verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
accept a bid
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The auctioneer may refuse to accept any bid below a certain price.
accept a booking
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Bookings can only be accepted on receipt of a deposit.
accept a challenge (= try to deal with one )
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He was ready to accept new challenges.
accept a cheque (= take a cheque as a form of payment )
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We only accept cheques if you have a bank card.
accept a claim
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Many scientists were reluctant to accept his claims.
accept a compliment (= show that you are pleased to have been given a compliment )
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She accepted his compliment graciously.
accept a gift
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Sam accepted the gift on behalf of the school.
accept a nomination
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Lieberman accepted the nomination as the vice-presidential candidate.
accept a notion
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Probably 95% of scientists now accept the notion that human activity is causing climate change.
accept a recommendation
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The President accepted the report’s recommendations.
accept an application
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The college refused to accept my application.
accept an explanation (= believe that it is true or correct )
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The court accepted her explanation.
accept an invitation
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She accepted his invitation to dinner.
accept an offer (= say yes to it )
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Are you going to accept their offer?
accept defeat
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It can be very hard to accept defeat.
accept failure
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Being able to accept failure is part of life.
accept sb's resignation
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The Prime Minister reluctantly accepted his resignation.
accept sb’s apology
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Please accept my apologies for having to cancel our meeting.
accept sb’s logic (= agree that a reason is correct )
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The government should accept this logic and exempt all students from paying the tax.
accept the limitations of sth
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Take pride in your achievements, but accept your limitations.
accept/admit liability
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The company accepts no liability for any loss, inconvenience, or delay caused by a cancellation of train services.
accept/admit the truth
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Our pride kept us from admitting the truth.
accept/adopt a suggestion (= do what is suggested )
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The issue was finally settled when Amelia’s suggestion was adopted.
accept/agree on a compromise
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It would be advantageous for both countries to accept a compromise.
accept/agree to conditions
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He refused to accept the conditions set by the rebel leader.
accept/receive a delivery
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Someone must be at home to accept the delivery.
accept/take a bribe
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Any officials who accept bribes will face criminal charges.
accept/take a card (= allow you to pay by card )
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Big hotels will accept most cards.
accept/take criticism (= allow it and learn from it )
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Very few people know how to accept criticism.
accept/take responsibility for sth
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To his credit, he took responsibility for his actions.
accept/take the consequences (= understand and deal with them )
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I’m prepared to accept the consequences of my decision.
acknowledge/recognize/accept the existence of sth (= agree that something exists )
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They organization finally acknowledged the existence of a problem.
an accepted convention
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Saying 'thank you' and 'please' is an accepted convention.
an accepted/received notion (= an idea that most people believe )
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These women challenged accepted notions of female roles in society.
approve/accept a proposal
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The proposal was approved by the committee.
believe/accept an excuse
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She didn’t believe his excuse for one minute.
fully accept
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I fully accept that what he says is true.
generally regarded/accepted/known etc
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The plants are generally regarded as weeds.
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a generally accepted view
resign yourself to/accept your fate
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I had no choice but to resign myself to my fate.
take/accept cuts (= agree to have something reduced )
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Some employees were forced to take pay cuts.
take/accept redundancy
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Twenty staff members took voluntary redundancy.
take/accept/shoulder the blame (= say that something is your fault )
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No one was prepared to take the blame for the disaster.
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Parents must shoulder the blame if their kids behave badly.
treated/recognized/accepted etc as such
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Birth is a natural process, and should be treated as such.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
fully
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Unless parents fully accept the child, the burden of pain and failure will be passed on.
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Yet he could not fully accept it.
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A lesson had been learned, but not fully accepted im-mediately, and it was enormously frustrating.
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Resolving this conflict was critical in fully accepting the responsibility in being a manager and developing credibility.
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Nowadays we fully accept short sight.
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But that big, awful secret from her past prevents Lisa from fully accepting his love.
generally
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It was coming to be generally accepted by 1880 that the state was the proper political expression of the nation.
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You might be surprised how difficult it is to develop a generally accepted definition of this most widely used political concept.
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That is to say, your study will provide you with the knowledge that is generally accepted as making up the subject.
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Not that there was a generally accepted view of how, they might be different.
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That period over, there is a stage of continued high growth when the dominance of the new technology is generally accepted .
