Sentence examples for accepting a present from inspiring English sources

Which is not necessarily true there's nothing intrinsically whorish about accepting a present.

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.

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.

I promise you, people will accept a present in a gift bag.

Such a sweetheart deal would certainly look as though the president had accepted a "present" from a foreign state.

Israel was moving closer to accepting a paper Rice presented -- what U.S. officials call a "framework" -- that contained terms for an end to hostilities.

"My father never accepted a single present from anybody - except these tickets.

The world needn't let itself be lulled into accepting a fatalistic metaphor that presents as triumph the salvaging of three babies from an unspeakable catastrophe and suggests that this is all it should hope for.

It is not clear where the current justices would draw the line if they were ever to accept a case that presents the question.

The milder option would spread out Greece's payments to creditors, who would have to accept a decline in the present value of their investments — an option that is starting to look like the best of an array of bad choices.