The Germans, however, posed extremely harsh conditions, causing a split in the Bolshevik high command: Lenin favoured accepting whatever terms the Germans offered, but the majority of his associates, arguing that this would mean a betrayal of the German working class, refused to make formal peace with the imperial government.
Only a handful of Conservative MPs voted in favour of accepting the child refugees.
If ever there was an argument in favour of accepting the status quo, and therefore against all that she is doing, then that must surely be it.
On 19 October 2007, the directors of Southampton Leisure Holdings, the club's parent company, voted 5-2 in favour of accepting the £40m deal that Sisu had put forward.
Farage said he could not be "accused of being closed-minded" as he had been in favour of accepting some Christian refugees from Syria.
Labour's central committee voted by 680 to 507 in favour of accepting the deal, despite opposition from within among the party hierarchy.
Although the minority administration is struggling in the polls, its warm welcome to refugees has struck a chord among Swedes, with polls suggesting a sharp rise in opinion in favour of accepting greater numbers.
However, even if it is successful in doing this, it is by no means clear that the German people would vote in favour of accepting full liability for eurozone debt.
When Whitelaw said his own postbag indicated a shift of opinion in favour of accepting more refugees, the prime minister said that "in her view all those who wrote letters in this sense should be invited to accept one into their homes.
When I entertained the residents of Covent Garden with renditions of Hoochie Coochie Man - which could now get me arrested for its reference to Gypsy women telling my mother she'd got a bun in the oven, I thought I was doing the poor pyjama-clad bugger a favour by accepting his £5 buy-out to clear off for the night... it was quite early by the way.
We have all been reading during the last week about how Football League clubs have voted in favour of accepting the Premier League's proposals for the new Elite Player Performance Plan .
