grudging acceptance
collocation in Englishmeaningsofgrudgingandacceptance
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grudging
adjective
uk/ˈɡrʌdʒ.ɪŋ/us/ˈɡrʌdʒ.ɪŋ/
A grudging action or feeling is one that you do or ...
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acceptance
noun[U]
uk/əkˈsep.təns/us/əkˈsep.təns/
general agreement that something is satisfactory or right, or that someone should be included in ...
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This reading allows for a flexible understanding of action, one where there is scope for more thangrudgingacceptanceand open revolt.
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Responses ranged fromgrudgingacceptanceto strong aversion, to the symbolism and practical demands of management.
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I have sometimes been met with a kind ofgrudgingacceptanceof the idea that perhaps some design work requires considerable research, and that this could be published.
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There has been a partial andgrudgingacceptanceof part of the fire authority's case, but there is still the lunacy of £500,000 in re-billing costs.
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They will not be able to produce consent, but they might achieve slightly lessgrudgingacceptance.
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They again expressed agrudgingacceptanceof my answer.
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At best, we cannot expect even just taxes to gain more than agrudgingacceptancefrom the public.
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They have had to be dragged, kicking and screaming, to agrudgingacceptancethat legislation is today an imperative necessity.
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I am also sorry that there was a slightlygrudgingacceptanceof the board.
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This is not agrudgingacceptance, as a distinguished newspaper suggested.
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I detected in his speech agrudgingacceptancethat the lottery may be a very good thing indeed.
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There appears to have been agrudgingacceptanceof recommendation 6.38, on the systematic collection of information on the reliability of equipment.
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This is in no sense agrudgingacceptance.
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There wasgrudgingacceptancethat local income tax would be fair but that, for all the reasons that have been stated, there may be difficulties in implementing it.
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There wasgrudgingacceptanceinitially, certainly.
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Yet there has been agrudgingacceptanceof the value of sponsorship, or at any rate the necessity of sponsorship for sport and some areas of the arts.
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While such early biochemical techniques foundgrudgingacceptancein the evolutionary biology community, for the most part they did not impact the main theoretical problems of evolution and population genetics.
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