Last December, Oliver Balch looked back at 2014 and saw growing acceptance that business would play an ever-growing role in fighting climate change, while governments would sit in relatively smaller seats.
But now there's growing acceptance that it's not that simple.
There is growing acceptance that regulation can put governments in control.
There has been growing acceptance that Trump can get away with saying things that other candidates can't.
A ComRes poll of 100 peers shows a growing acceptance that constitutional reform is inevitable following the parliamentary expenses scandal.
In Britain, Cable said: "Now there's a growing acceptance that we're a better country for being diverse.
The clamour signifies a growing acceptance that Higuaín has definitively made the leap from sub-elite to truly world class.
Despite his promise, however, there is growing acceptance that it will take months even years to find any trace of flight MH370, which disappeared on March 8th.
And there will be a growing acceptance that this period in their life is on the retreat, thoroughly dwindling in relevance.
The survey also found a growing acceptance that genetics, rather than parenting, peers or God's will, was responsible for sexual orientation.
There is a growing acceptance that a watery graveyard is a necessary evil for the maintenance of a free and prosperous Europe.
