Word: accept
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...strength for four years has been her humbleness and her willingness to accept what she needed to do for the team,” Delaney-Smith says...
Rallies around the country, from Boston to San Francisco, are raising the consciousness of a nation. We are not willing to accept the illogical and inane arguments of the religious right. The website of the Alliance for Marriage, a coalition formed to encourage “more children raised in a home with a mother and a father,” cites an article asserting that “‘gay marriage’ devalues women.” The article states emphatically that women (or men) would be rendered superfluous in a world of same-sex marriages?...
...full faith and credit clause, which generally requires states to recognize one another's laws and state court judgments. But states have long been allowed to refuse to recognize other states' marriages that violate their own social policies. For instance, for a time some Southern states refused to accept interracial marriages performed elsewhere...
...only 14 Senators who voted against DOMA, which he described as an instance of "gay bashing on the floor of the United States Senate." Yet on Good Morning America last week Kerry said a federal amendment was unnecessary because DOMA shielded states that did not want to accept gay marriage--which put him in the awkward position of pointing out the usefulness of a law he voted against. Bush's position has been adjustable too. In a 2000 presidential debate he said states "can do what they want" on gay marriage. And Vice President Dick Cheney, whose daughter Mary...
...Iraq. Americans can't have it both ways. Either we must be willing to undertake pre-emptive actions against governments and groups that are known to be inimical to our nation and might carry out acts of terrorism against us, or we must be willing to accept civilian casualties because we are unwilling to act against terrorists. DEAN EPPLER Houston...