Although he has accepted that the project was over-ambitious, he told games website CVG that he had always been prepared to take chances.
The call from Mr. Reid was the latest in a string of apologies Mr. Obama has accepted over the years, underscoring the sometimes uneasy evolution of race and politics in America.
There are different ways of verifying this statement – one is to look at the number of invitations shadow justice secretary Dominic Grieve has accepted over the last month to discuss Tory plans for its future (or lack of).
Another, Conservation International, has accepted over $2m from BP, advised the firm on its oil extraction methods, and from 2000 to 2006 included on its board John Browne, BP's boss at the time and the moving force behind the firm's conversion to greenery.
Of the 129 companies that TechStars (which publishes its success rates), for instance, has accepted over the past three years in the same timeframe as Thiel— 98% are still in operation, and 69% were able to raise venture capital.
Since January 2009, AFT has accepted over $11.3 million from the Gates Foundation, $5.4 million of which is earmarked for CCSS.
2.5 percent of the population are international migrants and Turkey has accepted over a million Syrian refugees since the beginning of the Syrian Civil War.
The US Department of Justice says that "since August 2008, Coutts has accepted over $150 million in inflows from other Swiss banks that were being investigated by the department".
State Elections Board's website, Andrew Cuomo's campaign has accepted over $50,000 from the Tea Party's biggest funder (and, many believe, founder) mogul David Koch.
Another factor to consider here is that since 2012, the US has accepted over 100,000 Syrians on a variety of visas (work, student, family).