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The media continue to publish favorable reports on prediction claims that are not generally accepted by the scientific community.
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Well-known rule here, and generally accepted .
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Under generally accepted accounting principles, companies may use straight-line or one of the accelerated methods of depreciation for financial accounting purposes.
never
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They would never accept him back.
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He did it on philosophical grounds, and never accepted the medal or the money.
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Never accept ActiveX controls unless you're absolutely positive they're from a reputable firm.
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Never accept a lift from some one you've just met!
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Profit for financial investors was allowed to encourage their investment; but it was never accepted as the purpose of the corporation.
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Nomatterhow strong the historical evidence for the resurrection, we shall never accept it.
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When he died I was so sad, not just because he died but because he never accepted the Lord.
readily
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Consistently, the results indicate that this mixture is readily accepted by the plant.
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Yet they readily accepted Joseph Alsop when he arrived in 1902.
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One readily accepts this interpretative excellent, but what is the cost?
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In accepting both what I like and don't like in her, I can more readily accept both aspects in myself.
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Those who have differing political philosophies may readily accept and utilise a concept of proportionality.
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What is more, painful remedies have been most readily accepted from those governments unburdened by past mistakes and old dogmas.
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Now, I was more readily accepted by my black friends than my white friends.
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This document won praise from the liberal majority at the Council, and was readily accepted , subject to a few amendments.
widely
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That is widely accepted by all those involved in health and safety both in Britain and throughout the world.
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Yet the reaction to date does not suggest that this idea has been widely accepted .
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The importance of incremental learning in some aspects of the curriculum is now widely accepted .
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I had memorized those few facts widely accepted by Princeton undergraduates to be part of an investment banking interview survival kit.
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The retirement impact hypothesis appeared to spread quickly and to be widely accepted , particularly in governmental and other widely disseminated documents.
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It soon became widely accepted that Mercury, like the Moon facing Earth, always kept the same side facing the Sun.
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However, through the 1950s and early 1960s it became widely accepted by biologists.
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It is still widely accepted today.
■ NOUN
apology
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And the woman, believed to be a pretty mum in her twenties, has accepted his apology .
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I want to say I do accept his apology .
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And I've accepted your apology .
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Again, please accept our apologies .
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Please accept our apologies if any event or occasion was overlooked.
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Please accept our apologies for taking so long to send the materials that you requested.
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Of course we accept his apologies with every grace.
challenge
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Somehow they must find the courage to accept the challenge .
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So he has accepted their challenge to run a marathon in 2 hours, 10 minutes, 45 seconds to qualify.
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Oh yes, just like him, we're going out there to win, to accept the challenge with a will.
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Mayor Willie Brown, rather than accepting the challenge , shifted the onus back on recalcitrant neighbors.
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In an attempt to copy her sister Sarah's exploits she accepted a challenge which nearly got her expelled.
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It required a trader to accept all challenges .
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This puts theology in a much stronger position to accept the challenge posed by historians and philosophers.
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The Marquis does not wish to accept the challenge from an old man but Juan insists.
fact
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I've learned to accept the fact of being a rock star and how big the band's become.
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At some point Rudi seemed to have accepted the fact that he would never satisfy his intellectual ambitions.
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Arthur soon accepted the fact that he would have to settle for second best.
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Refuse to accept the fact that the gambolling lamb in the field is their future Sunday lunch.
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Today, very late, we are coming to accept the fact that the harvest of renewable resources must be controlled.
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Sadly, she accepted the fact that there was now little chance of a tête-à-tête.
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Any city manager accepts the fact that he or she is at the mercy of the council majority, he said.
idea
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The child increasingly is capable of evaluating arguments rather than simply accepting preformed unilateral ideas .
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The decline of infant mortality makes it easier to accept the idea of smaller family size.
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When you accept new ideas in the course of a compromise, you benefit. 3.
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My father would not accept the idea .
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Not everyone accepts the idea of the Neolithic period as woman-centered.
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Are the group members flexible enough to accept ideas and opinions different from their own?
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But if the people who accepted the idea of wartime service for their sons expected honor or understanding, they were mistaken.
invitation
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Two hundred of them accepted the invitation , ending their visit with tea and scones in the school hall.
