Sentence examples for accepted a present from inspiring English sources
Later, the Dalai Lama accepted a present from an eight-year-old Indian girl who is regarded as a prophet.
The strangest thing she had ever received was a pair of pink knickers, she said, giggling.According to the China Daily, Mr Xi himself accepted a present from a student on the eve of Teachers' Day, when he visited Beijing Normal University: a flat Uighur hat.
Such a sweetheart deal would certainly look as though the president had accepted a "present" from a foreign state.
Until last week, both Mrs Deviers-Joncour and Mr Dumas denied that he received a centime from Elf. Mr Dumas continues to do so; but now she claims that he did accept a "present" of six ancient Greek statues, worth FFr264,000 and paid for by Elf.
Which is not necessarily true there's nothing intrinsically whorish about accepting a present.
"My father never accepted a single present from anybody - except these tickets.
The schools are furious: they accepted a $2 billion cut in the present year's budget on the understanding it would be made up in the 2005-06 year.
Mr. Bush accepted a consensus set of recommendations presented last week by Gen. David H. Petraeus, the senior Iraq commander; Lt. Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, acting commander of the military's Central Command; Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Defensee Secretary Robert M. Gates, according to Pentagon and White House officials.
All of the nine-month healed grafts were accepted (present and beating) and these recipients appeared tolerant rather than ignorant of the donor as they accepted a second donor heart transplant given post immune reconstitution.
Ellen Barkin accepted a glamour award on behalf of "the Hollywood community," which seemed a lot of behalves to accept on, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. presented a humanitarian award to Liz Claiborne for her environmental work.
It is not clear where the current justices would draw the line if they were ever to accept a case that presents the question.
