The phrase "acceptance of the position" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to someone agreeing to take a job or role within an organization.
Example: "We are pleased to announce the acceptance of the position by our new marketing director."
Alternatives: "agreement to the role" or "approval of the position".
This year's opening gala, a concert by the New York Philharmonic, was never in doubt, but dark clouds had gathered nevertheless, due to the dramatic departure of the board chair, Ronald O. Perelman, only a few months after his acceptance of the position — one of the most honored in American philanthropy.
Announcing his acceptance of the position, Prescott said: "My brief is to raise ambition on this crucial issue and I am proud to help the man I hope will be the next prime minister so that together we can help the next generation".
He announced his acceptance of the position of head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers while Bradley was campaigning in California in 1999, and he was a "regular draw on the Bradley money trail" during the campaign.
The following day, on Friday, January 2 , 1824 the Committee of Privileges and Elections delivered their opinion: White should vacate his senate seat upon his acceptance of the position of Hampshire County sheriff, and the sheriffs of the senate district's four counties were directed to hold a special election to "supply the vacancy occasioned".
Irony, after all, represents a form of detachment; like the knee-jerk acceptance of the positions of others, it's a defensive mode that enables one to avoid commitment and stand above the fray.
That ecological absurdity is implicit in the widespread, but deeply mistaken, acceptance of that position for the root.
Prof. Norman A. Graebner, a historian of American diplomacy at the University of Virginia, said, "The general attitude toward the acceptance of the Soviet position in the world and the fact that revolutionary pressures in the third world were genuine and that it was America's task to live with those realities was most pronounced during those first Carter years".
In another informal executive agreement, he traded Japan's acceptance of the American position in the Philippines for recognition by the United States of the Japanese conquest of Korea and expansionism in China.
But in his acceptance of the Oxford position Mr. Nunn was gracious, writing in a statement: "Having been invited to fulfill this role on two previous occasions, I am so pleased that this time the dates have worked out".
In addition to the 3.2 million shares, Paulson also owned restricted stock which represented an additional 494,054 shares of common stock, worth about $75 million back (based on Goldman Sachs' closing price of $152.50 on the day that Paulson's announced his acceptance of the Treasury position).
And the Department of Education's apparent acceptance of that position is another sign of its desperation to have someone take over these campuses before they fold -- regardless of the harms and dangerous precedents.
