Credit has to be given, and acceptance of the gift implicitly involves a reaffirmation and strengthening of fealty.
How committed would he be to the civil rights laws, given his acceptance of an honorary degree from Bob Jones University and his statement that it was wrong to describe the Confederate cause -- the preservation of slavery -- as "perverted"?
Last Friday, Mr. Chertoff announced that his agency was satisfied with the $20.6 million project, despite some early "defects," and had given final acceptance of it to the Boeing Company, its developer.
Seeking to portray the Democrats as way left of the mainstream, given their acceptance of the invitation, the Republican National Committee gleefully celebrated their arrival by releasing a videotape that linked them to some of the more controversial utterances of the Daily Kos blog's founder, Markos Moulitsas.
First, given his acceptance of the standard Academic arguments against self-warranting cognitive impressions, it offered a fallibilist theory, which allows for unqualified assent to knowledge claims on the basis of impressions that might nonetheless be false.
If this seems disingenuous, especially given his acceptance of Goebbels' invitation to take up the post of Reichsmusikkammer president on 15 November 1933, Strauss was adamant that he wished to use his influential position for the good.
Given the acceptance of a fee for group ranches by pastoralists, ranches could represent a new revenue base for public authorities, which is very important during this period of dwindling crude oil prices.
This was likely partially accounted for through the screening criterion we imposed given that acceptance of evolution influences personal decisions regarding whether or not to include it in the biology curriculum (Abrie [2010]).
Given their acceptance of the principle of bivalence and their presentation of the argument as invoking a material conditional, they blocked the sorites by claiming some one conditional to be false (since not true) and that there comes a point in any sorites series where the relevant predicate ceases to apply and its negation does.
Inside the system there is no time or space; given the acceptance of greater delicacy as the method for exploring the limits of some potential, the issue is simply what relations need to be selected, what consequences the selection of one option in a system has for another; how the meaning of one relates to that of the others.
It was followed by a statement from the High Negotiations Committee (HNC), which represents Syria's main opposition groups, which said it had "given its acceptance of international efforts for a cessation of hostilities".