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She had accepted the invitation as a walk on the very wild side.
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We have asked you here and you have accepted our invitation .
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Alvin accepted the invitation and planned for the tour with all his usual energy and sense of organization.
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Perhaps she had already compromised herself beyond recall by accepting the invitation .
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We decided on the way home that we would accept no more such invitations .
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So far, there has not been a great rush to accept the president's invitation , now several years old.
offer
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You do not have to accept this offer , but it makes sense to do so.
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He retired from the Navy in 1979 to accept an offer to be president of the Citadel military college in South Carolina.
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However, Richard Baxter was hesitant to accept this offer for other reasons also.
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They're selling off their shares for cash rather than accepting Wanadoo's offer of 0.225 shares for every Freeserve share.
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In his Charlton days, Lawrence was forced to accept any reasonable offer to ease the club's financial crisis.
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It was not until two years later, however, that Clark accepted Chapman's offer to join the team.
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They might therefore be fearful of losing out if they accept a tender offer prematurely.
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Your Directors certainly have no intention of accepting the offer in respect of their own shareholdings.
principle
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That episcopal ordination made one a member of the episcopal college was accepted in principle by the second session.
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Under generally accepted accounting principles , companies may use straight-line or one of the accelerated methods of depreciation for financial accounting purposes.
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I think Mr. Lloyd accepted , in principle , that that would be so.
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The term generally accepted accounting principles is somewhat debatable in the field of financial accounting.
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It is accepted that the Rechsstaat principle is implied by Article 20.
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Once Asquith had accepted the principle of state-financed pensions he had to decide to whom they should be paid.
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He has accepted it in principle , which does him great credit.
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Councillors yesterday accepted the idea in principle after a presentation by Homesmith.
proposal
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Under this threat, Churchill sent a long reply on 28 November, explaining why Britain could not accept Berle's proposals .
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How could she accept the proposal of a man she had known for only a few weeks.
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As we have seen, there are good reasons for accepting this proposal .
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They are demanding that Clinton accept much of their proposal before they will increase the debt ceiling limit.
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Campaigners now hope parish councillors will abandon their scheme for 30 new lights and accept alternative proposals instead.
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Then his girlfriend decides to accept the marriage proposal of an-other man.
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There has never been any reason why the United States should accept this type of proposal .
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The Shah seemed to Sullivan to accept the proposal .
resignation
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But the council, the majority of which backs Byrd, never accepted the resignation , an apparent violation of state law.
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How different things are now than in 1992, when President Bush refused to accept the resignation of Adm.
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Finally, on June 29, Pérez accepted the resignations of six Cabinet ministers and five more junior government members.
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I must beg therefore to give up the appointment and request you to accept my Resignation .
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President Yeltsin overruled their objections on his return from holiday, and refused to accept Saburov's resignation in protest.
responsibility
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We too need to accept the responsibility to act peacefully and protest constructively.
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We are either to have an Army of soldiers or he will not accept the responsibility for the Army.
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But the Government had to face the realities and accept responsibilities , he said.
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Anyway, I accepted responsibility and apologized and expressed deep remorse.
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The Independent Labour Party was thus forced to accept full responsibility for continuing the dispute.
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The parents accepted their responsibility for helping Mark, but in spite of their efforts, the problem worsened.
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The average human being learns, under proper conditions, not only to accept but to seek responsibility .
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And Mayleas has accepted the responsibility of finding the money.
view
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It is difficult in this case not to accept the view of the.
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Not that there was a generally accepted view of how, they might be different.
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Mr. Dunn Does my hon. Friend accept my view that the Labour party would really like tied workers living in tied cottages?
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This used to be a widely accepted view .
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Labour and the Liberal Democrats appear to accept without question the view that our constitution is absurdly out of date.
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The Catholic sector is unable to accept such a view .
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The Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution and government ministers accept this view .
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Obviously Mr Lamont accepts this view and the overall balance he has struck would seem to be right.
■ VERB
agree
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One analysis is that a party to the Protocol has agreed to accept some treaty obligations.
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The senators started at one hundred thousand, but agreed to accept seventy-five thousand.
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The covenantee can not have both the promised performance and some other performance which he agrees to accept .
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Candidates can get around the cap if they agree to accept individual contributions of no more than $ 150&038;.
