accordingly justify a comparative serological study of M.M., W.M., and B.M.G.
(3) It was the purpose of the present study to describe the normal pattern of the growth sites of the nasal septum according to age and sex by histological and microradiographical examination of human autopsy material.
(4) 53 outpatients with HIV-infection classified according to the Walter Reed staging system (WR1 to WR6).
(5) A statement from the company said it had assigned all its assets for the benefit of creditors, in accordance with Massachusetts' law.
(6) The patients were classified into two groups according to the presence (n = 166) or absence (n = 176) of documented episodes of atrial fibrillation preoperatively.
(7) According to the finite element analysis, the design bases of fixed restorations applied in the teeth accompanied with the absorption of the alveolar bone were preferred.
(8) According to some reports as many as 30 people were killed in the explosion, although that figure could not be independently confirmed.
(9) More than £26bn was wiped off the value of Britain's top companieson Tuesday, according to FTSE Group.
(10) A 45-year-old mother of four, named as Hediye Sen, was killed during clashes in Cizre, while a 70-year-old died of a heart attack during fighting in Silopi, according to hospital sources.
(11) According to the national bank, four Russian banks were operating in Crimea as of the end of April, but only one of them, Rossiisky National Commercial Bank, was widely represented, with 116 branches in the region.
(12) The pathogenicity of Mycoplasma pneumoniae in atypical pneumonias can be considered confirmed according to the availabile literature; its importance for other inflammatory diseases of the respiratory tract, particularly for chronic bronchitis, is not yet sufficiently clear.
(13) Our results on humoral and cellular components of immunity in dependence of age, according to SENIEUR protocol admission criteria are presented.
(14) Accordingly, when bFGF, complexed to heparin, is treated with pepsin A, an aspartic protease with a broad specificity, only the Leu9-Pro10 peptide bond is cleaved generating the 146-amino acid form.
(15) We studied the effect of low-dose intrathecal morphine (0.00-0.20 mg) on pain relief and the incidence of side effects after cholecystectomy in 139 patients divided into eight groups according to intrathecal morphine dose: groups 1 (0.00 mg), 2 (0.04 mg), 3 (0.06 mg), 4 (0.08 mg), 5 (0.10 mg), 6 (0.12 mg), 7 (0.15 mg), and 8 (0.20 mg).
(16) The authors analyze the biomechanical effectiveness of pelvic osteotomy according to the Chiari method.
(17) And, according to a letter leaked to the BBC last week , he reckons he has found one: default-on.
(18) On the assumption of a distribution in properties of the suspension according to the theory of Bruggeman, the capacitance is calculated to have a value of about one half this.5.
(19) According to the experience of clinical trials the recommended ciprofloxacin dose varies between 100 and 500 mg b.i.d.
(20) According to the OFT, banks receive up to £3.5bn a year in unauthorised overdraft fees - nearly £10m a day.