Sentence examples for word acceptance from inspiring English sources
Finally, the word acceptance does not mean that we accept a damaging behavior.
To many, I think, the word "acceptance" has negative connotations--implying compliance, resignation, submission, even victimization.
However, the word acceptance actually comes from an old English usage meaning "to receive from".
On Monday, I asked for suggestions for the 5 word acceptance speech I would give at last night's Webby Awards.
Of course, not everyone's an Olympian, so my interpretation/real life application of these general guidelines comes down to one word: acceptance.
The fact that it took subjects the same time to reject both types of pseudoword variants, together with the finding that pseudoword rejection took longer than word acceptance, point to a process that detects pseudowords and guides responses in the lexical decision task independently of initially asymmetric lexical activation.
Winners at the Webby Awards are allowed five-word acceptance speeches.
Jack adds: There's an incomplete compilation of 5-word acceptance speeches from 1999 to 2008 on the Webby Awards site.
22.53 EST I realise I haven't yet explained that each award category includes about twenty different companies/individuals who each come up and give a five-word acceptance speech.
PATRICK McGEEHAN KEEP ON BLOGGING When Arianna Huffington won a Webby Award last year for her blog, The Huffington Post, she was limited to a five-word acceptance speech: "Darlings, make blogs, not war".
But by the time she'd sobbed her way through a three-minute, 365-word acceptance speech for her Best Actress award, her look had gone from regal to ridiculous.
