Accept
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The internal debates will be heated and their conclusions difficult for some to
accept.
And, for every celebrity who donates time to fighting obesity, there are a dozen who
accept
large payments to hawk products, such as ultra-sugary drinks, that are arguably the tobacco of our generation.
Otherwise, a rapid escalation of yields in the bond market might be necessary for the public to
accept
that there is a problem, and for politicians to have the room to resolve it.
Trump has forced South Korea to
accept
a new trade deal, and has sought to squeeze India’s important information technology industry – which generates output worth $150 billion per year – by imposing a restrictive visa policy.
As for Japan, last month Trump forced a reluctant Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to
accept
a new trade framework that the US views as a precursor to negotiations on a bilateral free-trade agreement.
And Prime Minister David Cameron has painted himself into a corner by demanding EU reforms that even the Germans – who are sympathetic to the UK – cannot
accept.
The need to communicate effectively, together with market forces, produces a powerful incentive to master English and
accept
a degree of assimilation.
To maintain its current population size, Japan, for example, would have to
accept
350,000 newcomers a year for the next 50 years, which is difficult for a culture that has historically been hostile to immigration.
The question now is not whether the German government will
accept
it, but when.
Cuba needs to return to the regional concert of powers, but it must
accept
this concert’s rules.
Trump’s obsession with winning and inability to
accept
a balance of power constitute a dire threat.
To be sure, no state can passively
accept
rocket attacks on its cities.
If Syria in turn accepts Lebanon’s sovereignty, and if it helps force Hezbollah into becoming a political force shorn of its military power, Israel and America ought to persuade Lebanon’s government to
accept
that Syria and Lebanon need to consult each other in security matters.
Such a diplomatic opening may be hard for Israel’s prime minister, Ehud Olmert, to accept, let alone to sell to Israelis.
In reality, the coup leaders’ main concern was to avoid admitting what they had been doing since 2010: extending a generalized bankruptcy into the future by forcing Greece to
accept
new, European taxpayer-funded loans, conditional on ever-greater austerity that could only shrink Greek national income further.
Greece experienced collectively the treatment Britain’s poor receive when they claim benefits at Job Centers, where they must
accept
responsibility for their humiliation by affirming condescending platitudes such as: “My only limitations are the ones I set for myself.”
Palestinians have shown that they are willing to
accept
minor and agreed-upon land swaps, and will be open to creative ideas for solving the problem of Jerusalem, possibly following the parameters set out by US President Bill Clinton at the end of his second term.
Including non-member countries could undermine ASEAN’s unity; but that is a tradeoff ASEAN member states will have to
accept
if they decide to adhere strictly to consensus decision-making.
The imperatives are clear: first, the army must
accept
that the social and economic needs of Pakistan's people come first and that it must be downsized to live within Pakistan's means.
In fact, developments or fashions in other academic disciplines and also in the general culture contributed at least as much to a willingness to engage in absurd risks and to provide and
accept
valuations of complex and inherently unfathomable securities.
If democratic political systems do not find ways to ease transitions, provide shock absorbers, and
accept
heterodox attitudes and values without condemnation, voters will push back.
It is not likely that someone will move from Spain to Swaziland, even for a dream job; but that person might
accept
a better position a few hundred miles away.
States could be involved and
accept
losses, but catastrophic risks would have to be shared among all eurozone members.
Likewise, if we define the fight against fire as a battlefield, we will build up our forces, search for more powerful technologies like air tankers, and
accept
firefighters’ deaths as inevitable.
Even if we
accept
the war metaphor, we are engaged less in set-piece conflicts than in an ecological insurgency that we cannot bomb or bulldoze into submission.
Today, the guerrillas are significantly weaker, allowing Santos’s government to offer a minimalist agreement that can satisfy both the Colombian establishment, which backs the process but without much conviction, and a fatigued and mercurial public that wants peace but remains unwilling to
accept
too many concessions to the FARC.
But the Shalit family is given the most credit: they left their home in a small village in Galilee to camp out for more than a year near the prime minister’s residence in Jerusalem, reminding the Israeli public of the victim’s suffering and pushing the government to
accept
Hamas’s conditions.
Unlike the first group, they would be ready to
accept
the release of one Palestinian prisoner – even if he were responsible for the most brutal terrorist attack – but not a thousand of them.
Previous experience suggests that most hold-to-maturity investors would
accept
a par bond, while most mark-to-market investors would
accept
a discount bond with a higher coupon (that is, a bond with a lower face value) – an alternative that could be offered (and has been in the past) to such investors.
One needn’t
accept
this Machiavellian view to recognize that trying to cut back on the use of fossil fuels in the absence of practical alternatives is a recipe for economic stagnation.
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