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But it is wrong to believe that accepting cultural differences requires abandoning allegiance to truth.
President-elect Obama has shown pragmatism and realism, and seems to understand that accepting limitations is not weakness; refusal to acknowledge reality is.
Furthermore, such a system would be fairly easy to sell to destination-country voters, who tend to be more accepting of high-skilled immigration.
The crucial issue is the extent to which creditors will have to participate in rescue measures by accepting “haircuts” – that is, partial losses on their claims.
We proposed building a “continental partnership” involving deep economic integration based on a common regulatory framework, with the EU, the UK, and possibly others accepting the free movement of goods, services, and capital, but not of labor.
Egypt had to grant Israel only political recognition, but the Palestinians are being asked to recognize Israel’s moral legitimacy by accepting Jewish links to the Holy Land and hence admitting the Jews’ millenarian claim for a state in a land that the Palestinians believe is historically theirs.
The Washington Post has created a new team devoted specifically to covering conflicts of interest within the Trump administration and possible violations of the Emoluments Clause of the US Constitution, which prohibits anyone holding public office from accepting money or gifts from foreign officials.
Keeping the lights on means either accepting much higher prices or emulating what many European governments are beginning to do – namely, subsidize fossil-fuel plants.
However, the biggest obstacle to a ceasefire is the same one that presented itself during negotiations over Syria’s chemical weapons: any deal will require accepting Assad as a partner in the negotiations.
The military’s belief that Malay Muslims could be re-educated and re-socialized into accepting a Thai identity has proved untenable.
Remembering the impact of Willy Brandt’s Kniefall at the Jewish ghetto site in Warsaw in 1970, I will commemorate the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II by visiting Nanjing and accepting Japanese responsibility for the terrible massacre of 1937-1938.
Anti-corruption efforts – whether directed at political bosses, officials who turn a blind eye to customs violations, or local traffic cops accepting a few dollars for an infraction – should figure centrally in the region’s strategy for mitigating inequality.
With investment risks largely collectivized by the bailout measures instituted by the ECB and the eurozone’s member governments, investors are once again accepting low yields, and borrowers are seizing the new opportunities.
As for the public, the vast majority appears resigned to accepting whatever is arranged by the leadership.
From the moment he fired Flynn, Trump has behaved as if he fears that Flynn has incriminating information that he might be able to trade to avoid punishment for improperly accepting and failing to disclose payments from the governments of Russia and Turkey.
The Bush and Obama administrations both understood that wise policymaking in crisis circumstances requires selecting the least bad option, accepting the inevitable anger and criticism, and implementing the decision quickly.
Obviously, accepting the Maastricht Treaty, with its tough constraints on fiscal, monetary, and wage policies, is far more than an economic decision.
In this way, both the Israelis and the Palestinians share a secret fear – for some, a belief – that each has no intention of accepting the other’s right to a country of their own.
The majority though, in one way or another, had some contact with communism, through intellectual fascination, participation in state institutions, or the cold conviction that only by accepting the reality of life under communism could one do something useful for one’s country.
India agreed to begin talking again with its neighbor, accepting Pakistan’s argument that it, too, was a victim of terrorism.
European governments are only now reluctantly accepting the need to scale back their over-representation in multilateral bodies, recognizing that it undermines rather than enhances the EU’s overall influence by pushing other powers into separate arrangements.
In fact, many different dynamics co-exist and are still in flux; the EU still has the chance to shape the emerging post-Western world order, rather than accepting its parameters with passive resignation.
Credit card companies now routinely charge the firms accepting credit card payments US$0.25 plus between two and three percent of the amount transferred per payment.
Preventing Poland from accepting any refugees may have been good campaign posturing, but doing so in power would lead to the confrontation with the EU that he seeks to avoid.
Yet, to the Brexiteers’ apparent surprise, the EU could not and would not allow a country to enjoy the full benefits of membership without accepting the obligations that come with it.
May is now confronting Parliament with the choice of accepting her deal or crashing out of the EU.
But, instead of accepting China’s olive branch, Koizumi implemented a more nationalistic agenda, including annual visits to the Yasukuni Shine, which is regarded as a symbol of Japanese militarism by Japan’s neighbors.
That means accepting and dealing with globalization.
With everyone accepting sacrifices, it might have been possible to reach an accord on liberalizing closed professions and on comprehensive tax reform.
To be taken seriously, we have to put our money where our mouths are, by accepting international duties and responsibilities – like helping to stop atrocity crimes in faraway places – that are consistent with our claims to good international citizenship but serve no immediate traditional national security or economic interest.
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