"I'm a Yankee fan, don't follow basketball," said the 67-year-old Phillip Lief, a doctor from White Plains who was accepted without challenge from either side.
The argument holding back higher pay — a theory that Republicans accept without challenge — is that raising wages for the poorest workers would be bad for companies, and bad for hiring.
From there it was a short step to thinking that everything a pope said had to be accepted without challenge and that teachings could never be questioned or modified.
So for purposes of discussion, I will accept without challenge Ms. Clausing's claims about the tax plan and compare these to the 4 major adverse impacts just listed regarding Obamacare (I will further assume the Republican plan passes this week on a party-line vote since that's the widespread consensus).
Though the article in the New York Times accepted without challenge the statements by Zakaria, and even said that what he had done wasn't really plagiarism at all, it obviously was plagiarism, which wasn't really in question in the case, and the only real question about the plagiarism was whether he did it himself, or whether a "research assistant" (ghostwriter) did it for him.
While much of the rest of the committee's report would be accepted without serious challenge on the Convention floor, these last three proposals would provoke outrage from Northern delegates and slavery opponents.
In some cases, the board said, companies used assumptions that were contrary to past experience, but the auditor had accepted them without challenge.
And perhaps the real challenge lies within; challenging received ideas that we have accepted without scrutiny, without debate and without challenge.
My biggest challenge is accepting without bitterness that I can't be active with my family and friends.
The more often our children are exposed to content – whatever its nature – the more important it will seem to them, and the more often they do so passively the more likely they are to accept that content without challenge.
