(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.
Dignity
Definition:
(n.) The state of being worthy or honorable; elevation of mind or character; true worth; excellence.
(n.) Elevation; grandeur.
(n.) Elevated rank; honorable station; high office, political or ecclesiastical; degree of excellence; preferment; exaltation.
(n.) Quality suited to inspire respect or reverence; loftiness and grace; impressiveness; stateliness; -- said of //en, manner, style, etc.
(n.) One holding high rank; a dignitary.
(n.) Fundamental principle; axiom; maxim.
Example Sentences:
(1) The values of human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, the rule of law and the respect for human rights are absolutely fundamental to the European Union.
(2) All the personality, dignity and humanity of a person are devastated by this torture.
(3) Но поразительно, что ((аристос)) и партию human dignity в сегодняшней России представляет не фигура солженицынского или манделовского типа, а бывший миллиардер.
(4) He chose to be a man, not an artist, in this painting, and to claim no dignity except that which everyone deserves.
(5) And I believe that America holds within her the truth that regardless of race, religion, or station in life, all of us share common aspirations – to live in peace and security; to get an education and to work with dignity; to love our families, our communities, and our God.
(6) From 1985 to June 1989 diagnostic tumour resections have been performed on 37 kidney tumours with unknown dignity following the preoperative imaging techniques.
(7) They’re angry because they can’t afford to send their kids to college so they can’t retire with dignity.” One of the signs that voters still lack confidence in the US job market is the labor participation rate, which in 2015 reached its lowest point in 38 years.
(8) Through small and large acts of deprivation and destruction we follow the process: the removal of hope, of dignity, of luxury, of necessity, of self; the reduction of a man to a hoarder of grey slabs of bread and the scrapings of a soup bowl (wonderfully told all this, with a novelist's gift for detail and sometimes very nearly comic surprise), to the confinement of a narrow bed – in which there is "not even any room to be afraid" – with a stranger who doesn't speak your language, to the cruel illogicality of hating a fellow victim of oppression more than you hate the oppressor himself – one torment following another, and even the bleak comfort of thinking you might have touched rock bottom denied you as, when the most immediate cause of a particular stress comes to an end, "you are grievously amazed to see that another one lies behind; and in reality a whole series of others".
(9) "It was not just about toppling the old regime but about building a state where people can have freedom, dignity, rule of law and social justice."
(10) Indonesia’s largest Muslim group, Nahdlatul Ulama, in February described gay lifestyles as perverted and a desecration of human dignity.
(11) The democratically elected usually manage to leave with some dignity intact – even if in Britain the removal is often criticised for its humiliating haste.
(12) In this retrospective study the findings of visual acuity, visual field and papillae of 204 patients operated on the cerebrum were determined and the significance of the morphological factors (position and size of the defect of the cerebral parenchyma, extent of the cerebral ventricles, degree of the cortical atrophy, influence of dignity) for the persisting ophthalmological deficiency phenomena was pointed out.
(13) My hope is that those who are at the Games take these words and let them echo, with grace, courage and dignity, in whatever way they choose to, because it will make a difference to those participating, and to those watching.
(14) The analysis shows that the core of nursing can be described as helping the patients either to manage their daily living or to die with dignity, and it consists of three stages which continually interact.
(15) From campaigner to prisoner to President to global hero, Nelson Mandela will always be remembered for his dignity, integrity and his values of equality and justice.
(16) For here we see the depravity to which man can sink, the barbarity that unfolds when we begin to see our fellow human beings as somehow less than us, less worthy of dignity and life; we see how evil can, for a moment in time, triumph when good people do nothing."
(17) After suffering a severe form of ME which left her bedridden and unable to speak or feed herself for all of her adolescent and adult life, she had decided she was never going to recover, and wanted to ensure her life would end before total degeneration robbed her of all dignity.
(18) Palliative care must be based on a philosophy that acknowledges the inherent worth and dignity of each person.
(19) They’d certainly believe that they had stolen this woman’s dignity.
(20) Having started out preening (he tells a former colleague that he lives "the life of Riley"), he ends up howling alone on a small rock, the decision to adorn himself with a beautiful young wife having stolen his stature, robbed him of his dignity.