In Men In Black, Vincent D'Onofrio's shotgun-totin' redneck, faced with an alien that wants his body for a jumpsuit, quotes verbatim a favourite gun-nut bumper-sticker: "You can have my gun - when you pry it from my cold, dead hands!" To which his tentacled tormentor replies: "Your terms are acceptable".
Speaking after the meeting, managing director, Andy Cooper, said: "We have reached an agreement with the RMT regional officer regarding the issues they raised, and now await confirmation that the terms are acceptable and the strike will be called off".
Once you're satisfied the terms are acceptable, and you want to go ahead with the cancellation, click the gray Cancel button.
Still, the terms were acceptable to the vast majority of the country's creditors, who exchanged their old claims for new ones worth 30 cents on the dollar.
"Apart from the terms being acceptable to the current owners, the buyer will need to demonstrate they are a fit person to run the club and have a realistic plan for running the club successfully.
Donna [whose last name is being withheld] Evincing no umbrage, but not taking a perceived blot on The New Yorker's escutcheon lightly, I threw down the, uh, whichever one is right in this context: Dear Donna [whose last name is still being withheld], We checked into that, and both terms are now considered acceptable.
Gary Arnold, the spokesman for Little People of America, said the term was acceptable as recently as 1957, when his group was formed as Midgets of America, but the name was changed three years later.
Those with interest in the matter from afar counsel nicotine gum and patches (long- or short-term is acceptable to some), counseling (which sounds like the premise for a movie with Billy Crystal) and continued exercise.
By failing to do so with the term "anchor baby," however, the dictionary implies that the term is acceptable in common usage and misleads the public by insinuating that giving birth to a child in the United States necessarily carries with it the intention of using that child for immigration status.
See if you can agree with your boss to prepare an "exit statement" that will describe your departure in terms that are acceptable to both of you, Mr. Opton said.
