Word: acceptant
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...action.” I am sure that, despite their advertisements, many editors of Let’s Go do not actually want to attract research-writers by holding out the promise of “plucking” the virginity of young Dutch women. I can accept that the Maxim cartoonist might not believe that anorexia and sexual availability should be held up as models for the ideal Harvard president. And I imagine that the owners of Out of Town News and Nini’s Corner may not really think that rape and child molestation are acceptable forms...
MacInnis should be ashamed that he did not stick up for his fellow editors in the face of protest. Opinion pieces are frequently inflammatory, and a journalist should accept these risks without hoping to please everyone...
Though Gomes said he has spoken often to people who think the Christian community should accept homosexuals, he said he regrets not speaking to more people who think homosexuality and Christianity are not compatible...
...live without soft money if the hard-money limits were tripled, as Tennessee Senator Fred Thompson, a McCain ally, proposed. But some Democrats would never go that high. Dianne Feinstein of California had proposed $2,000, and Daschle had made it clear that was the absolute maximum he could accept...
...Accept that odd premise--Erdrich makes it seem marvelously plausible--and the novel's overarching theme becomes poignantly clear. From 1912 to 1996, Agnes, disguised as Damien and thus a sham as both man and priest, tries to bring Roman Catholicism to the Ojibwes of Little No Horse reservation on a lonely patch of North Dakota. These people have been deprived of their ancestral lands and hence the sustaining spirits of their culture; they are stalled between past and future. What help can a missionary from the conquering side bring them...