The board reviewed 10 or so cases at each monthly meeting, out of which it accepted just a handful, the ones that seemed most likely to lead to a new insight into a known disease, or, even better, to a diagnosis of a disease never before seen.
These are grant competitions, basically, and NASA received 1,278 proposals, of which it accepted 399.
Speed-camera fines, for example, will rise by 50% to £60 to meet the costs of enforcement.The Treasury has sought to draw a distinction between charges for, say, parking or congestion (the revenues of which it accepts can be hypothecated), and ordinary taxes which must remain inviolate.
Mr. Gracey said that the Lawrenceville School usually got 90 applications each year from students seeking to do postgraduate work, of which it accepts about 25. "We look for someone with a great sense of initiative, and we like to see them adding something to the community in arts, athletics or having students from around the world," Mr. Gracey said.
The historical debacle of reason's conflict with itself provides Kant with a dramatic exhibition of the vacillation of reason between two alternatives, neither of which it can accept (or dismiss) without dissatisfaction.
And I received two marriage proposals in my life, both of which I accepted at different times, of course.
Mr Marriner gave evidence about this in his witness statement (the contents of which, it will be recalled, were also accepted by Mr Suárez).
Certainly his view that religion is the one sphere of society in which it's accepted without demur that parents have an absolute right over what their children believe is a bizarre one.
The other tendency favored a moderate or mitigated form of skepticism, which, though it accepted the first skeptical doctrine that nothing can be known, held that it is permissible for the wise to form opinions by assenting to non-cognitive impressions so long as they are sufficiently probable and the assent given to them is bestowed in the provisional spirit of Carneades' second proposal.
With half the book written, she sent it off to publishers, the lucky 13th of which accepted it and paid her a small advance to write the last half.
Another potential obstacle is Iran's insistence that its right to enrich uranium be acknowledged now as part of the negotiations under which it would accept constraints on its nuclear activity.
