Word: accept
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Newsom's daring actions may end up being merely symbolic. Sacramento officials say they won't accept the licenses on bureaucratic grounds. But that doesn't put a dent in the happiness of those newlyweds under the rotunda. And Newsom? "My reward at the end of the day is that I can live with myself," he says. "I did my job and had a conscience. That's more powerful than being mayor...
...lynch mob; they are a group of elders searching for common ground, trying to understand a young rebel who gives them no quarter. ("I beg you, bring peace to our gathering tonight.") The rabbis here are burdened with too much religious lore, or have too little imagination, to accept that the ragged fellow is God. In a way, they don't condemn him; he condemns them. Nobody's blood gets on anybody's children...
This year is no different, and I can’t accept your contention that the big awards are predictable, because I disagree with two of your choices and foresee possible upsets in two others. Peter Jackson and his trilogy have pulled so far ahead in the Director and Picture races that their competitors can barely see them, even if they happen to be blind...
...will never be in the New York Times Sunday Styles section. It’s a realization I’m slowly coming to accept, although it does not come without a great deal of sadness. I don’t mind that I’ll never be in one of those “Cute is The New Pretty, Dirty is the New Clean” trend articles on the cover. The upsetting part is the knowledge that I’ll never make the second-to-last page spread—the wedding section...
...those people, it’s more that I want the chance to be one of them—and then I want to turn it down, preferably in a really sarcastic way. I have no interest in being part of a club that would accept me as a member. But I still want to be asked to join...