Word: accepter
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...sport for which they maintain this stance. The sacrifices required, they wrongly claim, would detract from their student-athletes’ studies, and the pressure to hold even with scholarship schools would force the further lowering of admissions requirements for football players, which no one is quite prepared to accept...
...cynical harboring of historical grievances for political gain. They claim that despite the mild thaw last week, China is, by its own choice, virtually unappeasable. Tomohiko Taniguchi, a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., says, "You're looking at a neighbor who doesn't want to accept any apology." Despite Koizumi's words of contrition last weekend (which, according to some counts, would mark the 22nd time Japan has apologized) and the $35 billion of foreign aid Japan has given to China over the years, some of these observers fear that Chinese leaders will continue to play...
...accept that there is a trust issue?" the BBC's Jeremy Paxman asked Blair in an interview last week. Blair agreed but clumsily tried to spin it toward "trusting" Labour to sustain Britain's strong economy. Paxman, a brilliant barracuda, would have none of that: "All right, let's look at Iraq. When you told Parliament that the intelligence was 'extensive, detailed and authoritative,' that wasn't true, was it?" It took Blair some minutes of squirming before he could get around to making the case that Iraq was better off without Saddam, that 8 million Iraqis had voted...
Kudos to Pope John Paul II for showing how to reconcile oneself to death and die with dignity. He chose to accept death and seek mercy while awaiting his entrance into another life. In a society that does not readily accept death as part of the continuum, the Pope gave a final lesson in faith by the way he faced his own death...
...there was a caring family and a dispute over personal preferences, why didn't the judicial system favor life? On abortion, those of us who believe in federalism (states' rights) are nearly as offended by the process of judicial fiat as we are by the abortion procedure. I would accept legalized abortion if the people in my state voted for it--although I would work to have it banned in a future election. But the passion we conservatives display on the issue is inflamed because an illegitimate judicial process resulted in an immoral conclusion...