Give in Sentence Examples

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  • She refused to give in to the nagging question of brain damage.

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  • But Natasha would not give in.

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  • Sooner or later, most people give in to a child's voice deep inside.

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  • The question of granting dispensations from such a vow gave rise to much canonical legislation, in which the papacy had finally to give in to the bishops.

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  • What we must not do in the face of a mortal threat is to give in to wishful thinking or willful blindness.

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  • Organic candy coated sunflower seeds are a delicious snack when you need to give in to a sweet craving.

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  • There are many reasons that researchers give in support of genetic modification.

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  • No matter how tempting it may be to give in to peer pressure, you'll feel better about yourself in the long run if you stay true to your morals and don't do anything that doesn't feel right to you.

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  • They key, as always, is never to give in when someone pressures you to do something you aren't comfortable with.

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  • It will hurt, you will feel horrible, but when they stop, you will be so glad that you didn't give in.

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  • The abuser uses threats and/or name-calling to get the senior to give in his or her demands.

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  • He wasn't going to give in until she ate a little crow.

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  • It took every ounce of her willpower not to flee hysterically or give in to the desire to collapse and sob.

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  • The tendency of the proportions in the offspring of 'PP, 2PN, INN is to give in a series of generations a regular reversion from the hybrid form PN to the two pure races, viz.

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  • No laboratories were accessible to ordinary students, who had to content themselves with what the universities could give in the lectureroom and the library, and though both at Bonn and Erlangen Liebig endeavoured to make up for the deficiencies of the official instruction by founding a students' physical and chemical society for the discussion of new discoveries and speculations, he felt that he could never become a chemist in his own country.

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  • He has recorded the fact that " the very first opinion which he ever was called upon to give in cabinet " was an opinion in favour of withdrawing the bill providing education for children in factories, to which vehement opposition was offered by the Dissenters, on the ground that it was too favourable to the Established Church.

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  • Papyri from a Jewish colony in Elephantine (407 B.C.) clearly show the form which royal permits could take, and what the Jews were prepared to give in return; the points of resemblance are extremely interesting, but compared with the biblical documents the papyri reveal some striking differences.

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  • One result of this foreign immigration, particularly from France and Italy, has been the rapid increase of Romanists, who now form the majority in the canton, while in the city they were still slightly less numerous than the Protestants in 1900; later (local) statistics give in the Canton 75,400 Romanists to 64,200 Protestants, and in the city 52,638 Romanists to 51,221 Protestants.

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  • As a preparation for this it is stated in the Code that it will be useful to give in Standard III.

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  • It has been thought necessary to give in detail the facts relating to the conversion of the logarithms, as unfortunately Charles Hutton in his history of logarithms, which was prefixed to the early editions of his Mathematical Tables, and was also published as one of his Mathematical Tracts, has charged Napier with want of candour in not telling the world of Briggs's share in the change of system, and he expresses the suspicion that " Napier was desirous that the world should ascribe to him alone the merit of this very useful improvement of the logarithms."

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  • Reference should also be made to Hoppe's Tafeln zur dreissigstelligen logarithmischen Rechnung (Leipzig, 1876), which give in a somewhat modified form a table of the hyperbolic logarithm of + Irn.

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  • As an example of the accuracy obtained we give in the following Table the figures for potassium.

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  • The wall of the hyphae of the fungus give in the young state the ordinary reactions of cellulose but older material shows somewhat different reactions, similar to those of the so-called fungus-cellulose.

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  • Indefatigable in sifting original documents, Aubigne had amassed a wealth of authentic information; but his desire to give in all cases a full and graphic picture, assisted by a vivid imagination, betrayed him into excess of detail concerning minor events, and in a few cases into filling up a narrative by inference from later conditions.

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  • On his arrival from Rome in 1847 he acted as informal diplomatic envoy from the pope, to ascertain from the government what support England was likely to give in carrying out the liberal policy with which Pius inaugurated his reign.

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  • Historians have been at a loss to know what Solomon could give in exchange for the gold of Ophir and the costly gifts of the queen of Sheba.

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  • Here it is proposed only to give in somewhat more detail the causes of division which led (I) to the formation of the schismatic churches of the East, and (2) to the open rupture with Latin Christianity.

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  • It would be impossible to give in detail here all the precautions necessary for the successful use of the methods, and the descriptions will therefore be confined to the principles involved and the general manner in which they are applied to secure the desired results.

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  • In 379 Theodosius, after reorganizing the army at Thessalonica, carried on a successful campaign of skirmishes along the Danube and induced numerous Gothic bands to give in their allegiance; his lieutenant Modares, a Gothic refugee, defeated the invaders severely in Thrace.

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  • Professor Belich of Belgrade University has tried to give in the Servian Dialectological Compendium (Belgrade, 1905) a new division of the Servian dialects into five groups, viz.

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  • The north and Iona on the other hand refused to give in until Adamnan induced the north of Ireland to yield in 697, while Iona held out until 716, although by this time the monastery had lost its influence in Pictland.

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  • Indium salts can be recognized by the dark blue colour they give in the flame of the Bunsen burner; and by the white beads of metal and the yellow incrustation formed when heated on charcoal with sodium carbonate.