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Semen infected with hepatitis or syphilis can be donated, but only if a woman agrees to accept it.
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Lucille got to talking with the defendant, Freddy Mack, and agreed to accept a ride home.
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She identified the most likely candidate as Leach, who, she said, had agreed to accept her nomination.
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President Reagan agreed to accept tax increases immediately in exchange for spending cuts to be named later.
force
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Families who are desperate for housing are forced to accept bad housing offers simply because they have no other choice.
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The mediator merely functions as a facilitator and has no legal power to force the parties to accept these suggestions.
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In his Charlton days, Lawrence was forced to accept any reasonable offer to ease the club's financial crisis.
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Now that she was forced to accept that she hadn't, Celia began to panic.
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They forced her not to accept the house.
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Paling forces the reader to accept that resolution is not always possible.
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My father threatened to punish them, so they were forced to accept my company.
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This true type, having found her man, was forced to accept that biology was indeed destiny.
prepare
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Officials are preparing new figures after accepting that estimates by their own consultants, Touche Ross, are inaccurate.
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But Edwards, who was prepared to accept £10 million from Knighton, is believed to want nearer £30 million now.
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The Treasury was prepared to accept this provided there was no commitment to immediate action.
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The regents were not prepared to accept such returns.
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Locke was evidently not prepared to accept this.
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People who six months ago might have been on £25,000 a year are now prepared to accept considerably less.
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If they are not prepared to accept them jointly, they should not have children at all.
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There are opportunities here for solicitors who are prepared to accept that the conveyancing service can be better delivered.
refuse
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So deeply ingrained is our instinct to search for a pattern that we refuse to accept any input as genuinely random.
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Tenants who refuse to accept leases are given notice to quit and find themselves on the streets after years of loyal service.
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But he refused to accept such a fate.
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They refused to accept Morgan's assertion that the gens and group marriage were characteristic of the earlier human societies.
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Herbert 92X refused to accept a plea bargain, since he regarded what had happened as an accident.
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Because of its sometimes precarious economic position, no rank would refuse to accept the king's wage.
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A civilization generally refuses to accept a cultural innovation that calls in question one of its own structural elements.
seem
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It seems to be accepted that peers are not expected to contact the Lord Chancellor's department before they speak extrajudicially in public.
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At some point Rudi seemed to have accepted the fact that he would never satisfy his intellectual ambitions.
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Now that we were adults, she seemed to accept me as a friend.
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But Chiron did do this and Zeus seems to have accepted him as a substitute.
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We seem unable to accept the world as it is.
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But the Bruins seemed to accept their plight, rather than challenge it, and that may have most distressed Harrick.
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Mr Howie does not, but seems to have accepted that the criticism has ruined his board's plans.
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They seem to accept his new role, primarily as a power forward, and marveled at his increased bulk.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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After a three week strike, the company has finally accepted the workers' pay demands.
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Alice accepted the job of sales manager.
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Divorce is hard on children, but they have to accept it.
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Do you accept travelers' checks here?
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Going to a new school is hard, but you have to try and accept it.
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I decided to accept the job.
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I finally accepted the fact that I would die if I didn't stop smoking.
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If they offered you a place on the course, would you accept it?
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In the US, people have come to accept that they will probably have several different jobs over the course of their career.
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It was difficult for Paul to accept the fact that he was going bald.
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My parents have always accepted me just as I am.
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Norton is in prison for accepting bribes.
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Owens refused to accept Bisonga's explanation.
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People are beginning to accept the idea that higher taxes may be necessary.
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She'll never accept that her husband has been unfaithful.
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She succeeded in persuading the jury to accept her version of the events.
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Steptoe finally accepted that his son didn't want to continue working in the family business.
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The idea of a common defence force has been accepted by some EU governments.
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The judge accepted that Carter did not mean to harm anyone.
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The office does not accept applications from non-residents.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But wordings which did not take the shape of a request also soon came to be accepted.
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One day, not long before he died, he accepted it.
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The child's solicitor must serve and accept service of documents on the child's behalf where there is no guardian.
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The end user must have an Internet browser capable of accepting and playing the applet.
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With subtle flattery she had gradually been accepted by the housekeeper.
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Yet they have helped persuade a suspicious population to accept Mr Salinas's much-needed reforms.