The phrase "accepting anything of value" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing ethics, legality, or transactions where value is exchanged.
Example: "The company has a strict policy against accepting anything of value from clients to avoid conflicts of interest."
Alternatives: "receiving any valuable items" or "taking anything of worth".
He said he believed that a Minnesota law prohibiting government officials from accepting "anything of value" from contractors would apply to the hotel stay and dinners.
The vote by the Judicial Conference of the United States, a 27-member group that held its semiannual meeting at the Supreme Court today, came in response to a recent Senate bill to prohibit federal judges from accepting "anything of value" -- meaning reimbursement of expenses -- "in connection with a seminar".
There is also a provision of the Constitution known as the Emoluments Clause that bars presidents from accepting anything of value from foreign governments unless Congress allows it.
But as a general matter, the conflict of interest works the other way around: a professor ought not accept anything of value from a student because it might bias her come grading time.
The state's ethics law forbids legislators and other government employees to accept anything of value -- even a cup of coffee -- from a lobbyist or a constituent, and nearly every politician here long followed the law to the letter.
The Emoluments Clause was a prophylactic approach: if government officials never accept anything of value from foreigners, then there's no ambiguity about whether such gifts are influencing them.
Mr. Salerno's lawyer, Oliver S. Storch, told the jury in his opening argument that although Mr. Salerno accepted gifts, "So what?" He said that there was no quid pro quo -- that Mr. Salerno did not accept anything of value to steer a case.
The federal bribery law makes it a crime for a public official to "corruptly demand, seek, receive, accept or agree to receive or accept anything of value personally...in return for being influenced in the performance of any official act".
It's taken me a long time to accept what I do for a living and actually feel like I have anything of value to add to the equation".
And there is good reason to think that Arcesilaus did not accept anything of Stoic epistemology.
Canadians shouldn't accept anything of the sort.
