Pakistan's army is not the only arm of government quietly acquiescing with the programme, however.

But in the view of the profoundly bitter people who live nearby, the Government quietly acquiesced in the agonizing sicknesses and deaths of friends and family.

Most of them quietly acquiesced when King Wenceslaus proclaimed an ambivalent arrangement at Cheb (Eger) in 1389 which prohibited all leagues between cities, while confirming their political autonomy.

The press registers the passing of events, often serving more as an official gazette than a critical institution, and the public quietly acquiesces.

Politicians love to howl about media bias and dishonesty, but nothing infuriates them more than media refusal to acquiesce quietly in retailing the biased fictions of politicians.

What might "many of his generation" - who are indeed the men now commanding in Iraq - have said, had they not themselves quietly acquiesced?

Those Girondists who still remained in Paris quietly acquiesced to the demands of the Jacobins, who now controlled the French government.

They quietly acquiesced, sitting back down until Corsi and Konya's little op was over.

That plan has created one of the few genuine environmental controversies in a country that, until recently, quietly acquiesced in almost any idea that involved pouring concrete for profit.

The states are chiefly to blame for this, of course, but the Feds quietly acquiesce.