Word: acceptant
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...been a permanent Israeli presence in those territories. The deal offered by Barak at Camp David last year would have ultimately involved Israel abandoning a significant number of settlements, and despite the fact that Sharon is a longtime champion of the settlement movement, even he has been forced to accept the principle of some form of settlement freeze as part of the current cease-fire formula...
...accept this imbecility---passively, without complaint. Or have trained ourselves to tune...
...like missile defense, where the President was asking the Europeans to sign onto a very vague concept - the U.S. is saying there is a threat out there; it wants to spend all this money developing a system to counter that threat, and it simply wants the Europeans to accept this. But Kyoto is different: The details are already there, and we know exactly what would be expected from the Americans, and it would cost America a considerable chunk of money to comply. So Bush's position remains no Kyoto, and the Europeans insist on going ahead...
...brokered the beginnings of an Israeli-Palestinian cease-fire, but only because both sides reluctantly embraced it as a diplomatic necessity. Realizing that he'd made a colossal PR blunder earlier in the day by nixing Tenet's proposals, Yasser Arafat announced late Tuesday that, like Israel, he would accept the deal - but with plenty of reservations and outright rejection of some clauses. And that was quick thinking by the Palestinian leader, after his earlier rejection had prompted Tenet to blame Arafat for the failure of his peace mission, and plan his departure...
...rate coffee and spend hours listening to stories of despair and hope, supporting each other as they try to exist in a city with a bar on every block. At the end of the meeting, gather in a circle, grasp hands and recite: "God grant us the serenity to accept the things we cannot change, the courage to change the things we can, and the wisdom to know the difference...