Word: accept
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...Bridge to the Mainland? Thank you for bringing attention to Taiwan with the report "Strait Talker," about Ma Ying-jeou's presidential campaign [March 24]. It is true that nowadays we Taiwanese care about our identity and true spirit more and more. We will never accept losing our sovereignty and, I deeply believe, neither will the two presidential hopefuls. Taiwan is a unique and beautiful country whose fate lies in the hands of its own people, not those of any other country. We are all expecting a change for Taiwan. World, just wait and see. Vivian Wei-An Tsai, Taichung...
...this, President Robert Mugabe is trying to block democratic change that challenges his 28-year rule. But he and his party, the Zimbabwe African National Union?Patriotic Front, do not regard the people's votes as the arbiter of power - or, if they do in theory, they do not accept in practice that they could ever lose an election. In Mugabe's eyes, his right to rule derives from his status as the leader of the liberation movement, the breaker of white power and the creator of Zimbabwe. Whatever happens in the days to come, this is a watershed moment...
...Admitted students must reply by May 1 to accept or decline their spot in the Class...
...have any targets or quotas on the number of students admitted from a particular school,” McGrath said. “It certainly has been true that we have had a number from Deep Springs, and I would be surprised if they would not apply once we accept transfer applicants again...
...says specialists in at least three French hospitals offered Sébire an operation with a relatively good chance of success - upwards of 70% full success in most cases - though they couldn't promise no potential risk of death or incapacity, which Sébire would simply not accept. When she subsequently refused the treatment and medicine he and the other doctors had been recommending, Béal recalls Sébire explaining to him that "drugs are chemicals, chemicals are poison, and I won't make matters worse by poisoning myself." In the end, however, Sébire...