Word: acceptable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...indeed in the wrong homes. The scientific Solomon patiently explained the tests to the mothers with color charts, but they remained distraught. Said one: "I know you are logically right, but if I talk to you from the bottom of my heart, it's difficult for me to accept what you say." Added the mother of the twins: "It sounds so easy going through a change, but only a mother knows the meaning of such a thing...
...Professor Abraham Goldstein. But in plea bargaining it is generally the prosecutor and not the judge who in effect decides whether and for how long a defendant is going to jail. Indeed, American Bar Association standards forbid judges to participate in bargaining, because the defendant would feel coerced to accept the judge's recommendation. Whether judges do participate varies from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. Often, says Alschuler, they do it implicitly, with veiled threats, cajolery, hints, nods and winks...
...Open to the World. He should know the world as it is, in its glory and in its misery; should accept what is good, wherever it be found...
...should accept critically the findings of contemporary science; he should abandon the outmoded curial style and should speak credibly in the language of people in this...
...should accept the Synod of Bishops not simply as an advisory body but as a responsible, decision-making organ of the church, and he should extend concrete competence to the episcopal conferences and the diocesan councils...