Sentence examples for accepted without demur from inspiring English sources

They were accepted without demur, and the matter, to my astonished relief, was never raised again.

Michelangelo regularly denied that anyone influenced him, and his statements have usually been accepted without demur.

Certainly his view that religion is the one sphere of society in which it's accepted without demur that parents have an absolute right over what their children believe is a bizarre one.

There can be few people left who believe he painted The Man with the Golden Helmet in Berlin's Gemäldegalerie, which was once not only accepted without demur but revered as a touchstone of Rembrandt's work by such authorities of yesteryear as Jakob Rosenberg, WR Valentiner and the much-feared Wilhelm Bode, but also by a huge public.

The agent I consulted told me to accept without demur: it was, he said, nigh-on impossible for new writers to get published – let alone paid.

Editors and journalists appear to have accepted it without demur up to and including the second world war, when self-censorship was the order of the day for Britain's press.

It was undoubtedly a mischievous rumour, but William Hague accepted it without demur: Hugo Chávez had offered asylum to Colonel Gaddafi.

Shelby accepted without a fight.

Students have been accepted without summer internships.

He accepted without hesitation.

Incredibly, she accepted this decision without demur and in the next scene was discussing hair care choices and how to maximise her husband's chances of electoral victory.