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Innovation can't happen without accepting the risk that it might fail.
Nor does it mean accepting the fact that monetary policy matters.
Bliss cautions about accepting such stories on blind faith.
People who move into the country should be made to be accepting of the fact they may see and smell cows.
Accepting that role is difficult, because it means accepting mortality-not only the patient's but one's own.
The last time many people heard about you, it seemed as if you were on tape, accepting cash for access to your husband.
Now it is the recipients who are vacillating about accepting it.
Accepting them for who they are will make them stronger and prepare them for potential harsher reactions.
Another judge was convicted of accepting money to refer clients to a particular lawyer.
Meanwhile, researchers are slowly accepting that many animals do in fact think and feel.
It simply means not accepting their hostility to critical scrutiny.
But everyone knows what happens to dads who are too real and accepting.
After accepting, applicants are expected to withdraw themselves from consideration for other positions.
In the meantime, he is not shy about accepting money from the dairy industry.
Much of the advice has to do with accepting the incorrect premises of the vaccine skeptics, and humoring them.
There were few if any criteria for accepting or rejecting volunteers.
Yet minimalists also fretted about accepting too much.
For instance, he writes that simply accepting that bad things will happen and facing problems head-on can alleviate anxiety.
Federal laws make it illegal to ship out a patient without an accepting physician and a guaranteed bed on the other end.
The court observes in a footnote that it is accepting the legislative resolution of a disputed empirical question.
At first the dog seemed frightened of the city's noise, and he thought he'd made a mistake in accepting her.
We are now only accepting applications via the online application.
Only starting from here, developing countries can start accepting anything else.
Apparently there was an internal debate on the elk foundation board about accepting the conveyance.
Education should not be accepting on faith, memorizing, and repeating back whatever one is told.
Patients need to take some responsibility to do a little research before accepting this type of treatment plan.
If you are incapable of accepting other people's views or ways of thinking, you should maybe not run a blog open to the public.
Keep up the action, and consider accepting new responsibilities.
Children have trouble accepting the need for trade-offs among competing goods.
Our diplomacy should be direct and frank, neither seeking to obtain more nor accepting less than is our due.
Humans typically have difficulty accepting that things change.
They glibly ignore evidence which does not fit the formulation while readily accepting anecdotal clinical evidence that does.
They are better at controlling their emotions, better at accepting misfortune and less prone to anger.
The groom is taking her away from her parents, and accepting her to be a new member of his family.
They have resisted increasing prices here, accepting lower profit margins in order to maintain their market share.
It's not up now, but we're accepting registration and it will be up in a few weeks.
And poor countries have to find some way of accepting cuts in their emissions.
Before accepting the chocolate, however, they were obliged to complete a brief questionnaire.
He didn't feel right accepting the money, he explained, since he was not a believer.
The public went along, accepting the excuse that a little tyranny was necessary to protect the population.
For those in a beneficent mood, the centre is also accepting donations.
Keeping an open mind does not mean accepting as truth the ravings of a lunatic.
What she didn't say was that she hadn't always been so accepting, although four others in her family have the same disorder.
Peace means first and foremost accepting the other as a partner rather than as a nuisance.
The ants are duped by chemicals into accepting, nurturing, and protecting the butterfly caterpillar as one of their own.
Items could be paid for by walking past a reader and accepting the charges.
The market was finally accepting the diagnosis of its own disorder.
In response to the copper coin's declining value, some stores have stopped accepting it as a form of payment.
Hypothetically, you should have thought about these things before accepting.
Today many people think truth can be found by accepting contradictions as part of the truth.
But that drawback is worth accepting, because this backward step opens an amazing vista of progress.
For example, a growing number of people are choosing their own spouses, rather than accepting their parents' choice.
Be that as it may, many aspects of modern science could not work without accepting evolution.
In the case of a resignation, the chair may at once state the question on accepting it, or a motion to that effect may be made.
Some are suspected of accepting drug money, but it's difficult to determine because the killings are barely investigated.
They propose what they think is a wise and accepting superficiality.
We are no longer comfortable accepting how agribusiness keeps animals who are raised for food hidden from us.
Still, he had never been traded himself, and he was having some trouble accepting it.
Starting slowly, it broadened the diversity of its student body, accepting more people of color and more scholarship students.
The world has enough threatening crises to confront without accepting yet another.
Apart from our waking visions, our internal perceptions can trap us into not accepting reality.
Creationism is not: it's the process of accepting the lack of answers.
Accepting the evolutionary account does not necessarily discredit the moral response that it explains.
He bombed a specific military target, accepting that there would be collateral damage.

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