For decades, many Californians accepted without question that Hollister Ranch was a private oasis that sometimes granted access to scientists, academics, historical societies, environmental groups and schoolchildren.
Likewise, we've accepted, without question, that since some families are dysfunctional, intact families are overrated.
And foundations, private funding, have become such a huge part of the educational landscape that we accept without question that so many projects should be sustained by these kinds of grants.
He has doubts about kneeling in front of the Queen – but why should we accept without question that an elected MP, who is then elected a leader (doubly elected) must kneel in front of a non-elected monarch?
And yet we members are supposed to accept, without question, that the proponents of a strike on Syria have accurately depicted the underlying evidence, even though the proponents refuse to show any of it to us or to the American public.
"I am someone who runs a mile from any form of physical confrontation normally, but I never understand why broadcasters seem to accept without question that someone with a placard or a loud voice should disrupt this sort of interview," he said.
And Alan Williams, president of Manchester AUT, who himself spent a dozen years on fixed-term contracts before securing an open-ended appointment, is hopeful that the regulations and guidelines will "provide a lever to change this existing 'casualisation culture' that accepts without question that fixed-term funding should virtually automatically mean fixed-term contracts".
"We do not claim to be any sort of superpower," he said, but added that the West accepts "without question the equality of good and evil" and endorses a brand of tolerance that is "neutered and barren".
In addition to excising the moral debate that raged over the interrogation program during the Bush years, the film also seems to accept almost without question that the C.I.A.'s "enhanced interrogation techniques" played a key role in enabling the agency to identify the courier who unwittingly led them to bin Laden.
We automatically accept, almost without question, that Medicare and Social Security, success stories by anyone's definition, must be altered, or perhaps dismantled, in order to save the programs.
By the later 1940s he had established himself as an expert in corporate finance, and by the late 1950s, S. G. Warburg & Company had vaulted into that inner sanctum of British merchant banking, the accepting houses (so called because their paper was accepted without question at the Bank of England), a group that included such storied names as Rothschild and Lazard.
