The phrase "accept interview" is not correct in standard written English.
It can be used in contexts where someone is agreeing to participate in an interview, but it typically requires additional words for clarity.
Example: "I am happy to accept the interview invitation for the position."
Alternatives: "agree to the interview" or "consent to the interview."
Asked by E&E News whether the EPA had OK'd Pruitt's interview with a group that spent more than $115,000 lobbying last year, a spokesperson reportedly responded: "It's absurd that E&E thinks we need their permission on what media outlets we can accept interview requests from".
While I have often enjoyed appearing on NPR programs and have been treated fairly and objectively, I will no longer accept interview requests from NPR as long as they are going to practice a form of censorship, and since NPR is funded with public funds, it IS a form of censorship.
To the right of the screen will be a big green button that says "Yes, accept interview," and below it will be a blue button that says "Decline".
Then one of them said: "We are not allowed to accept interviews".
The Washington Examiner said last week that it, too, would not accept interviews granted under the condition of quote approval.
My situation is complicated... I cannot accept interviews". Since then, her communications have been apparently cut off.
He has set tomorrow as the last day the investigation will accept interviews and documentary evidence from players he has requested to meet with.
At our recent talks in Baghdad, the Iraqi side committed itself to encourage persons to accept interviews "in private," that is to say, alone with us.
Mr. Bao said by telephone late Friday that he had just been informed he could no longer accept interviews "starting right now".
"It's not convenient right now to accept interviews," his wife told the Associated Press, using one of my favorite Chinese expressions; inconvenience, in the very Chinese sense, can be invoked for everything from declining a dinner invitation to declining to risk arrest.
Arab-Americans are now worried about a draft version of "Patriot II", which, they say, would permit secret arrests, secret evidence in trials and other things that many of them once fled.As for Operation Liberty Shield, which is supervised by the new Homeland Security Department, some Arab-Americans seem to accept interviews with Iraqis as justifiable in a time of war.
