relenting

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• Democrats had been pushing for the change, and Republicans, who had been opposed, relented after Chafin’s death.

• It wasn’t until the race’s final months — “unwillingly and only under severe pressure” from his campaign managers, as one newspaper story put it — that he relented and installed one at his farm near Germantown.

• Democrats initially resisted on grounds that the hearing was politically charged — and too close to the election — though they later relented.

• Rudin initially relented, but eventually pulled out of the project after a long list of directors also declined.

• During a stretch of big trail efforts this summer, I finally relented and felt no embarrassment—only comfort, satiation, and hydration.

• For an instant she stood and looked at her husband, in what might have been relenting or anticipation of the road she had to take.

• No relenting on the part of the Rebels, but savage, infuriate joy at the sight of the warm heart's blood of their victims!

• Is there no pity, no relenting ruth, Points to the parents fondling o'er their child?

• The boys came rather sheepishly to see him off; but he would make no show of relenting.

• The strangest thing of all to me,” Mrs. Halliday declared, “is his relenting toward his daughter after all these years.