Word: accept
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...Abdul Rahim Noor, accept responsibility for the ... assault. The pain and hurt caused to you and to your family is deeply regretted." RAHIM NOOR, former Malaysian police chief, in a statement apologizing for the beating of former Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim during Anwar's controversial 1998 arrest on sodomy and corruption charges...
...added that the OMB was not yet sure if it could accept the $100,000 prize under federal regulations...
...this slippery slide from "reason" to science, Sch?nborn is a direct descendant of the early 17th century Dutch clergyman and astronomer David Fabricius, who could not accept Johannes Kepler's discovery of elliptical planetary orbits. Why? Because the circle is so pure and perfect that reason must reject anything less. "With your ellipse," Fabricius wrote Kepler, "you abolish the circularity and uniformity of the motions, which appears to me increasingly absurd the more profoundly I think about it." No matter that, using Tycho Brahe's most exhaustive astronomical observations in history, Kepler had empirically demonstrated that the planets orbit elliptically...
This month marks the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II, when atom bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki drove Japan to accept defeat in history's bloodiest conflict. Japan has focused on peaceful economic development over the intervening six decades, and can take much of the credit for Asia's 20th century boom. But recent debate over issues such as Japan's bid for a permanent seat on the U.N. Security Council, or reforms to its pacifist constitution to allow a standing army, has made some of its neighbors uneasy...
...continue to practice your culture when you're surrounded by people who don't do the same as you do. This includes those who have the same culture as you but choose to ignore it and encourage you to ignore it too. But I believe we must grasp and accept our differences because it is these differences that make each...