The friends who do the accepting don't know what they're accepting.
Sports may seem like the pursuit of transcendence, but they are also the accepting of obsolescence.
As a lonely child, and a confused young adult, might Fred be less God, and more the accepting, loving friend you never had?
His reward is as simple as it is profound: to see his best self reflected in the accepting eyes of another.
"It is the accepting of responsibility for a major crime on behalf of the Serbian people in a region where confronting the past has not been easy".
The accusations against the officials had spurred a national debate about whether the accepting of the state posts constituted a crime or was merely an unsavory political deal.
Shortly afterwards, François Hollande, the French president, said there should be a "permanent and obligatory mechanism" for the accepting of refugees.
And a taboo that still surrounds mental health isolates those experiencing mental illness and elevates the position of the social worker as they become seen as the accepting, non-judgmental friend.
By the later 1940s he had established himself as an expert in corporate finance, and by the late 1950s, S. G. Warburg & Company had vaulted into that inner sanctum of British merchant banking, the accepting houses (so called because their paper was accepted without question at the Bank of England), a group that included such storied names as Rothschild and Lazard.
In the broadest sense, a Daoist attitude toward life can be seen in the accepting and yielding, the joyful and carefree sides of the Chinese character, an attitude that offsets and complements the moral and duty-conscious, austere and purposeful character ascribed to Confucianism.
In the tart phrase "suck it and see", one might just about detect some of the bloody-minded passive-aggression of the Monkeys' early days – the teenage diffidence in interviews, the accepting of awards dressed as the Village People, the very northern, arms-folded rejection of all flummery, transposed from the Yorkshire dales to Sheffield's suburbs.
