Sentence examples for won acceptance for from inspiring English sources

For the next 10 years there was peace between the two remaining brothers, and Constans won acceptance for a religious policy favourable to the Nicaeans, whose leader, Athanasius, had received a triumph in Alexandria.

Finally, in probing the dynamics of large-scale change in science reconstructing the ways in which Darwin won acceptance for his evolutionary theory, for example the concepts introduced by Kuhn and those who reacted to his work seem more readily applicable.

Aetna continued to talk with ING but it may now be hoping for a better offer.Europe v HollywoodVivendi, a French media and utilities group, won acceptance for its bid to acquire Seagram, a Canadian media and drinks company, valued at $34 billion, along with the 51% of Canal Plus, a French pay-TV company, that it does not already own, to create the world's second-largest media group.

It had barely won acceptance for display at the Paris Salon, and criticism likened it to "a statue of a sleepwalker" and called it "an astonishingly accurate copy of a low type".

Asclepiades did much to win acceptance for Greek medicine in Rome.

While New York officials try to win acceptance for their plan, London is forging ahead.

RealNetworks tried to win acceptance for its formats, Mr. Bernoff said, but in music it has failed.

Within two years stories of his Alaskan adventures, though often crude, began to win acceptance for their fresh subject matter and virile force.

For Monet, Renoir, Pissarro, Sisley and their peers it was final confirmation that their struggle to win acceptance for their unacademic, light-infused paintings had been successful.

The move hardly reflected a disappearance of homophobia in Russia; no small part of the motivation was to win acceptance for Russia abroad.

Scholars say he approved Bartholdi's clay models, and gave him introductions to Americans ranging from President Ulysses S. Grant to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow to win acceptance for the statue.