The act of accommodation entails a process more similar to an art rather than a science. With respect to individual to individual and group to group relations, those involved must constantly weigh situations, interactions, and relations, historical and contemporary, and try, as best they can, to have their actions and attitudes fit and reflect specific ongoing events. The term accommodation has been used to describe intergroup relations between dominant and nondominant groups, and between the powerful and the powerless. Indeed, the act of accommodation may simply reflect times when groups bide their time until they are re able to fight numerically and militarily stronger groups at another time and place. Thus accommodation may reflect a momentary “giving in.” Accommodation internationally may represent appeasement when, in the case of Neville Chamberlain's stance towards Nazi Germany, fascist Italy, and imperial Japan, the act of accommodating to them was seen by their leaders as a sign of weakness, thus precipitating the plunge into World War II.