Word: relenting
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...deuce a few times, but we ended up losing. So it was 3-1 now. Larry did not seem happy. He really wanted to win, and I was obviously the reason we kept losing. I began trying desperately to send psychic signals to Ben and Kenyon, begging them to relent...
...with our resilience and remind our allies of our resolve. It has fallen to Vice President Cheney, a nighthawk with a darker imagination, to focus our fears. The risks of inaction outweigh the risks of action, he warned this summer, because we face an enemy that will never relent and never recede until it is destroyed...
...March 2002 that corporate accounting had taken $400 million out of his reserve account and used it to boost WorldCom's income. But when Cooper went to Andersen to inquire about the maneuver, she was told matter-of-factly that it was not a problem. When she didn't relent, Sullivan angrily told Cooper that everything was fine and she should back off. He was furious at her, according to a person involved in the matter. Cooper, concerned that her job might be in jeopardy, cleaned out personal items from her office...
...abrupt policy change followed a familiar pattern for the Bush team: resist, resist, resist--especially if Bill Clinton championed it--then relent when reality intrudes. Brazil, with Latin America's No. 1 economy and the world's ninth largest, was simply too big to fail. The fallout would have rocked Wall Street, where major U.S. banks and businesses have huge exposure--more than $100 billion in loans and investments. While diehard ideologues cried betrayal, the business-first wing of the G.O.P. was delighted by the Administration's about-face. "The bank stocks are all up," said a Republican operative...
...violence. (89.5% of the state's population is Hindu and just 8.5% Muslim.) That provoked an uproar in New Delhi's Parliament last week, as the opposition accused the ruling party of backing Modi, the leader of the Gujarat BJP. But Deputy Prime Minister L.K. Advani did not relent. "You abuse a Chief Minister day in and day out and then expect him not to go to the people?" he argued. "The Chief Minister needs a certificate of the people of Gujarat and he will get that." No doubt, analysts say. "The Hindu chauvinist government is looking for the Hindu...