Word: acception
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Ultimately, students who live in Houses closer to the Yard enjoy many benefits by virtue of sleeping where they do. They should accept the consequences of their Houses’ convenient locations along with the perks and open their dining hall doors to those less fortunate...
...third film, the year is now 1983 and there has been another kidnapping in West Yorkshire, which is strikingly similar to those of 1974, forcing the police to accept that they may not have apprehended the right man. A washed up public defender John Piggott (Mark Addy) has taken on the case and strikes yet another blow at the white-collar crime that pervades the Police Department...
...part to a national grain surplus. Surprised burglars are spotlit by incandescent moons. Young lovers do amorous things in barley fields while dogs couple in dusty streets. Fauna make their appearance throughout Ko's work - he jabbers lovingly with crabs and cuttlefish and applauds croaking frogs and other critters. "Accept my respects, uncle boars," he offers in one poem. In another, he consoles an insect who shares his sunless cell at Seoul Prison: "I'm awake so I'm your comrade." (See pictures of Seoul...
...they lost in 1948, the balance of forces made that a futile goal. They decided to instead seek a state in the West Bank and Gaza as a more limited, but attainable objective. Hamas has not yet formally made such a shift, although its leaders are clearly moving toward accepting some version of a two-state outcome - and the more Hamas takes responsibility for the well-being of the residents of Gaza and the West Bank, the more likely they will be to accept Israel's existence as a bitter but inescapable compromise...
...That's because the law itself created the means for the PEPs in the Senate investigation to gain that access. The Patriot Act made it illegal for individuals or businesses in the U.S. to accept money generated by corruption abroad, deeming it as being complicit to money laundering. But in doing so, the law exempted hedge funds, realtors and escrow agents, and made it possible for foreign officials to use American lobbyists, lawyers and university officials to get around the money laundering...