| It is hardly possible for me to accept that the term “loyalty” can applicably describe these actions, due to the divergent views. |
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| We now accept cell phones and laptop computers as commonplaces of everyday life. |
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| If the professor agrees to accept the student, the student applies for admission. |
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| We need to look at these proposed changes with a critical eye before we accept them. |
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| The committee reviewed the documents and thereupon decided to accept the proposal. |
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| We are willing to offer a small honorarium that we hope you will accept for judging the competition. |
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| He was so fond of drink, that he would shamelessly accept the contemptuous hospitality of hornyhanded workmen. |
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| Both sides agreed to accept a decision by an impartial arbitrator. |
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| She has shown an unaccountable reluctance to accept their offer. |
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| Almost by definition, a conversation requires both parties to accept each other's viewpoints to some extent. |
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| Christcentrism became the keyword. Spirit baptism, speaking in tongues, and faith healing became easier to understand, and accept. |
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| However, the Allies refused to accept this under prodding from Alexander, who feared that Napoleon might find an excuse to retake the throne. |
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| With the exception of scramjets, jet engines, deprived of their inlet systems can only accept air at around half the speed of sound. |
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| No person may accept significant public office without swearing an oath of allegiance to the Queen. |
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| Courts exercising inferior jurisdiction must accept the law declared by courts of superior jurisdiction. |
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| For example, merchants in England generally accept Scottish and Northern Irish bills, but some unfamiliar with them may reject them. |
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| He later published his view that these were marine raised beaches, but then had to accept that they were shorelines of a proglacial lake. |
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| Hawking was, however, fiercely independent and unwilling to accept help or make concessions for his disabilities. |
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| As he had pneumonia in 2013, he was advised not to have ice poured over him, but his children volunteered to accept the challenge on his behalf. |
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| However, Heaviside refused the offer, declining to accept any money unless the company were to give him full recognition. |
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| Some time later a large donation was made to establish a chapel and the College Council decided to accept it. |
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| In the Scottish Highlands too, the Gaels were generally slow to accept the Scottish Reformation. |
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| In addition, most colleges and universities only accept one year of ESL English. |
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| Then it is less costly for the seller to accept money in exchange, rather than what the buyer produces. |
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| The British Constitution, however, did not accept it and George IV later moved on. |
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| Those monks and clergy unable to accept the Whitby decision left Northumbria, some going to Ireland and others to Iona. |
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| Dharma, according to Van Buitenen, is that which all existing beings must accept and respect to sustain harmony and order in the world. |
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| As well as pantheism and duotheism, many Wiccans accept the concept of polytheism, thereby believing that there are many different deities. |
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| Wace says Arthur created the Round Table to prevent quarrels among his barons, none of whom would accept a lower place than the others. |
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| Teach had at some stage learnt of the offer of a royal pardon and probably confided in Bonnet his willingness to accept it. |
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| Modern historians do not accept this interpretation, while not exonerating Richard from responsibility for his own deposition. |
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| Her husband kept many mistresses, most notably Barbara Palmer, whom Catherine was forced to accept as one of her Ladies of the Bedchamber. |
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| The group continued to accept the concepts of history painting and mimesis, imitation of nature, as central to the purpose of art. |
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| Lady Capulet and Juliet's nurse try to persuade Juliet to accept Paris's courtship. |
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| He seeks to find a parsimonious basis for a moral beginning for society, a kind of natural law that everyone could accept. |
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| However, her daughter Lucy accepted Johnson from the start, and her other son, Joseph, later came to accept the marriage. |
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| While pleased to accept the invitation, the experience left him physically exhausted and he considered stopping the lectures early. |
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| But if the situation allows people to reason by themselves and decide to accept it or not, any argument or theology should not be blocked. |
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| Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established. |
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| Lang sees Handel as someone who could not accept class distinctions that required him to regard himself as a social inferior. |
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| Elgar visited America in that year to conduct his music and to accept a doctorate from Yale. |
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| She is not eager to accept the deal, but cannot turn down the opportunity to regain her piano. |
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| They also wished to be free to accept such engagements individually, absenting themselves from concerts if there were a clash of dates. |
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| While in Vienna, Fleischmann persuaded Monteux to accept the chief conductorship of the orchestra. |
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| Now, I am going to argue that the contrastivist should accept a further condition on the knowledge-relation, a further relativization. |
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| If we were to accept Amendment No. 144D, the effect of that would be to disapply the definition from properties that are not yet on the market. |
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| She voiced her regrets when he dropped dimes on goldfish and refused to accept the excuse that he was trying to set them free. |
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| Suppose we think that morality is a system of rules that is endorsable by all because each has good reason to accept those rules. |
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| It will be to your interest to accept my suggestions and fall in line with my plans. |
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| Clearly the governor is angling for an administration job, which he'll accept once he's finished gay marrying the entire state of California. |
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| Despite growing doubts, Columbus refused to accept that he had not reached the Indies. |
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| Others cannot accept that a suicide or an auto accident was not a hitjob by the Ku Klux Klan. |
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| Just like a bamboo is hollow-hearted, he ought to open his heart to accept whatsoever of help and not ever have conceit either bias. |
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| When it came time for me to be ordained a teacher in the Aaronic Priesthood, I told the bishop I would accept a home teaching assignment. |
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| They refused to accept the money that was dangled before their eyes. |
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| So, the dreamer is left to accept the dream because they lack the choice to judge it. |
