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In contrast with Mr. Graham’s comment that he had no answers, The Times has articulated a strategy that addresses many of the pressing questions facing newspapers, and it seems to have been yielding results.

From New York Times • Aug. 9, 2013

Temper rather than principle made him obstinate where he should have been yielding, as it had made him in Antioch yielding, where he should have been firm.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture: the Acts by Maclaren, Alexander

It was this sense, indeed, which had softened the humiliation and determined the actual steps of her homeward pilgrimage; she seemed to have been yielding to an actual external force in what she had done.

From Fenwick's Career by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

In view of present information it would not be surprising to find that a few might have been yielding upwards of 15 lbs. per annum.

From The Preparation of Plantation Rubber by Morgan, Sidney

Or he may simply have been yielding to natural sentiment.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture by Maclaren, Alexander