Word: accept
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Though it has a constitutional duty to give the President its "advice and consent" on treaties, the U.S. Senate exerts little influence on American foreign policy. The Chief Executive, as in most countries today, runs his country's foreign relations. Most Senators reluctantly accept their ever more limited role in this area; some do not. It is thus a measure of Johnson's declining prestige in Congress that the Senate should have seriously considered a resolution declaring that national commitments to foreign governments would henceforth be binding only when Congress agreed on them with the President...
...Hussein were trying to work out a formula for negotiations through a U.N. mediator. Both rulers had made known their willingness, if not to sign a formal peace treaty, at least to end their 20-year "state of hostilities" with Israel. But the Israelis are in no mood to accept such half-measures. They are now convinced that it is much wiser to hold on to what they have than acquiesce in what Eshkol refers to as "obscure and meaningless formulas like declarations of the cessation of belligerency without a real peace settlement...
...hitting at the Lords, Wilson took on one of Britain's most venerable institutions. It was the Lords, of course, that laid the basis for British democracy by forcing King John to accept Magna Carta in 1215. In the 14th century the Lords began to share their parliamentary power with the Commons, but it nonetheless managed to remain the dominant house until the 19th century. Three times in the 20th century British governments have significantly changed the Lords. Its power to delay legislation passed by the House of Commons was cut to two years in 1911 and cut again...
...been those of radical theologians urging the church to greater involvement with world issues. The mood of activism reached a peak in Detroit last month, where the Conference on Church and Society, sponsored by the National Council of Churches, exhorted U.S. religious leaders to grant sanctuary to draft dodgers, accept violence as a valid response to certain social injustices, and incite a nationwide strike if the war escalates into an invasion of North Viet...
...Board examined closely the wording of the petition and found it inadequate of itself to establish presence. After considerable discussion, however, the Board did accept my judgment as establishing a reasonable certainty of presence, and voted to place the men involved on probation...