The phrase "accept the contention" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when agreeing with or acknowledging a particular argument or assertion made by someone.
Example: "In the debate, I chose to accept the contention that climate change is primarily driven by human activity."
Alternatives: "acknowledge the argument" or "agree with the assertion."
The court also appeared to accept the contention that "prior authorization" requirements could help save money for Medicaid without harming beneficiaries.
In the light of all the available evidence it is impossible to accept the contention that the invasions of Denmark and Norway were defensive, and in the opinion of the Tribunal they were acts of aggressive war.
cannot accept the contention that, outside the context of taxpayers' suits, a litigant must demonstrate something more than injury in fact and a substantial likelihood that the judicial relief requested will prevent or redress the claimed injury.
Nor can we accept the contention that a special exemption could be read into the Act in order to permit states holding land granted for school purposes to charge more than the ceiling price set for timber.
Recent research shows a large majority of voters do not accept the contention from business and employer groups that there would be more jobs if penalty rates were lower.
Today, in Middlesex Superior Court, Judge Charles Hely agreed to reduce the amount but seemed to accept the contention of Lynn Rooney, an assistant district attorney, that Father Shanley remained a flight risk.
Moreover, the judgment accepted the contention that same-sex unions were not a fundamental issue of Anglican doctrine.
The utility has slowly accepted the contention of Ms. Ashihara's group by repeatedly increasing its estimate of the size of the fault.
If accepted, the contention that CERCLA creates state liability only to the Federal Government would render meaningless the § 101(20)(D) language making States liable "to the same extent..
Israel had claimed that the barrier, though just 32 inches high, was intended to provide additional security for Jewish settlers, but in February 2006 the High Court accepted the contention of the Association for Civil Rights in Israel that the wall violated the rights of Palestinian residents in 21 rural communities and prevented farmers from crossing the roads with their herds of livestock.
Ryder in particular, with his crude, encrusted surfaces, awkward figures and visionary eccentricity, appears out of step with his times, unless one accepts the contention that his art was, in the words of the catalog's author, Elizabeth Prelinger, a "spiritual corrective to the extravagant materialism of the Gilded Age".
