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“We cannot in good conscience accede to their request,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 2026

"These threats do not change our position: we cannot in good conscience accede to their request," Amodei said.

From BBC ● Feb. 26, 2026

"These threats do not change our position: we cannot in good conscience accede to their request," Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei said in a statement.

From Barron's ● Feb. 26, 2026

Thursday, Amodei doubled down on his objections, saying that while the company continues to negotiate and wants to work with the Pentagon, “we cannot in good conscience accede to their request.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2026

What could she do but accede, praying that her father would live until her return?

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

When Simo joined OpenAI, her new company acceded to the wishes of her old company, Kundu said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 2, 2026

The hospital acceded to most of this request, but did not provide the identities of its child patients and their families and their confidential medical files.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 2, 2025

His fellow diplomats acceded, but that says nothing about what Golani does.

From Slate ● Dec. 9, 2024

In a statement, it said its forces at Al Shifa had acceded to a request from its director to "expand and assist" in further voluntary evacuations via a "secure route".

From Reuters ● Nov. 18, 2023

Fie continued to provide Segre with metal scraps and even acceded to Segre’s request to irradiate a quantity of uranium oxide mailed from Italy so that he could continue searching for nuclear reactions.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

In response, Samsung's management said the talks failed because "acceding to the labour union's excessive demands would risk undermining the fundamental principles of the company's management".

From Barron's ● May 20, 2026

The apartheid government under President F.W. de Klerk dismantled its nuclear weapons and associated facilities in an orderly process—before acceding to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 1, 2026

Despite not acceding to the family’s request for life sentences, they said they were happy with the outcome and that justice had been served.

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2024

But to many in the profession, acceding to Mr. Kaczynski’s demands set a terrible precedent, undermining journalistic independence and doing the bidding of law enforcement.

From New York Times ● Jun. 11, 2023

A few years prior, Mrs. Piatigorsky had been criticized in some quarters for not acceding to Fischer’s demands for the 1963 tournament, which had led to his not playing.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady