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bow to demands

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bow to someone's demands
Fig. to yield to someone's demands; to agree to do something that someone has requested. In the end, they had to bow to our demands. We refused to bow to their demands that we abandon the project.
See also: bow, demand


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US television network NBC said Friday it will broadcast an interview with Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad from Tehran, as the country faces a deadline to bow to demands to halt its nuclear program.
Giving no indication of whether he would bow to demands for tax cuts, Darling repeated his pledge to reconsider the 2p fuel duty rise due to come into effect in October.
Musharraf has thus far refused to bow to demands to rescind the state of emergency he imposed on Nov.
 
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