Give up
Give up verb - To give (something) over to the control or possession of another usually under duress.
Protest
Protest verb - To state as a fact usually forcefully.
Both terms in one sentence
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The people who know him mostly give up after a token protest and wait in patience until he falls over.
Source: I Can Still Fight -
If anyone should discover Makoto's secret he must give up his aspirations to act and accept to run the dojo without protest.
Source: Manga / W Juliet - Moral Guardians: Protests by the Mickey Mouse Club strangle Playboy magazine in its cradle, kill Marilyn Monroe's career, stifle America's counterculture and drive it overseas, and, by stringently supporting segregation, cause the Civil Rights Movement to give up non-violent protest.
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