accede to pressure

To bow down or yield to pressure from an outside force, especially as regards a political, business, or military action or decision. Congress was forced to accede to pressure from the public and abandon its proposal to increase taxes.

See also: accede, pressure

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president Jimmy Carter told a press conference: "The Chinese government is putting pressure on the officials in Nepal (a[bar]) and my hope is that the Nepali government will not accede to pressure from any other country and abuse or interfere with these peoples' lives."

Burning For Freedom: Crisis In Nepal As Tibetan Monks Self-Immolate And China Cracks Down

Clinton had been widely expected to accede to pressure from the Pentagon and the Department of Energy to permit a resumption of testing after a nine-month moratorium imposed by Congress expired July 1.

Test ban politics proliferate under Clinton: bans go only so far when other nations refuse to do the same