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Its conclusions will be presented at September’s summit; if accepted, the Commission’s work could mark a turning point, transforming the way in which climate policy is perceived by the world’s economic policymakers.

In an era when economic growth was the top priority, the corruption that fueled it was tacitly accepted, and even blithely condoned.

The Chinese accepted the evidence, agreed that stealing industrial technology was different from other forms of espionage, and said that the Chinese government would not assist in such theft in the future.

I never accepted that reproach of the EU and its institutions, but I do see a new and dangerous deficit within the Union – a trust deficit, both among governments, and among the citizens of various member countries.

Lodging an application, even one without any chance of being accepted, is appealing, because until it is rejected, the applicant receives basic housing, social services (including health care), and pocket money in an amount that may well exceed wages in his or her home country.

But a corollary to this interest -- one widely accepted -- requires that Russia not provoke by its actions or inaction the creation of such a force.

Monetary authorities have only grudgingly accepted this.

When the first wave of Central European countries joined NATO in 1999, both the Russian Federation and Ukraine accepted their admission.

The most widely accepted view is that he suffers from a narcissistic personality disorder, which is far more serious than simply being a narcissist.

That argument was accepted, and the SGP was supposedly rendered more “intelligent” by, for example, permitting budget deficits to be adjusted for the economic cycle, adding medium-term objectives for expenditure, and introducing escape clauses.

But the new rules obviously require a strong institution to interpret them, and whose judgment is accepted by everybody.

Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser’s conservative government accepted his recommendation that whaling be stopped, and Australia soon became an anti-whaling nation.

For the first time, the 2030 Agenda provides a universally accepted measurement set so all countries can communicate within the same parameters.

Surprisingly, May’s compromises have all been accepted by nationalist hard-liners who previously threatened her leadership.

Once again, Palestinians accepted Obama’s formula, while Netanyahu publicly rejected it, leaving Palestinians with no other nonviolent alternative but to go to the UN to seek a state based on the 1967 borders.

For example, the Chinese government reiterated its core diplomatic principle of non-intervention in other countries’ affairs during the Libya crisis, yet China accepted the imposition of United Nations’ sanctions on Muammar Qaddafi’s government.

For starters, China’s new leadership has moved away from outsize fiscal and monetary stimulus and accepted an economic slowdown, betting on structural change, systemic reform, and sustainable longer-term growth.

Because of the financial crisis, many politicians have accepted the argument, in a virtual throwback to Adam Smith, that financial services are unproductive – even counterproductive – and need to be scaled back by governmental intervention.

Surprisingly the Clinton administration accepted that decision.

Precisely because gays seem so accepted, the arrests sent a disturbing message.

As I watched, a European next to me explained that such dancing is accepted, so long as the contact between the men is left undefined.

Under the Northern Corridor initiative, for example, each of our governments has accepted responsibility for shepherding key projects.

One conservative estimate – which has a reasonable chance of being accepted precisely because it is conservative – calls for $50 billion per year as of 2015, increasing to $100 billion by 2020 and beyond.

The right accepted its defeat, and the left has governed reasonably (maintaining the dollar as the national currency).

It would also avoid the need for dramatic increases in gasoline or carbon taxes, which are broadly accepted in Europe and Japan, but remain the kiss of death for American politicians.

Furthermore, Libya formally accepted responsibility for the bombing, agreeing to pay more than $2 billion to victims’ families, and to abandon its weapons of mass destruction program.

In the Doha trade negotiations, industrialized nations accepted the need to liberalize their agricultural markets by reducing subsidies to domestic producers and tariff barriers on agricultural imports.

Moreover, independence would not be accepted by the Serbian public, which has already watched in dismay as “Great Serbia” has been gradually whittled away, most recently with the secession of Montenegro.

But they ultimately accepted the market economy, and came to lean toward ideological moderation and to compete for votes in the political center.

As subjugating and ahistorical as those relationships were, much of the world accepted the binding of “Eastern Europe” to the Soviet Union as a logical state of affairs, one in keeping with the world order that emerged at the close of WWII.

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