The phrase "act of accepting" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the process or action of agreeing to something or receiving something willingly.
Example: "The act of accepting the terms and conditions is necessary before proceeding with the registration."
Alternatives: "process of acceptance" or "gesture of acceptance".
The same goes for "friending," the act of accepting someone into a social network online — which Facebook helped popularize.
I mean that the act of accepting payment, of taking the check or the cash in your hands, temporarily staves off some deeper doubt about your worth.
Eventually, however, he discovered (with lapses) that he could be released from those torments by the simple act of accepting God's love for him.
It was money itself — in the form of grants, given by well-meaning people — and the act of accepting it meant the excesses could never be quite as spontaneous again.
On the 16th it will be the motive of the Pillar and the Trunk — the act of defying the law of gravitation; and on the 23rd it will be the Recumbent Figure — the act of accepting the law of gravity.
The letter also says Biomax offered a Planned Parenthood affiliate $1,600 for a fetal liver and thymus, presumably to trap the affiliate in the act of accepting a high payment for fetal tissue.
On June 28 , 1906 Standard Oil of Indiana was indicted on 6,428 counts of violation of the Elkins Act for accepting rebates on shipments on the Chicago & Alton Railroad.
"Doublethink" is the act of simultaneously accepting as correct two mutually contradictory beliefs.
In 1975, Mr. Stans pleaded guilty to three counts of violating the reporting sections of the Federal Election Campaign Act and to two counts of accepting illegal campaign contributions.
The act of photographing accepts no compromise: It involves pushing the physical limits of life and possessing the world through absorption and adsorption.
The board refused to hear such evidence holding that it was bound by § 17 of the Immigration Act to accept as final the medical certification that she was a mental defective.
