Word: accept
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Their task? First, to convince the Florida Supreme Court to formally accept their appeal. Then, to persuade the Justices that in ruling against Gore's contest of Florida's election results, Leon County Circuit Court Judge Sanders Sauls abused his judicial discretion and relied upon a flawed legal standard, misinterpreting Florida's election law, which, according to Gore lawyers, specifically allows recounts in very close elections. "If this state's contest provision is to have any meaning," the Gore brief states, "the meaning must be this: It is a mechanism for determining if state authorities certified the wrong candidate...
...Florida's Justices rule against Bush, his lawyers are very likely to file an emergency appeal to the United States Supreme Court, where the nine Justices might or might not accept the case. In the meantime, in the event of a Gore victory, there would likely be a mad rush of vote counting before the December 12 elector-selection deadline. A Gore loss here, however, could be the beginning of the end: The vice president has indicated he might not appeal if he loses in Florida's high court (though it's not clear if he means this case...
...question really is whether the Chilean military is prepared to accept democratic life, including due process of law against its own officers when they have violated the country's law or its constitution. And the emerging standoff in Santiago therefore presents the U.S. with an opportunity to reckon with a stain on its own history in Latin America, particularly in relation to Chile...
Nonetheless, members of the University community were surprised when Conant resigned on Jan. 12, 1953 to accept President-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower's offer to become the U.S. High Commissioner to Germany...
...ignore whether a candidate is anti-abortion. The legitimacy of an official student group that views African-Americans as inferior (or homosexual acts as immoral) might be hard for some to justify, but once the university decides to allow the group, it must be able to choose leaders who accept its articles of faith...