accede to pressure

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
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • pressure
  • as regards
  • as regards somebody/something
  • tie (something) up in a bow
  • bow out of the running
  • pussycat
  • pussycat bow
  • pussy bow
  • bow down
  • bow down to (someone)
References in periodicals archive
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