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Russia's leaders clearly recognize the country's true current condition, so they
accept
the need to concentrate on vital interests.
Once it became clear that some countries, particularly in Central Europe, were unwilling to
accept
EU-imposed quotas for resettlement, it was proposed that asylum-seekers be permitted to choose where they want to settle.
But adopting this principle would entail such huge payments from developed countries to developing countries, that, regrettably, the former are unlikely to
accept
it.
Still others
accept
that government could in principal do something useful, but believe that it normally does not, and that the risks outweigh the benefits.
In addition, Thaksin will have to do something about Myanmar if the international community is to
accept
his wider role.
Emmanuel Macron, the NovelPARIS – Emmanuel Macron’s victory in the French presidential election could be mistaken for the plot of a novel that no publisher would
accept.
If most investors
accept
this offer, the restructuring occurs successfully.
But this implies a key problem: Whereas a bankruptcy court can force holdout creditors to
accept
the exchange offer as long as a significant majority of creditors have already done so (a so-called “cram down”), the market-based approach allows some creditors to continue to hold out and sue to be paid in full.
Europeans do not
accept
the Bush administration’s strategic vision, and the US is unable to pursue that vision without European support.
In Algeria in 1991, it was civil-society activists who called for a military intervention against the Islamists; in Tunisia in 2011, all political actors seem to
accept
that the Islamists’ democratic credentials must be tested through elections, and that the outcome must be respected.
Getting such patients to
accept
being put into a control group where no acupuncture is applied is almost impossible.
The Times then quotes Russian political scientist Nikolai V. Petrov: “The next American president will face a new reality and will be forced to
accept
it.”
With limits on Germany’s willingness to
accept
a reduction in its competitiveness and repeated signals from the European Central Bank that monetary policy will remain highly accommodating, export-led growth seems to be the goal here, too.
For example, the veneration of Stalin, with whom Putin shares more than a few traits, has no doubt contributed to many Russians’ greater willingness to
accept
repression.
Last month, Nahles launched the debate within the SPD when, seemingly echoing right-wing rhetoric, she declared that Germany “cannot
accept
all.”
Even if we were to
accept
that real rates were genuinely very high in the mid-1980’s, then the logical conclusion would be that the stock and housing markets should have been even lower in the 1980’s, not that real prices should be very high in 2005.
The alternative is to
accept
the deterioration of the quality of public services, which would lead only to a loss of government legitimacy and, with it, a diminishing willingness to pay taxes.
Macron’s genius is that he does not
accept
the traditional dividing lines between left and right, and between EU integration and national sovereignty.
And his provocation highlights a sad reality that Europeans must
accept
and confront: Europe no longer interests America.
The inability of the official Dutch report to clearly
accept
responsibility for the failures of the Dutch Battalion underlines once more the bankruptcy of so many UN peacekeeping operations: they have no mandate to stop aggression forcibly, and they are supposed to be neutral.
This conception of deterrence failed in Lebanon in 2006, with Israel forced to
accept
a UN-sponsored cease-fire agreement, and it is no more likely to succeed in Gaza.
Little wonder, then that these countries
accept
the imperative of a dynamic, open, growth-oriented, and job-creating global environment.
Of course, some extreme philosophical individualists believe that appealing to a greater collective is pure humbug, concocted to get voters to
accept
voluntary servitude.
But without deciding this philosophical issue, we can ask: what feature of our "imagined communities" persuades people to
accept
that they are free under a democratic regime, even when their will is overridden on important issues?
The answer that we as individuals
accept
is that we are free because we rule ourselves in common, rather than being ruled by some agency that need not take account of us.
Such is the answer, valid or not, that people
accept
in democratic societies.
The crucial point is that regardless of who is right philosophically, it is only insofar as people
accept
some such appeal that the legitimacy principle underlying popular sovereignty can work to secure their consent.
For example, in one case, Germany – where surrogacy is illegal – refused to
accept
twin children of a German father born to an Indian surrogate, while India demurred at giving the father an exit visa so that he could remove the children.
Managements that are reluctant to
accept
the consequences of past mistakes could be penalized by depriving them of the Fed’s credit facilities.
One option would be to
accept
and live with a nuclear or near-nuclear Iran.
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