Bishop Walsh, who was appointed to Ferns after the scandal broke, has publicly accepted the findings of the report and repeated his apology to victims.
Pelosi also suggested that Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn)., who is facing allegations of his own, was a different case partly because one of his alleged victims has publicly accepted his apology.
James Hormel, the Clinton ambassadorial nominee who was said to have resented a fourteen-year-old anti-gay slur, has publicly accepted Hagel's apology.
"For members of the gay and lesbian community, it became frighteningly apparent that we need to have publicly accepted records of our private commitments," he said.
Certainly Big Food bears some measure of responsibility for our national eating disorder -- a reality that a growing number of food companies have publicly accepted.
Many congressmen who have lauded J Street for what it is doing are wary of backing it openly, though it says more than 40 (of 435 in the House of Representatives) have publicly accepted its endorsement.
In late May, the White House approved a climate report that was then submitted by the State Department to the United Nations, though it contained far more dire projections of harm from global warming than Mr. Bush had publicly accepted.
Trevor Hall, an adviser to the home secretary on race relations, who is in his mid-50s, says he has been stopped more than 30 times by the police, an experience shared by many other black professionals.Although the Metropolitan Police Commissioner refused to accept at the Lawrence inquiry that "institutional racism" permeates his force, other chief constables have publicly accepted this.
"By admitting that they engaged in criminal harassment toward Phoebe Prince, these two defendants have publicly accepted responsibility for their actions, and have been held accountable," Steven E. Gagne, the assistant district attorney, said after the proceedings Wednesday in Hampshire Superior Court in Northampton, Mass.
The exit of Ms. Jurgensen, who had previously worked as the editorial page editor, was the first instance in which a senior editor at the newspaper had publicly accepted responsibility for what it found to be the journalistic fraud of Mr. Kelley.
So far some 53,000 people have signed the RSPCA petition (exceeding the charity's expectation of 50,000 signatories) but as yet none of the major retailers have publicly accepted the RSPCA's challenge and committed to only selling higher-welfare chicken by the 2010 deadline.
