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Citing company policy, Wendy’s managers refused even to
accept
a letter from the protesters about signing on to the FFP and gave them the telephone number of Wendy’s corporate spokesperson.
Countries will have to agree to
accept
and facilitate the IMF’s direct engagement with their influential citizenry as long as it is carried out in good faith.
Companies are then willing to make the investments required to build new systems, and customers are able to
accept
the transition costs of adopting new behaviors.
But the questions on everyone's lips are whether the loser of the recount will
accept
the result, and whether Taiwan's young democracy can survive this tumult?
According to this view, Netanyahu's right-wing coalition might be persuaded to
accept
the continuation of the partial settlement freeze, but only if the Israeli public sees President Mahmoud Abbas and Netanyahu publicly engaged in negotiations.
Economic contraction, or even stagnation, is not a solution for the developed countries, either, for a similar reason: it would imply that we either
accept
existing inequalities or impose a regime aiming at an equal redistribution of resources.
So why doesn’t the public
accept
this need for flexibility, which, in the end, is what market-based economic liberalization is all about?
Top-down governance approaches have been useful, showing the willingness of some of the historical greenhouse-gas emitters to
accept
remedial responsibility.
But if we don’t have a strategy to accompany our targets, the world’s governments might not
accept
such targets in the first place, or might
accept
them cynically, without any intention of actually meeting them.
In other words, Suu Kyi will have to
accept
the same lesson the generals did: The best way to retain power is often to compromise.
By focusing on the narrower intention to refuse burdensome treatment, rather than the broader implications of the choice, the Roman Catholic Church is able to avoid the inhumane implication that patients must always
accept
life-prolonging treatment, no matter how painful or costly such treatment may be.
Ukraine’s private creditors must now do their part, recognize the country’s economic and political situation, and
accept
a haircut on their bonds.
But by the mid-1980's policymakers throughout the world were assenting to the following propositions:Central banks must make their commitments to long-run price stability credible;Central banks must
accept
that the average level of unemployment is determined not by cyclical factors, but by "structural" factors, which they have no business trying to address;Announcing and trying to maintain a money-supply growth target is an easy way for a central bank to communicate its principal intentions, gain credibility, and give outsiders a way to check whether sound policies are really being followed.
Of course, if all parts of a nation
accept
separation, creation of a new national state need not be resisted by the world community.
We had anticipated this moment and agreed in advance that, while we would never ask to meet with Karadzic and Mladic, if Milosevic offered such a meeting, we would
accept
– but only once, and only under strict guidelines that would require Milosevic to be responsible for their behavior.
The example of Poland and that of the other countries of Central Europe shows that the clear prospect of EU membership may be one of the engines of effective reforms and may significantly enhance the ability of local leaders to persuade their people to
accept
the need for reforms that are sometimes painful.
The political community of the 1950’s that France had persuaded its five European partners to
accept
was supposed to absorb both the European Coal and Steel Community and the EDC.
Restoring competitiveness in some member countries (Spain, Greece) would require others (Germany in the first instance) to
accept
deterioration in theirs.
It must
accept
that it is no longer the only global cyberpower, and that its own behavior must comply with globally accepted norms to which all must adhere.
Then, on election night, when the television networks projected Romney’s defeat in Ohio and therefore Barack Obama’s re-election, the Romney campaign, in a further denial of fact, refused to
accept
the result.
These refusals to
accept
matters of plain fact reflect a still wider pattern.
When universities
accept
only the well prepared, they are not just being lazy.
It may mean that after a decades-long economic miracle, people must
accept
a modest reduction in their standard of living.
That would mean 3,000 micro-states, each refusing to
accept
any sovereignty superior to its own.
Why should the taxpayer
accept
a loss when they are bailing out the private sector by providing new funding?
Of course, the IMF’s member states might be willing to
accept
some burden sharing if a sufficient buffer provided by the eurozone were eroded, but that cannot be taken for granted.
Europe’s choice is equally clear: to
accept
absolution for this past from the president of Iran, or to determine whether the standard of truth that he applies to history is the same as he applies to nuclear weapons.
The mutual struggle will therefore continue until there is strong enough external pressure to
accept
a peace agreement.
Israel will have to vacate a large number of Jewish settlements on Palestinian territory, and
accept
joint international administration or division of Jerusalem.
The Sunnis would probably
accept
the federalist provisions if they applied only to the Kurds.
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