(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.
Intercede
Definition:
(v. i.) To pass between; to intervene.
(v. i.) To act between parties with a view to reconcile differences; to make intercession; to beg or plead in behalf of another; to mediate; -- usually followed by with and for; as, I will intercede with him for you.
(v. t.) To be, to come, or to pass, between; to separate.
Example Sentences:
(1) Overall, the six neurotoxins were shown to be composed of highly conserved amino acid domains interceded with amino acid tracts exhibiting little overall similarity.
(2) It is unusual for an official of Dai's rank to intercede.
(3) With few exceptions, pulmonary complications in the immunocompromised host will proceed to death unless the clinician intercedes.
(4) This may be the opportunity for the profession to proceed with controlled quality assessment before outside agencies intercede.
(5) This technique also eliminates circumferential compression of the interceding tissues as well as providing easy access to the wound for daily care.
(6) Asked by Jon Snow whether he had interceded with the Saudis over the planned execution of the Shia activist Ali Mohammed al-Nimr, Cameron admitted he himself had not raised the issue directly but the foreign secretary and the embassy had.
(7) These data were interpreted to indicate that: (a) the effect(s) of trypsin in reversing (or preventing) tolerance at the cellular level does not depend necessarily on the susceptibility of the tolerogenic moiety to the action of the enzyme, and (b) the generation of the tolerance-inducing signal involves metabolic cellular processes that can be delayed somewhat by low temperature leaving such cells relatively more susceptible to intercedent manipulations such as trypsinization.
(8) Andreotti, who had interceded on behalf of endless supplicants like a true padrino (godfather), did not use his power to pursue personal wealth or to enhance the prospects of his closest relatives.
(9) The data provided offer further evidence that these homologues can intercede in blood coagulation.
(10) These results suggest that some patients with arteriovenous malformations and without clinical deficits who are near a critical level of "near ischemia" may be thrown out of balance by an acute interceding event.
(11) Because children with CLP have additional difficulties (i.e., facial disfigurement, speech and language deficits, multiple surgeries), professionals should intercede to prevent or interrupt negative psychosocial outcomes, particularly for adolescent girls.
(12) New adjuncts include two promising surgical barriers, one absorbable (oxygenated regenerated cellulose, or Intercede) and one nonabsorbable (polytetrafluoroethylene, or Gore-Tex).
(13) Thus it is possible to suppress both clinical signs and pathology by interceding at several steps of the cell-mediated immune reaction.
(14) She calls for other closet prolifers to become involved by praying and interceding, becoming informed by contracting prolife groups, spreading the word, voting for prolife candidates, and educating local media and elected officials.
(15) Treatment efforts in the past have focused on attempts to prevent such injury by interceding during labor in term infants and improving neonatal care in preterm infants.
(16) Both local and long-distance dependencies were explored, as well as the effects of additional interceding words.
(17) A decade later, during a long siege involving the Montana Freemen in 1996, outside intermediaries were so common the FBI allowed a clutch of them, including a couple who went off script and were never invited to intercede again.
(18) The ability of traditional sex therapy to intercede successfully in these problems is discussed.
(19) Ordinary Russians do the same to Putin during a yearly phone-in (in this year’s show, he gave a schoolgirl a puppy, and offered to intercede for a young man whose girlfriend wouldn’t marry him).
(20) The proper use of new diagnostic tests may permit the physician to intercede effectively if these life-threatening diseases are suspected.