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The outcome of the meeting was clear: Europe, North America, and Australia would not
accept
significant numbers of these refugees.
So why is Europe proposing to
accept
a paltry 20,000-40,000 people annually for resettlement?
They cast any criticism of Saddam as a willingness to
accept
American aggression.
Too few governments or politicians ever
accept
this debt to honor.
This contrast can also point us to the ways Europe’s governments should amend their rules, encouraging entrepreneurs to develop cutting-edge business models at home rather than being forced to
accept
innovations only after they have become best practices abroad.
But the proposals ran into outright opposition from Joseph Stalin, who would
accept
no limit to the Soviet Union’s ability to develop its own nuclear weapons.
In view of Moscow’s insistence that it will never
accept
such a decision, this will not be easy.
One received a phone call informing him that a senior Muslim Brotherhood leader was coming to announce that the group was being blackmailed: either
accept
the constitutional addendum decreed by the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), which practically eviscerated the presidency, or the presidential election’s outcome would not be decided in the Brothers’ favor.
Others perceive calls for growth as a pretext to weaken employment protection or
accept
greater income inequality.
Borrowers have often been reluctant to
accept
its advice, which they perceive as driven more by theory and ideology than by evidence and practice.
An Epidemic of PoliticsAmericans, like citizens in countries throughout the world, have come to
accept
that politics plays an important role in the appointment of certain kinds of public officials.
When it comes to dogs or horses, however, few people could
accept
Descartes’ view, even in his own time.
Remarkable capacities are regularly claimed for plants, but so far none of the observations that would require us to
accept
that they have subjective experiences have been replicable in proper experimental conditions.
Conditionality has plainly failed to deliver the intended results, because, ultimately, its success depends on countries’ willingness to
accept
the European agenda.
For my part, I would not have chosen to
accept
a one in three – or even a one in six – chance of a disaster that would have killed hundreds of millions and shattered our cities, even if the alternative were a Soviet invasion of Western Europe.
Why should the Greek people (not to mention the Irish and the Portuguese)
accept
years of austerity and slow growth for the sake of propping up the French and German banking systems, unless they are given huge bribes to do so?
And I can admire his unyielding – and, yes, sometimes wily – commitment to reconciliation, which saved his country from the race war that those who refused to
accept
the end of white-minority rule saw as inevitable.
Cooperation with havens like Liechtenstein or Monaco should be ruled out unless they
accept
that within the common market all citizens must pay taxes where they live, according to the rules of that country.
The British wanted to win the war – but not so much that they were prepared to
accept
unlimited liability for debt incurred by the French and Russian governments.
One approach might be to ask citizens in all European countries whether they are prepared to
accept
some sort of fiscal compact involving a hard limit on debt.
China’s key role within the G-20, together with the relative if not absolute decline of the Western powers, seems to have reinforced the hard-liners in Beijing and the nationalism of a China that seems less ready than ever to
accept
any criticism of its human rights record.
While much remains uncertain, what is clear is that if the UK wants to retain access to the European single market, it will have to
accept
the EU’s four freedoms, including the free movement of workers.
Sometimes we dissidents were not invited, but received an apology, and sometimes we were invited, but did not
accept
the invitation so as not to complicate the lives of our courageous diplomat friends.
The deal between Greece and its creditors, for example, has been compared to the Treaty of Versailles, with the Greeks forced to
accept
ruinous terms of “surrender.”
QUESTION: Do you think Germany could ever
accept
the idea of debt mutualization by the ECB?
It is therefore in a position to insist that the European Council
accept
the candidate elected by the majority of MEPs.
It is time to
accept
the reality that, like the waves on the seas that many of the migrants traverse, the ebb and flow of human movement cannot be stopped.
But it is important that we
accept
the fact that efforts to block migration are bound to fail, with disastrous consequences for human lives – whether they are lost on sinking boats in the Mediterranean and the Andaman Sea or threatened by xenophobic violence in South Africa, India, or elsewhere.
Can the EU and its democratic member states
accept
that Polish MEPs chosen in a rigged election will take up their seats in the Union’s own parliament?
There must also be a strong political commitment to intervention, and an explicit willingness to
accept
the consequences for domestic monetary conditions, which may involve an inflation rate that is higher or lower than desired, perhaps for some time.
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