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  • However my body might cry craven, my mind luckily had no mind to give in.

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  • Their only alternative is to become submissive, to give in or they will never walk out of that place.

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  • He referred him to the rather tedious answers we tended to give in these situations.

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  • In fact, I have it fairly tight, but still with enough give in it to allow me to bend notes.

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  • Another purpose civil disobedience serves is to make society so ungovernable that the authorities must give in to restore order.

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  • Putting aside fantastic theories, these observers endeavoured to give in their classifications a strictly objective representation of the facts of animal structure and of the structural relationships of animals to one another capable of demonstration.

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  • Can Max control his temptation of stealing the last jewel or will he give in and complete his life 's work?

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  • If bad Jews bully our gentile rulers, why are they such wimps that they give in to it?

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  • He did not want to give in to the low offer, but the buyer began using coercion until he accepted it.

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  • Remain relaxed, and don't give in to the urge to finish your little one's words or phrases.

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  • Many parents give in to their toddler's demands, especially in a public place, just so the child will quickly quiet down.

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  • As we get older, everything seems to give in to gravity's southern draw (if you know what I mean ), so by keeping everything up, we are trying to reverse the cycle of aging!

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  • And finally, don't give in to the bantering about being a wuss, either.

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  • No one has written how much you should give in stone.

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  • Shorts made with spandex offer give in the hips and thighs as you go through your day-to-day movements.

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  • You are sometimes required to make a choice on what type of verbal response the Bard will give in certain situations.

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  • It translates as, Do not give in to misfortune.

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  • Don't give in to the low carb craze, drink the wine you love in moderation and you will never have to compromise on quality for the sake of shaving a few carbs from your diet.

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  • You can also create a custom label for your wine to give in a personal touch.

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  • Do not overuse or give in doses larger than those labeled.

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  • If the upset has occurred over something the child wants and has been denied, it is tempting to give in to the child's wishes, but doing so can be harmful because it teaches children that they can get what they want by having a tantrum.

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  • Some kids give in to peer pressure because they want to be liked, to fit in, or because they worry that other kids may make fun of them if they do not go along with the group.

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  • Some parents worry that stress might bring on a seizure and are therefore unwilling to discipline a child with a seizure disorder and might give in to the usual childish demands.

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  • Did I give in to my spouse or partner just because s/he wanted another child, even though I do not?

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  • When shopping for toys, it can be easy to give in to the latest and greatest invention.

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  • It's no wonder Hollywood couples often give in to the temptation and loneliness.

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  • Doing so will only send the pair of you into an exhausting conversation that goes around and around, until finally, exasperated, you give in.

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  • This man so deeply wants a loving, cosmic and spiritual connection that he'll ignore any of your flaws, place you on a pedestal and give in to all your whims.

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  • Enjoy the attention and don’t give in too soon or the excitement will be over once he catches up with you.

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  • Permissive parents often feel as if they "have to" give in to avoid crying or a temper tantrum.

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  • While this certainly doesn't mean that parents need to give in to their kids' every whim, it does mean that these parents know how to listen to their children and empathize with their feelings.

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  • You frequently give in to your child to avoid a confrontation.

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  • Resist the temptation to give in to all of those adorable shoes available in the stores.

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  • This doesn't mean a parent has to give in if his eye is set on a $500, funky purple polka-dotted pair -- give him a choice of three or four pairs and let him make the decision.

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  • It worked, listeners tuned in to hear what would happen and what advice her characters would give in the ongoing daytime drama.

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  • Beaded watch bands are either threaded using elastic thread which allows some give in the band, allowing it to be fitted over the wrist while still sitting snuggly on the arm, or strung onto a bead wire or thread with no stretch.

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  • If your blood sugar isn't stable, you're more likely to give in to those powerful sugar cravings.

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  • Remember that age and gravity have a lot to do with sagging body parts, but this doesn't mean you have to give in to getting older!

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  • Most women will eventually give in and pick the item with the smaller or larger cup size and simply pick a smaller or larger band size.

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  • Unlike the stereotypical image of a woman in a polygamist marriage being there to have a large number of children, she is under no real pressure to give in to her husband's demands.

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  • The Brothers were required to sleep in their pants, shirts, belts and boots so they did not give in to the human comfort of undressing.

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  • Some designers give in and stick with web safe fonts, while other designers bend over backwards to develop an approach that allows them to utilize any font they wish.

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  • His advice had been to give in to Darkyn.

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  • The last two branches of inquiry are regarded as forming but a single body of doctrine in the well-known passage of the Theory of Moral Sentiments in which the author promises to give in another discourse "an account of the general principles of law and government, and of the different revolutions they have undergone in the different ages and periods of society, not only in what concerns justice, but in what concerns police, revenue and arms, and whatever else is the subject of law."

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  • The adherents of the " old " and the " new religions alike had to justify their views to the unlearned as well as to the learned, and to give in simple formulas their reasons for the faith that was in them.

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  • He refused to give in his allegiance to the emperor Napoleon III., and in 1860 accepted the command of the papal army, which he led in the Italian campaign of 1860.

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  • Musa hesitated, but was compelled to give in.

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  • So they were all willing to give in for the sake of peace.

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