Sentence examples for Accept in theory from inspiring English sources

Most governments accept, in theory at least, that the state should be a model employer.

That point is easy to accept in theory, but it provides little comfort when stocks are melting away before investors' eyes.

In Chan Hiang Leng Colin, the High Court appeared to accept in theory that every citizen prima facie has the right to apply for mandatory, prohibiting or quashing orders in order to prevent an abuse of power by a public authority, though the Court has discretion to refuse to grant them.

They get a lot of bogus collect calls and while the bondsman will in theory accept collect calls, you need to give them a reason.

Mr. Lee accepted in theory that Taiwan and China might loosely unite in the distant future -- after the mainland became a democracy.

THE UN Human Rights Council was voted into existence in 2006, in the hope that it would do a better job than its predecessor, the Commission on Human Rights, at promoting the basic freedoms which almost every country in the world has accepted, in theory.

Mr. Boehner has also accepted in theory that revenues from a tax overhaul could be used for deficit reduction, as long as the current tax rates do not rise.

Webster accepted that the system could in theory be abused, despite the checks.

The rest of the dismay has come from those who have managed to accept Brexit in theory but who are only now being confronted with the depressing reality of its consequences.

But as Riley Peterson, from Brooklyn, who spends two to three weeks a month working in Paris, put it: "Most places will accept Visa in theory; but in practice, if your French is bad or your magnetic strip is old, you're in for some trouble.

All accept it in theory, but endless excuses, disagreements and delays keep it from being put into practice.