The test of their abilities is not a career-long wait for grudging acceptance.
Most pathologists have a grudging respect for the tenacity and success of plant pathogens.
In 1859 the Danubian principalities, deliberately left separate by the Congress of Paris, carried out their long-cherished design of union by electing Prince Cuza both in Moldavia and in Walachia, a contingency which the powers had not taken into account, and to which in the end they gave a grudging assent (see Rumania).
A somewhat grudging acquiescence from the old man gave me a clear day in which to make my observations.
The new practice was received at first with contempt and even ridicule, and afterwards by Stoll and Peter Frank with only grudging approval.
