Sentence examples for was to accept a from inspiring English sources

His last great act of folly was to accept a peerage and not campaign at the 1880 general election.

The only way for him to do that, short of dying or moving to another state, was to accept a nomination for a judgeship.

Tyree said the turning point for him was to accept "a certain level of surrender" to forces stronger than football or its players.

The Mandelsonian misjudgment was to accept a £373,000 ($630,000) loan from Geoffrey Robinson, a rich colleague, and then to keep it secret even when his department was investigating Mr Robinson's business affairs.

Perhaps the worst change made by the summit was to accept a last-minute bid by Mr Sarkozy to drop a planned reference to free and undistorted competition as one of the union's key objectives.

Walsh was told he had a type of bone cancer called Ewing's sarcoma in 2009, just before he was to accept a full scholarship to attend Vermont's Green Mountain Valley School.

Mr. Trudeau hit the slopes in Aspen, Colo., the day before he was to accept an award at the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival.

To be photographed by him is to accept a dare.

So unless it is to accept a drastic contraction itself, BAE needs to diversify.

To confront truth, these parallels suggest, is to accept a degree of damage.

Another is to accept a job that entails greater safety risks.