In ecologically-minded places like Ann Arbor, prairies have gained a measure of acceptance.
Finally there was some measure of acceptance from his family, and political science was jettisoned.
Shame, then, is the measure of acceptance by the poor of their own responsibility for their outcast state.
In Feiglin's view, secular Zionism tried to gain a measure of acceptance from its neighbors and the world community by relinquishing land.
There he finds he is once again an outsider, though he finds a measure of acceptance among the Portuguese-Africans, whose mixed-ancestry mirrors his own.
The OCA may win even if it loses: by portraying Oregon's liberal image as the reason it failed, yet gained a measure of acceptance.
In ecologically-minded places like Ann Arbor, prairies have gained a measure of acceptance, but elsewhere would-be prairie planters have had to battle city nuisance codes, fines, and neighbors that regard their projects as weedy eyesores.
The current Iraqi Governing Council, which was handpicked by the United States, is viewed warily by many in Europe and the Arab world, although an intensive lobbying campaign has won it a measure of acceptance -- most recently from the Arab League, which today agreed to let a council appointee participate in its meetings as the Iraqi representative.
From then on, the awards flowed in steadily: the Whitbread, the Forward, the Queen's Gold Medal, even, in 1990, the Gold Medal for Australian Literature - a measure of acceptance from his native country, which had turned its back on him just as decisively as he turned his on it.
