Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...desk, the facts presented to him are as reliable as the U.S. Administration as a whole can make them, and the choices before him are clearly spelled out. If possible, the NSC and the Cabinet try to send up an agreed Administration position that he can either accept, reject or revise...
...Trembling with anger, dapper Antoine Pinay climbed back to the Assembly rostrum. "Twice I have warned the Assembly of the consequences of a violation of the Charter. An assault of passion and demagogy has led the Assembly to disregard the recommendations of its General Committee . . . My government refuses to accept any intervention of the U.N. . . . My government will consider as null and void any recommendation which the Assembly might make in this connection...
...program was under way, and the university's prestige had never been higher. In a sense, it had become the center of the territory's hopes for the future-the producer, as Ernest Patty had said, of "courageous young men and women who will go out and accept the challenge of the north country...
...even though most responsible military authorities abhor the Chinese atrocities, their Stoic code of conduct asks American prisoners to accept them without flinching. If the code allowed prisoners to sign all confessions demanded in violation of the Geneva Convention, on the other hand, the enemy's incentive for torture would disappear. The Communist captors would receive a plethora of confessions--the same confessions they now extract more painfully. Confessions signed so freely would convince no one who does not already believe the "confessions" Chinese Communists have obtained through unspeakable torture. Prisoners of war already carry too many burdens...
Although France has refused to accept the Assembly's decision. Sohn believes it would accept a decision from the International Court. "Though France is unwilling," he said, "to abide by a decision of the Assembly, which it considers patently unconstitutional, it has always in the past accepted court judgements...