The phrase "accept a ruling" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where someone agrees to or acknowledges a decision made by an authority, such as a court or governing body.
Example: "After much deliberation, the committee decided to accept a ruling on the matter and move forward with the proposed changes."
Alternatives: "acknowledge a decision" or "agree to a verdict."
"Poles will not accept a ruling like this".
Published caption: Courtroom spectators applauded after the trial judge refused to accept a ruling annulling the case.
It also says, however, that the groups would accept a ruling simply ordering the government to issue a license immediately.
To accept a ruling authority and to decide accordingly is not a surrender or abandonment of jurisdiction but is an exercise of it.
Then, he says, Ethiopia will go happily to court, present its claims, and accept the ruling.So, apparently, both sides would accept a ruling resulting from international arbitration.
"The court knows that Israelis who rely on Highway 443 would not easily accept a ruling that causes them such inconvenience".
Last month the two governments accepted a ruling from an independent commission on where the border ought to lie, but the rival armies remain dug in.
LONDON — Carlos Tévez has had his fine halved by Manchester City after the Premier League club reluctantly accepted a ruling by the players' union that the Argentine did not refuse to play in City's Champions League match against Bayern Munich last month.
In the late 1990s, in an effort to placate the international community, Libya turned over the alleged perpetrators of the bombing to international authorities and accepted a ruling by the international court in The Hague stating that the contested Aozou territory along the border with Chad belonged to that country and not to Libya.
But two weeks ago Ivory Coast accepted a ruling by the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, which favoured Ghana.
However, since the parties had accepted a ruling by the High Court that the Comptroller's letter did amount to a legal determination of the respondent's tax liability and the Comptroller had not questioned this aspect of the High Court's judgment, the Court of Appeal proceeded on the basis that the letter did contain a determination that was judicially reviewable.
