If the idea behind the recent unveiling of a set of perfect-vision drawings was to shift the debate to design -- and, in the process, get tacit acceptance of the type and amount of space to be built -- it hasn't worked.
The more laissez-faire approach -- a version of which Wu, Ginsberg and Wilson all favor -- requires the acceptance of some amount of risk and uncertainty.
And Israel is offering compensation for land seized, but Palestinians have turned down the offer on the ground it would amount to acceptance of the Israeli policy.
Second, it amounts to his acceptance of the inevitability of pluralism in matters of religion, and thus of religious toleration; this is in some tension with his encouragement elsewhere of cultural homogeneity as a propitious environment for the emergence of a general will.
Does he agree that what Cameron says amounts to a craven acceptance of the status quo?
The normalization of relations amounts to France's acceptance of the report's conclusions — and in the past few days the French press has been covering the substance of the report in uncharacteristic tones of admiration and respect.
The new administration will also be the beneficiary of Congress's recent history of complacency, which amounts to a tacit acceptance of the Bush administration's expansive views of executive authority.
And behind the corruption, he discovered, was a litany of unwritten rules amounting to a pervasive acceptance of the wrongdoing, even among those not on the take — a code of silence, called the blue wall, which was corroding morale.
The weakness in attempting to model alternative policy scenarios relates to the amount and quality of empiric data available and acceptance of the underlying assumptions.
This experiment did not permit distinction between differences due to acceptance of exogenous pollen, amount of exogenous pollen, or effects from emasculation.
