"accept" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Mr. Clinton's top lieutenants have signaled his willingness to accept censure, saying he would be open to a "serious and reasonable" compromise by way of punishment.
- In a passage in 'Culture,' Emerson demonstrates that censure can benefit the poet-and that refusal to accept censure can be looked at as anti-democratic:
- White House officials privately encouraged speculation that the President would accept censure or some other form of reprimand from Congress as preferable to a protracted impeachment inquiry, even if it eventually cleared him.
- Rather than reveal the pressing shortage of military manpower that had led to the decision to concede Roanoke, Benjamin accepted Congressional censure for the action without protest and resigned.
- He is investigated by an opposition Congress for defrauding the public and eventually accepts Congressional censure.
- I can accept censure if censure is just.
- If people had taken that up as an idea you could have had a resolution under which the President would have accepted censure and would have accepted a sizable fine not paid from defense funds.
- For the first time, he said publicly that he would accept a rebuke or censure, but there were no indications that his offer moved the Republican leaders off their determination to deny a vote on anything but impeachment in the full House.
- Will Bailey volunteers to be the fall guy and call for a large reduction in greenhouse-gas emissions, then accept censure for doing so, and the President is pleased.
- Mr. Clinton took no questions, and when a reporter twice shouted to him whether he would accept censure from Congress, Mr. Clinton ignored him.
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