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It accepted a truce, brokered by an Egyptian government fearful of Iran’s influence in neighboring Gaza, that not only gave Hamas political legitimacy and undermined the international community’s policy of not negotiating with this fundamentalist group, but that also allowed it to continue rearming.
So far, the United Kingdom has accepted only a relatively small number of refugees from the Middle East.
Lebanon, Jordan, and Turkey have already accepted much larger numbers of refugees, despite the serious strain this is putting on their economies and societies.
Of course, now that the renminbi has been accepted into the SDR basket, China must prove that it can manage dramatic currency depreciation effectively and continue to make progress toward internationalization.
If the rest accepted this bottom-up calculation, society would miss out on the 0.5% boost to annual growth that this radical innovation ultimately brought about.
The Catholic Church has long accepted that it is not obligatory for a doctor or a patient to continue all means of life support, irrespective of the patient’s condition or prognosis.
He even retracted his confession to the CCP’s anti-graft agency, blaming mental stress for his admission that he accepted bribes from a man he called “soulless” in court.
Eventually, even countries traditionally suspicious of “government by judges” – France being the classic case – accepted this model of constrained democracy.
Europe's new constitution will be accepted as a guarantee of freedom and lawful government only if it results from a broad public dialogue reflecting the common cultural and moral assumptions that bind Europeans together.
The OBR, reviewing its recent mistakes, accepted that “the average [fiscal] multiplier over the two years would have needed to be 1.3 – more than double our estimate – to fully explain the weak level of GDP in 2011-12.”
Similarly, after some theological debate, British Muslims have widely accepted that they owe unreserved loyalty to Britain.
In the name of the “global war on terror,” they have tolerated torture; accepted – and even endorsed – the illegal invasion of Iraq; and allowed innocent civilians to become collateral damage of mechanical drone strikes.
Obama’s endorsement of Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s claim that if Israel is recognized as a Jewish state and its security needs accepted, “I will surprise, and the sky is the limit,” has made the current process possible.
So, although based on interests, such a proposal will not be easily accepted.
But it is now widely accepted that the way in which the US negotiated its way into war was a mistake – one that has cost it enormous credibility as a negotiating partner.
Resolving disputes requires mutually accepted principles that guide how individuals and countries interact.
The shoot-out’s individual competition for heroism or misery is really alien to such a team game as football, but it is accepted as a necessary way to resolve the stalemate.
However reluctantly, Silvio Berlusconi accepted in the end that he had lost, if just by a whisker, as did Viktor Orban in Hungary.
During the 30 months he ruled his country, from mid-1998 to the start of 2001, Estrada accepted payoffs from gambling lords and orchestrated (with social security funds) sales of stocks, channeling much of the profits into his personal aliased account.
However, so long as second- and third-generation minority citizens are taught that the only acceptable cultural identity is French, but are not in fact accepted as French – indeed, are blocked from enjoying the full rights of French citizenship – the Republican model will fuel alienation rather than democratic integration.
Not too long ago, “conversion therapy” for gay or lesbian people – sometimes involving electro-shock procedures – was an accepted medical practice.
It is surprising how readily politicians of all parties – even strong ideological defenders of the unregulated market – accepted the idea that the state should bail out banks and insurance companies when they got into trouble.
Even in countries not at war, poisonous identity politics is becoming increasingly widespread and accepted.
Even when WTO decisions have had serious negative effects on a trading partner, they have generally been accepted.
The process is no longer perceived as a miracle, but accepted as a matter of course.
Common sense tells us that all NATO candidate countries cannot be accepted simultaneously: that would probably cause the Alliance’s collapse.
Since the end of the 1990s, Mexico has accepted the idea of subjecting its commitments in this area to international scrutiny.
It doesn’t help that the two countries share the longest disputed frontier in the world, since the LAC has never been formally delineated in a manner accepted by both sides.
However, there is no universally accepted interpretation of the precautionary principle.
Merkel, together with the European Commission and the European Central Bank, threatened to deprive Greeks of the use of their own currency, the euro, unless their government accepted punitive conditions.
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