Word: accepter
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While De Stefano has come to accept his retirement and looks forward to “less day-to-day responsibility,” the restaurateur also wonders whether changing social patterns may have added to his cafe’s demise...
...hardly been relegated to the sidelines. In early June, he convinced Chad's President, Lieut. General Idriss Deby, to allow a French military airdrop of relief supplies to refugees who had fled there from Darfur. On his trip to Khartoum, he also helped convince Sudan's General Bashir to accept some U.N. troops in Darfur. A week later, Kouchner joined Sarkozy in Brussels for an all-night blizzard of lobbying over the new E.U. treaty. One day later, he dined in his office with Condoleezza Rice, on her official first visit to see him. Gushing enthusiastically at each other...
...entry of outsiders such as journalists into communities will be largely scrapped, and Howard wants traditional Aboriginal law removed as a mitigating factor in criminal sentencing. He agrees they're drastic measures: "It is interventionist, it does push aside the role of the Territory to some degree-I accept that," he said on June 21. "But what matters more, the constitutional niceties or the care and protection of young children...
...aunt's sanguine demeanor is a lesson that I will carry in my mind from now on. Unpleasant events are out of human control, and it is necessary to accept the good along with the bad. As the protagonist of the unsuccessful existential comedy, “I Heart Huckabees,” remarks, "No manure, no magic...
There's already been legal grumbling, for example, over plans that require state universities in Texas to accept for admission students who rank in a top percentage of their high school class. The idea is that at least some minorities will be in that percentage, allowing the state to create diversity without considering race...