Sentence examples for acceptance an from inspiring English sources

We get some surprisingly mushy therapized psychobabble: Limbaugh blames his drug addiction (which, as Chafets does not note, involved violations of the law) on "my childhood desire for acceptance," an excuse he'd be unlikely to accept from, say, Kitty Dukakis.

The few names being proposed have not found wide acceptance, an indication of how raw feelings are after the divisive debate over Mr. Grasso's pay package.

That idea, well entrenched now, was a long time coming, and it came because of Alice Stewart, an English doctor and (before the term gained wide acceptance) an epidemiologist.

"The stigma is so heavy a burden that it took our community 40 years before it could go to Capitol Hill and lobby for ourselves," said Ms. Wann, a member of the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance, an advocacy group that organized a lobbying trip to Washington for its members this spring.

For most of his career, the Brockton, Massachusetts, fighter had struggled for acceptance, an unfashionable southpaw whose angular, stiff-backed style appealed neither to TV executives or any of the losing opponents in his 59 wins on the way to a date with Hearns.

Despite high acceptance, an additional benefit of Association Splitting beyond standard inpatient treatment was not found.

So I opened the letters -- a rejection, an acceptance, a rejection, a rejection.

There was an acceptance, a willingness to make the best of things.

Then Harvard rescinded her college acceptance, a lawyer for the family confirmed.

They begin to crave acceptance, a place at the broader cultural table.

And from quiet acceptance, a few people have gone to forceful action.