Sentence examples for power to accept from inspiring English sources

Were the Conservatives greedy enough for power to accept such a hobbling?

But opting out gives him the power to accept or reject any trade the Knicks attempt.

The question is how long it will take for those who currently hold power to accept this.

This week France became the first western power to accept the opposition coalition as the legitimate government-in-exile.

'What's that nice little phrase - "give me the power to accept the things I can't change"?' she says, in her chewy Bolton purr.

The board has the power to accept, reject or rewrite the TEKS, and over the past few years, in language arts, science and now social studies, the members have done all of the above.

Dulles had persuaded most of the Allied powers to accept the treaty.

He warned that for the major powers to accept anything less than the demand for an end to enrichment would be a victory for Tehran.

This does not mean the democratic aspirations of Syria's original protesters should be abandoned, or that the Syrian government should not start to implement the Geneva principles for transition that Annan briefly persuaded the big powers to accept.

So for the administration to persuade China, Brazil and the other rising powers to accept another American atop the World Bank — on the heels of another European taking the top job at the International Monetary Fund — would require an indisputably heavyweight candidate.

Francesc Vendrell, a former special representative in Afghanistan for both the UN and the EU, argues that for the foreign powers to accept this election would be an "enormous error".