The phrase "accepting instructions" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to the act of receiving or agreeing to follow directions or commands.
Example: "The team is currently accepting instructions from the project manager to ensure everyone is on the same page."
Alternatives: "receiving directives" or "taking orders."
The Taino soon lost reverence for their Spanish "protectors," who expected the Indians to act as vassals, paying tribute in gold and food as well as accepting instruction in the Christian religion.
Prosecutors said the scheme began in September, when Citibank received a package with documents purportedly signed by officials of the Ethiopian bank instructing Citibank to accept instructions by fax.
Worshipers accept instructions from an executive operating from a raised platform at the front.
Previously dressmakers went to the houses of ladies and accepted instructions.
"I won't accept instructions from the palace".When he took office, Mr Khasawneh raised hopes for reform.
They surrender to and accept instructions from a designated leader rather than examining each new assertion on its own merits, for its own accuracy.
Pressure, however, could be exercised by the magistrate on a defendant who refused to accept instructions that the magistrate had approved, just as a plaintiff could be forced to alter instructions that the magistrate had disapproved, by the magistrate's refusal to otherwise give the order to the judex to decide the case.
For a certain consideration, a merchant stood prepared to accept instructions to pay money to a named party through one of his agents elsewhere; the amount of the bill of exchange would be debited by his agent to the account of the merchant banker, who would also hope to make an additional profit from exchanging one currency against another.
What JFK said in that speech is: "I believe in an America... where no public official either requests or accept instructions on public policy from the Pope".
President Kennedy stressed that he believed "in an America... where no public official either requests or accepts instructions on public policy from the Pope, the National Council of Churches or any other ecclesiastical source".