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| If you accept these proposals, Conscript Fathers, say so at once and simply, in accordance with your convictions. |
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| The Assyrian Church of the East did not accept the third and following Ecumenical Councils, and are still separate today. |
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| His refusal to accept gifts from kings placed him outside the normal ties of kinship, fosterage and affinity. |
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| The people of York promise to accept her as their overlord, but she dies before this could come to fruition. |
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| Henry was forced to accept humiliating peace terms, including naming Richard his sole heir. |
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| John was also to accept Philip as his suzerain overlord and pay Philip 20,000 marks. |
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| Here Edward was forced to accept severe limitations to his financial and administrative freedom, in return for a grant of taxation. |
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| To accept the Treaty of Troyes would be a denial of the legitimacy of the Valois. |
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| They were, in fact, regarded as traitors, because the Pope had refused to accept Elizabeth as Queen of England. |
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| However, no child was born, and Mary was forced to accept that Elizabeth was her lawful successor. |
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| Elizabeth saw this as a Dutch ploy to force her to accept sovereignty over the Netherlands, which so far she had always declined. |
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| A small minority of critical scholars were slow to accept the latest translation. |
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| Montrose feared that Charles would accept a compromise, and so chose to invade mainland Scotland anyway. |
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| Ted and I have Javerts in our lives, those who will not accept the fact that God the Father has welcomed his prodigal son home. |
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| Voltaire, who had been imprisoned and maltreated by the French government, was eager to accept Frederick's invitation to live at his palace. |
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| First, the king did not accept the limitations on his powers, and mobilised support from foreign monarchs to reverse it. |
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| Inundated by too many of them, we tend to ignore them completely, to accept them blithely, to disbelieve them closemindedly, or simply to misinterpret their significance. |
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| Despite Stephenson's loss of some routes to competitors due to his caution, he was offered more work than he could cope with, and was unable to accept all that was offered. |
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| Most scholars now accept that Shakespeare wrote A Lover's Complaint. |
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| While James I had held the same opinions as his son with regard to royal prerogatives, he had enough charisma to persuade the Parliament to accept his policies. |
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| In November 1698 and in January 1700 Harley was approached by the ministry to accept office in the government, on the later occasion being offered the Secretaryship of State. |
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| At bottom, he does not accept any authority higher than himself. |
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| Throughout the century, audiences, influenced by the cinema, became less willing to accept actors distinctly older than the teenage characters they were playing. |
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| Exceed expectations. This sounds contradictory to the earlier advice not to accept extra or unnecessary tasks and not to gold plate requirements, but it is not. |
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| Olaf Tryggvason persuaded the rebels to accept him as their king, and Jarl Haakon was murdered by his own slave, while he was hiding from the rebels in a pig sty. |
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| In October a group of 30 bishops wrote a declaration saying they could not accept that law, and this protest fueled also civilian opposition against that law. |
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| Catherine refused to accept Henry as Supreme Head of the Church in England and considered herself the King's rightful wife and queen, attracting much popular sympathy. |
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| His admirers say that Napoleon wanted to stop now, but was forced to continue in order to gain greater security from the countries that refused to accept his conquests. |
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| By emphasising this theme even in the setting of the play, Shakespeare prepares the reader's mind to accept the fantastic reality of the fairy world and its happenings. |
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| Bede's extensive use of miracles can prove difficult for readers who consider him a more or less reliable historian, but do not accept the possibility of miracles. |
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| This Malcolm refused to accept, and returned immediately to Scotland. |
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| Wesley hesitated to accept Whitefield's call to copy this bold step. |
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| Often governments will accept changes in legislation in order to avoid both the time delay, and the negative publicity of being seen to clash with the Lords. |
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| When any project dominates your life for a sizeable length of time, let alone the best part of six years, you have to accept the agathokakological nature of the beast. |
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| Lactantius states that Galerius manipulated the weakened Diocletian into resigning, and forced him to accept Galerius' allies in the imperial succession. |
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| Historically, the Speaker, representing the House to the Monarch, potentially faced the Monarch's anger and therefore required some persuasion to accept the post. |
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| But Peter Petrovich did not accept this retort. On the contrary, he became all the more captious and irritable, as though he were just hitting his stride. |
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| When presented with the invitation, Epstein politely declined on the band members' behalf, as it had never been his policy to accept such official invitations. |
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| Specialist Fund Market Is the London Stock Exchange dedicated market, designed to accept more sophisticated fund vehicles, governance models and security. |
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| Doctoral applicants were previously required to have a master's degree, but many programs accept students immediately following undergraduate studies. |
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| This emotional distress eventually led him to question his theological upbringing, causing him to reject election and to accept universal salvation. |
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| The preamble to Magna Carta includes the names of the following 27 ecclesiastical and secular magnates who had counselled John to accept its terms. |
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| Louis came down firmly in favour of Henry, but the French arbitration failed to achieve peace as the rebellious barons refused to accept the verdict. |
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| Although he initially declined the honour, Harold Wilson, the incumbent prime minister, wrote to him, then invited him and Plowright to dinner, and persuaded him to accept. |
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| Until 1513, Henry continued the policy of his father, to allow Irish lords to rule in the king's name and accept steep divisions between the communities. |
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| When she was the only Tony Award nominee for the production, she declined the nomination saying that she could not accept because she felt the entire production was snubbed. |
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| Grindal's successor, Archbishop Whitgift, more reflected the Queen's determination to discipline those who were unprepared to accept her settlement. |
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| However, John Lane at The Bodley Head offered to accept it after keeping the submission for several months, provided that Christie change the ending. |
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| By the end of the day, Edith had agreed to accept Tolkien's proposal. |
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