When communism collapsed and the iron curtain came down in 1989, the EU pledged to embrace the countries of the east by admitting them to its club.
In the early nineties, two close friends began to develop symptoms, and periodically their doctors would admit them to St . Vincents.
More than 10,000 patients had to wait longer than four hours for a bed once a decision was made to admit them to hospital from A&E.
When the glass door closed, a second door admitted them to the area where they could get the elevator to the roof, on the 23rd floor.
Since then, Irving writes, "no true Dutchman will admit them to his table who loves good fish and hates the devil".
In practice, the baseball writers for most newspapers carry universal passes that admit them to the games, and thus can provide written coverage without signing the credential.
Should governments separate the concept of protecting asylum-seekers, to which the refugee convention binds them, from that of admitting them to the country they want to go to?
GPs, sympathetic to the shortcomings of some of their patients, admit them to the ranks of the disabled when, like Otto's cousin, they are unfortunate but not unemployable.
I have lost count of the number of people now in their twenties who confess their disappointment at turning 11 and not getting a letter admitting them to Hogwarts.
Officials in several ports along Italy's Adriatic coast routinely return stowaways on ferries from Greece within hours, without adequately considering requests for asylum or, in the case of children, admitting them to determine their best interests, the report said.
