Word: accept
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...Going to Eastern Sprints, I was nervous,” Kitovitz admits. “But you’ve got to accept that Harry Parker is a legend, and if he has faith in me, I have faith...
...problem. The obscured woman, who can see her interlocutor clearly through her slits, is enjoying contact with a face; it's the other party, conversing with a tiny black tent, that bears the burden of the discomfort. It would be more sincere for niqab-wearers to say that they accept the cost of refusing to compromise on the niqab; that it will be considered provocative by their non-Muslim fellow citizens, that it might slow their own assimilation into British society...
...expected to have a significant deficit starting next year. In his letter, Knowles sounded an ominous alarm, writing, “[I]nstitutional interventions will help, to be sure, but they must also be accompanied by individual efforts. Each of us can help…by a willingness to accept that some costcutting measures will be necessary for the health and progress of the Faculty as a whole.” But the College’s successful investments in new academic initiatives and student life shouldn’t be on the chopping block. The Faculty?...
...nods to me, then takes his foot and gently steps on my mouth, pushing the tape back into place. To have this boy pushing my mouth closed with his foot - it is too much to accept...
...After days of beatings, Arar wrote a false statement saying he had been trained at a terror camp in Afghanistan. "I was ready to accept a 10-, 20-year sentence, and say anything, just to get to another place," he tells Grey in the book. After nearly a year in captivity, Arar was released and flew home to his family in Canada. A 1,200-page Canadian government report last month absolved him of any suspicion. Arar sued the U.S. government, but a New York federal judge dismissed the lawsuit on the ground that the case could not be heard...