Word: accept
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...don’t have to believe that each of us is made in the image and likeness of a Creator to accept at least that premise. And it will still be true whether the H-Bomb manages to, um, go off, or simply turns out to be more dud than stud,” he concluded...
...currently undertaken two important assignments: working to put together the form of the Iraqi government to which “limited authority” will be passed over on June 30, and preparing for eventual general elections. This posture may signal its preferred stance, that is to accept specific projects within areas of special competence but to avoid taking over the lead role. The U.N. has become reluctant to accept full responsibility for the so-called civilian side, not only because it can read the perilousness of the situation it would now inherit, but because of its well-founded fears...
...numerous homeless people she mindlessly steps over daily. Dazzled by her own benevolence, my dear friend eagerly approached the nearest vagabond and inquired: “Sir, would you like one of these sandwiches?” The man sneered, and shot back: “I only accept money.” Appalled, my friend walked to a dumpster—undoubtedly disregarding several other dispossessed—to make a sizeable deposit of untouched food. You see, the ungrateful man—who was, perhaps, mentally unstable—had confirmed my conservative friend’s deep...
...perfect start to the Arab world's first democracy. When those leaders turned out to have no followers except in Washington, the U.S. quietly tossed the entire political puzzle into the hands of a U.N. envoy named Lakhdar Brahimi and signaled, without saying so, that it would accept just about any group of interim leaders he can get into place by June 30, the date for the long-awaited hand-off of power to the Iraqis...
...pleased to see that the appeal of Harvard College remains very strong (for men and women both) and heartened by the evidence that women are this year at least as likely to accept our offer as men are,” McGrath Lewis writes in an e-mail...