Sentence examples for accepted title from inspiring English sources

Unlike most of his precursors -- but like John Quincy Adams, Benjamin Harrison and a handful of other presidents past -- Mr. Bush entered the White House without an unchallenged, universally accepted title to office.

Despite these texts the clergy accepted titles of honour and claimed authority and power: the Church saw itself as Christ's kingdom on earth, and claimed a share in Christ's power.

With that, he said, the lender agrees to accept title to the house from the borrower instead of foreclosing.

Article 18 prohibits the State from conferring any titles other than military or academic distinctions, and the citizens of India cannot accept titles from a foreign state.

But Courbet only grudgingly accepted the title of Realist.

Receiving partial satisfaction of their grievances, the nobles, led by Hendrik van Brederode, gladly accepted the title of Geuzen ("Beggars").

Miss Gould accepted the title "grammarian" for several decades, but grammar was only the base of things she reacted to as she monitored the magazine.

In 1466, however, he accepted the title of king of Aragon and count of Barcelona from the Catalan rebels against John II of Aragon but without result.

Barbara Tjikatu, whose husband accepted the title deeds in 1985, told the crowd she had been "speaking strongly for this country for very many years".

In 1985, Levy ordained Funnye as a rabbi, although no mainstream denomination accepted the title or Levy's right to confer it.

Pointing toward potential disruptions, one of Mr. Luzhkov's deputy mayors, Aleksandr Ryabinin, resigned Wednesday, and later that day officials said they were investigating whether he accepted the title to a small building as a bribe from a developer.