"The key to any relationship is defeat and acceptance," Ms. Simpson said from a corner banquette where she was stealing quality time with Mr. Newman and his bandmates Blaine Thurier, John Collins, Dan Bejar and Kathryn Calder.
"Aren't you?" Standing on a bed in a slip, arms akimbo, body swaying in unsteadiness and insinuating confidence, Ms. Colin summons an entire life of triumph, defeat and acceptance in those two simple sentences.
They were deemed so vital to the safety and security of the people that the absence from the constitution, adopted by the convention of 1787, of express guaranties of them, came very near defeating the acceptance of that instrument by the requisite number of states.
The IRA leadership had embraced defeat in its acceptance of the Good Friday agreement.
As a former executive director, he serves on the board of Redefy, a non-profit organization harnessing the power of journalism to defeat and promote acceptance.
Here's a lesson in the graceful acceptance of defeat.
Mr. Gore cast his acceptance of defeat as a patriotic duty.
Nationalism not only induces wars but, through the severity of its influence, makes compromise and acceptance of defeat more difficult.
LC: It's a ferocious activity, where you experience defeat and you experience acceptance and you experience exultation.
Yet despite Mr Obama's apparent acceptance of defeat, he is quietly talking to European governments about their plans to squeeze Israel harder.
There was no deal between Jammeh and Barrow exchanging the acceptance of defeat for a promise of immunity, Jallow-Tambajang said.
