On this occasion, with the Yemeni government's acquiescence, they decided to cut out the middle man.
It may be a negotiating bluff, designed to facilitate acquiescence to less outlandish, but still-insidious demands.
Now, based on the acquiescence of Defense Secretary Robert Gates and JCS Chairman Adm.
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Syria successfully digested Lebanon, but only because of Iranian support, American acquiescence and Israeli passivity.
This policy implies acquiescence in the banning of Jews from a future Palestinian state.
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"We hope we can get their acquiescence and support, otherwise we just need to proceed ahead, " she said.
With American acquiescence, Maliki and his Shi'ite allies already managed to effectively overturn the March 2010 election results.
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Liability is there to deter acquiescence by auditors, says Mr Coffee, not to create a fund to compensate investors.
With American acquiescence, their ostensibly sovereign decisions were subject to a Russian veto.
Recent history indicates it would be foolhardy to bank the acquiescence of German parliamentarians in advance of the fact.
Even so, firm recognition that Mr Putin is going in the wrong direction is much better than meek acquiescence.
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It seemed proof that a regime fond of numerology and superstition ruled neither by divine right nor by popular acquiescence, but by force.
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But Mr Saleh has skilfully played off tribes, parties and religious factions against each other or bribed their leaders into acquiescence.
In exchange for acquiescence to autocratic rule, the party delivers on the economy and largely stays out of people's private lives.
Rather it is widespread acquiescence by people who are fearful and demoralized.
Until recently the council's formal blessing for, or even its mere acquiescence in, the use of force had seemed a fast-receding possibility.
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History will only judge our collective silence as acquiescence to the tyranny of a process that we all hoped would bring us peace.
But the regime of Bashar Assad has been quick to exploit public nervousness over religious differences to secure acquiescence in his continued rule.
But William Cohen, the defence secretary, has managed to win, if not the support, the acquiescence of most of the other Gulf states.
Public acquiescence in these aerial killings demonstrates the way in which political and moral judgments can be driven by perceptions of personality and politics.
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Israel's acquiescence to the PLO's military presence on the outskirts of the city began a process of unraveling Israel's own claim to the city.
The success these regimes had in parlaying their acquiescence at the United Nations into tangible benefits should be as carefully studied by diplomats-in-training as Gen.
Behind the scenes, many governments are signalling acquiescence in America's plans.
Operation Lifeline is dependent on the acquiescence of the Khartoum Government.
Their best hope of avoiding war lies in their extraordinary acquiescence.
Washington, seemingly, would do anything it could to get Russian and Chinese approval, or at least acquiescence, to a UN mandate to remove Assad from power.
When turnout in an election for the state government in 2008 reached an unprecedented 60%, many Indians misread this as belated Kashmiri acquiescence in Indian rule.
In the months to come, expect the Obama Administration to demand the acquiescence of oil companies to a new and improved set of cap-and-trade carbon legislation.
The generals' acquiescence or active connivance in the proliferation of nuclear technology (or even, just conceivably, their ignorance of it) may have endangered the whole world.
They also seem to have secured the Bush Administration's acquiescence to the sinister strings attached to any bail-out of the West in which they might participate.
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