Translation of "Vereinnahmen lassen" in English

I can stop and be taken in by things.

He has never let demands be placed upon him.

We must not allow ourselves to be completely monopolised by technology.

Poland's government has been duped by the far right, Newsweek Polska rails:

Sitaru doesn't want to let himself to be co-opted by the film industry and attaches great importance to artistic independence.

I agree that we must yet discuss this critically but I would ask you not to allow yourselves to be affected by particular ministerial interests.

The question is whether the ECB needs to have itself drawn into the political realm in this way at all or whether its role is purely advisory.

I try not to get too involved in the games I watch on TV, but I always end up in a bad mood if my favorite team loses.

The regulators were “captured” – meaning that they identified so closely with the intellectual perspective and worldview of large complex financial institutions that they were persuaded to allow something that was actually very dangerous.

In other words, key European states remain just as captured by financial interests as the American state ever was.

We refused to be co-opted by the various Ethiopian political forces, which tend to be divided along ideological, ethnic and religious lines.

This has given rise to the so-called GONGOs, which are always sympathetic to the government, while the others feel obliged to allow themselves to be monopolised by foreign donors, i.e. to pursue the more complicated path of the third NGO group described above, especially as the state taxes income from civil society services as private income and appears to be becoming stricter at enforcing this provision.

Here we find a strong appeal for us too not to let ourselves be totally absorbed by the activities, problems and preoccupations of every day, forgetting that Jesus must truly be the centre of our life.

Poland's government has been duped by the far right, Newsweek Polska rails: We have the ruling PiS party to thank for the images going...

Sulzberger claims that he was never formally "tasked" by the Agency and that he "would never get caught near the spook business.

Particularly in Western Europe, many artists vigorously rejected their governments' attempts to co-opt them.

I think that two aspects are especially characteristic of him: Buñuel was a very independent spirit, which means that he didn't let himself get taken in by anything, either by his Spanish heritage, his Catholic upbringing, nor by the his closeness for a certain time to the Surrealists and left-wing movements.