"I think that's one of its important and unfortunate impacts is that it makes Canadians very cynical and, in a certain way, almost accepting that the Conservatives are going to do things like this," he says.
Almost everyone accepts that EMU will start on time on January 1st 1999.Nothing in life is certain, least of all plans as bold as this.
It is almost accepted wisdom that the government is leading a revolution in education under the banner of the academy and free school programme.
Almost everyone would accept that holding these assets raises their prices and lowers interest rates compared to the scenario in which private investors have to absorb all of them.
"Sometimes it's cheaper to buy something large because you get a lot of it for a low price, but of course there will be food waste, but you've almost got to accept that".
Managers routinely angle for jobs that are already filled and it is almost accepted these days that football clubs will have their new men lined up before the old ones have been told to collect their belongings.
No one can, or should, accept that almost half of all prisoners are reconvicted within just one year of release.
She left her home and her country at 16 years old for an almost 4,000 mile journey, accepting that death was a possible consequence of her migration, of her determination to live in a free country.
Caine was so eager to do the delicate comedy-drama that he almost accepted it without reading the script.
