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Another big question for Israel is whether it can
accept
the consequences if a two-state solution disappears completely from the agenda.
Of course, to put on the table a comprehensive settlement plan that addresses all of the final-status issues, with compromises that all sides could be persuaded and pressured to accept, would require statesmanship.
The West cannot
accept
the possibility that the Assad dictatorship, however brutal, may be the least bad option on offer.
But neither can we
accept
a situation in which vast resources are spent on national cohesion, while European cohesion lags so woefully behind.
On the other hand, Jeremy Corbyn, the party’s leader, can have no great appetite to
accept
the poisoned chalice that May would pass on to him.
Encouragingly, all sides appear to
accept
the results.
Kurds will
accept
the arrangement because they believe that the new constitution guarantees their right to control most of the oil wealth that lies beneath their territory, and because they don’t want the blame should Baghdad descend into chaos.
In 2015, I asserted that the developed world should be able to
accept
at least a million refugees annually; later I reduced that global figure to 500,000, of which I suggested Europe could take 300,000.
Member states should not be forced to
accept
refugees whom they don’t want, and refugees should not be forced to settle in countries where they are not wanted.
Member states that refuse to
accept
refugees can make an appropriate contribution in many other ways, but the refugee crisis is a European problem, so it needs a European solution, not 28 separate solutions.
I do not blame the Hungarian and Polish governments for refusing to
accept
refugees they do not want; but I do hold them largely responsible for impeding a European solution.
Because financial markets are prone to create asset bubbles, regulators must
accept
responsibility for preventing them from growing too big.
As for the depletion of Venice’s stores of gold, Fabbro offers an ingenious solution: a paper currency, the Venetian dollar (V$), which other countries could be compelled to accept, because Venice was the world’s top trading power.
Both candidates indicated that they did not favor military intervention to prevent the Syrian government from killing more of its citizens; but, neither was prepared to say when they would be prepared to
accept
the responsibility to protect citizens who come under attack from their own government, or from forces that their government is unwilling or unable to restrain.
We
accept
paying a high and inefficient cost for national defense against what are often unknown enemies.
In almost all previous final status negotiations, Israel has agreed to
accept
a certain number of refugees as part of its contribution to help close this historical file.
And others have been far too willing to
accept
at face value submissions from countries where the rule of law is routinely abused.
Dependent on gas, oil, and multinationals, the G-8 countries
accept
quite a lot of guff from their current chair, Vladimir Putin.
From a populist perspective, this makes perfect sense: Why should they
accept
checks on their power if they represent the authentic will of the people?
Populists can live with representative democracy; what they cannot
accept
is political pluralism and the notion of legitimate opposition.
Forgetting thus affords us a second chance, individually and as a society, to rise above our past mistakes and misdeeds, to
accept
that humans change over time.
One can understand why, living in a foreign country they may perceive as hostile, immigrants opt to close themselves off, and some host countries – France, for example –may be too hasty in demanding that immigrants
accept
new ways of life.
Those who used to say that they favored a debate on the issue now support legalization; those who opposed it now
accept
the need for debate; and those who continue to oppose legalization do so on moral, rather than rational, grounds.
Today the best hope of the Western powers for an end to the conflict lies in the man who started it all: Serbia’s President Milocevic who is being urged to increase the pressure in the Bosnian Serbs tp
accept
the Contract Group’s plan for Bosnia-Herzegovina.
It was, of course, a hypothetical case; no West European government at the time would have been willing to
accept
post-Tito Yugoslavia into the EU (or rather the EC as it was then called.)
Khamenei, concerned with repairing the damage caused by his acceptance of the fraudulent reelection in 2009 of former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, was willing to
accept
the victory in June of Rouhani, a conservative reformist whom he trusted.
Any future Palestinian state would have to assume a similar position, as Israel would never
accept
its accession to some hostile military alliance.
The creation of the welfare state in Western countries after World War II helped to create a safety net for people disadvantaged by economic change, thereby encouraging them to
accept
the return of international economic interdependence.
The world’s rising powers are likely to be increasingly disinclined to
accept
constraints that they see as American or European tutelage.
So women
accept
unhealthy jobs, long hours, or work-shifts that are hard to adjust to family needs, along with new forms of exploitation and sexual harassment Even when these and other practices are illegal, women do not protest, fearing for their jobs.
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