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If we accepted this reasoning, we would have to
accept
a Soviet researcher’s assertion in the late 1980’s that we must rely on the state to create jobs, because 90% of past jobs were created by the state.
The banks, it would be fair to say, do not wholly
accept
regulators’ arguments about that, but they have bitten their tongues and paid up.
But they refuse to
accept
that this was the root cause of the crisis.
That means supporting a greater global role for all powers that understand and
accept
real responsibility for maintaining global peace and security.
Events in Syria are forcing Turkish authorities to
accept
the harsh reality of the Assad regime’s resilience – and now its hostility towards Turkey.
Originally reluctant to
accept
a Europe with autonomous military capacity, the United Kingdom had learned from the intervention in Kosovo that the EU must be able to respond to crises rapidly and efficiently.
I am only a believer who cannot
accept
that our existence is the result of some freak cosmic accident.
Unless and until German workers
accept
the need for greater flexibility in the face of global competition, export profits will continue to be invested abroad, reducing overall production costs – and reinforcing the bazaar economy at home.
If we do not condone redistribution that violates widely shared moral codes at home, why should we
accept
it just because it involves transactions across political borders?
The Lebanese government has volunteered to
accept
refugee children into the country’s schools by introducing a second afternoon session and enlisting teachers and school directors to take on the extra workload.
The Yingluck government had refused to
accept
the Constitutional Court’s ruling against a bill to change the senate from a half-appointed to a fully elected chamber.
In order to create a peaceful, stable, and effective democratic system, electoral minorities must
accept
the ballot box as the arbiter of political legitimacy.
A truly bold policy agenda would require the new government to focus on specific priorities and
accept
that not everyone can get what they want.
In 2001, US officials threatened to use their influence to stop previously approved IDB funding unless Haiti’s majority political party submitted to political demands to
accept
a particular apportionment of seats in a Haitian electoral oversight body.
But of all the charges thrown at President Barack Obama by his domestic political opponents, the hardest for most outsiders to
accept
is that he is too emotionally disengaged: all brain cells and no red-blood cells.
Understandings are reached, only to be immediately broken, as with the North’s agreement in February, in return for US food aid, to
accept
International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors, suspend uranium enrichment, and halt missile and weapons tests.
If this requires more spartan operatic performances, at higher prices, I
accept
this as a cost of life in a free society.
But, this time, an awakened citizenry was not inclined to readily
accept
that political leadership could be passed on so easily from father to daughter, from wife to husband, from father to son.
What many commentators failed to notice, however, is that even if, contrary to all the evidence, we were to
accept
Pruitt’s statement that “we do not know” whether CO2 is the primary contributor to climate change, the Trump administration’s actions would still be reckless.
Poor countries do not and will not
accept
a system of climate control that condemns them to continued poverty.
Moreover, Brazil’s elites are less insulated and hostile to globalization than in the past, and they increasingly
accept
that protectionist postures are counterproductive.
This August on the 50th anniversary of Japan's defeat in WWII, hard-line Politburo member Liu Huaging invoked memories of "successive and fierce aggression by imperialist powers" to insinuate that certain antagonistic countries "will not
accept
a powerful and prosperous China."
As Americans debate their readiness to
accept
a woman such as Hillary Clinton as president, India has already done so, with the election of Pratibha Patil.
Both Lehman Brothers and Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) were able to increase their profits as long as the risk they were willing to
accept
did not materialize.
If the Left says welfare must be cut, the public is more likely to
accept
this than if the same stricture came from the Right.
Better for the West to
accept
equality now – and struggle to maintain it.
China’s primary political challenge in the near future will be to convince government officials to
accept
a growing entrepreneurial class richer than they are, while continuing to reform the economy and to foster the development of the private sector.
At this point, the government asked AIG’s derivative counterparties to take a voluntary “haircut” – that is,
accept
a discount on the amount owed to them.
The point is not that Berlin should humbly
accept
whatever Washington says.
The issue of how much of a double standard the EU's smaller countries are willing to
accept
has been brought to a head by President Chirac's blatant flaunting of the Stability Pact rules.
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