Sentence examples for content to accept from inspiring English sources

He was, as most of his critics failed, or refused, to notice, doctrinally orthodox on the resurrection, and content to accept the tradition of the virgin birth, but his contention that other priests had the right to question them was intolerable to the Anglo-Catholic wing of the Church, led by Gore.

If they do not see strikes, they are content to accept a walk.

As De Gaulle had done, Mitterrand was content to accept Henri into his circle of admirers.

Japan seems to have pulled into a shell, content to accept its slow fade from the global stage.

I felt no need to verify that but was content to accept it for what it was.

For now, Western observers in Benghazi, the temporary rebel capital 180 miles from here, seem content to accept those assurances.

He excelled without aspiring to heroism — content, always, to accept a base on balls rather than risk humiliation by taking a cut at a low-percentage offering.

Not content simply to accept a world in which others are not as intelligent as he is, he set out to explain this surprising incompetence.

And the Wolverhampton-based Express & Star, the biggest regional newspaper outside London, established a "user-generated content desk" to accept contributions from the public.

"She was content merely to accept praise for illustrating her husband's work," the historians Robert L. Herbert and Daria D'Arienzo write in "Orra White Hitchcock: An Amherst Woman of Art and Science" (Mead Art Museum).

Parents, then, are faced with a new digital-era quandary: is it better to try to shield children from explicit content, or to accept that it is so ubiquitous that it has become a fact of life, requiring its own conversation?