Word: accepter
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...critics seized on the incident-and on Abe's refusal to fire Yanagisawa-as evidence that the administration can't handle the demographic issue. "The Health Ministry deals with grave fundamental social issues like the decreasing population," says Yoshiaki Takaki, the DPJ's Diet policy chief. "We cannot accept that it is headed by someone who has demonstrated a complete lack of respect for people...
...produce any additional nuclear weapons. In 60 days' time, we'll know if even this modest goal can be reached. Now that the previous objective of achieving complete, verifiable and irreversible dismantlement looks increasingly unrealistic, the question boils down to this: Should the rest of the world accept a North Korea that has nuclear weapons as long as that number isn't increasing...
...necessary step to maintain the nation's official commitment to secularism, pointing out that it also applies to Jewish skullcaps and Christian crosses. But Birgit Sauer, a political scientist at the University of Vienna, says the timing of these new laws shows that Europe is still unwilling to accept Islam as an element of its identity. "All these states had trouble balancing religion with secularism long before Sept. 11," she says. "So you have to ask, Why now? What is European and what is not?" That's a question Sauer and other researchers hope to answer with the veil project...
...other religious symbols), but leave decisions on dress codes to individual institutions and organizations. So while one school might prohibit teachers from wearing the niqab in class, another might not, giving Muslim teachers a choice of where to work. In return, women who cover would have to accept that in certain situations - at passport control, say - security concerns trump personal beliefs and they would be required to show their faces. In practice, this balance between policy and piety isn't uncommon. All over Europe, governments and religious minorities are meeting in the middle. Under English law, Jewish religious courts have...
...extract a few commitments. Riley agreed to have officers undergo intensive report-writing seminars led by state prosecutors; Jordan endorsed the idea of placing prosecutors in police precincts around the clock, so reports could be reviewed in a matter of hours, not days. And he agreed, sort of, to accept the results of field drug testing kits as evidence in some cases to prevent 701 releases, rather than the more time-consuming but superior lab tests...