Sentence examples for accommodate rather from inspiring English sources

Signs of increased hostility from a state that has often preferred to accommodate rather than confront the Brotherhood have persuaded many of its members of a need to retrench and lie low for the time being.

Aiming not at perfection but at improvement, accepting the vagaries of human nature as a premise that policy must accommodate, rather than wish away, meliorism forces a longer, more calibrated approach.

He hasn't used it that way; the considerable cash he has put into campaigns has been spent learning how to best to accommodate, rather than as a safeguard against ever having to do so.

Under Blair, the party generally sought to accommodate rather than challenge rightwing interests: Gould decided that the Mail was "the key influencer of Middle Britain", Blair that Murdoch was "immensely powerful".

The Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq, whose Iranian-trained Badr militia is Iraq's largest Shia one, has made much of Sunni killings of Shias as "spies" in and around the militant Sunni town of Fallujah.In his struggle to gain control, Mr Allawi is seeking to accommodate rather than squash the various sectarian factions.

"In particular in the context of climate change adaptation there is a real danger of misuse, or abuse, of the term, as it seems to be increasingly co-opted to accommodate rather than challenge forms of development that are implicated in human-caused climate change and other global environmental problems.

This was his fringe debut, in the Gilded Balloon's Wee Room, which accommodates rather fewer that 47m people.

Iraq is slowly learning the give-and-take of a system where differences are accommodated rather than quashed.

Labour accommodated rather than reversed her attack on the welfare state and left her employment legislation almost untouched.

They would rather, as Kenneth Collins of the theater company Temporary Distortion said, "be in a more functional theater," one that accommodates rather than inhibits their ideas.

REFLECTIONS on Western Europe's attitude toward the United States and its Finlandization, or policy of accommodating rather than confronting the Soviet Union, as Finland has done.