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.