The phrase "acceptance against" is not commonly used in written English and may be unclear without context.
It could potentially be used in legal or formal contexts where one party's acceptance is being measured against another's terms or conditions.
Example: "The acceptance against the proposed terms was unexpected and required further negotiation."
Alternatives: "acceptance of" or "agreement to".
At each stage of the journey of gay liberation, religious traditionalists and social conservatives have fought – against legalisation, against social acceptance, against equalising the age of consent, against civil partnerships.
The failure of the Great Bible to win popular acceptance against the obvious superiority of its Geneva rival and the objectionable partisan flavour of the latter's marginal annotations made a new revision a necessity.
We can learn a lot from him – even from the easy acceptance, against his own better angel of reason, of the commonplace belief in witches that sent two old women to hang by the neck until dead.
However, this analysis does not claim that confluence or conflicts of ethical notions and moral values alone explain the resistance or acceptance against collective vaccination programmes.
In his music and in his prose writing Cage presents the case for inclusion and acceptance, and against discrimination and judgment.
Nonlinear dynamic analyses were also performed to evaluate the dynamic response of the frame and to assess the acceptance criteria against progressive collapse according to current formalised procedures.
In a one period model the governor weights the utility gain from setting a higher acceptance rate against the increase in the probability of takeover29.
The HAES community is growing, as is our professional organization, the Association for Size Diversity and Health, and a civil rights organization, the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance, advocating against mindless fat bias.
The second stage was to set 'benchmark' acceptance limits against which the performance of subsequent assays was evaluated.
The evidence base on the burden of child and adolescent mental disorders in LAMIC is relatively small due to a number of factors: in particular, insufficient skilled human resources, low awareness and low priority, high service load, greater concern for child mortality than morbidity, and journal acceptance biases against LAMIC research.
Preliminary studies were conducted to characterise the error associated with each assay to set realistic acceptance criteria against which to judge the performance of subsequent assays, rather than imposing rigid guidelines in advance such as in bioanalytical method validation (Shah et al, 1991, 2000).
