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accepted English
Meaning accepted meaning
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Simple sentences
The theory is generally accepted.
The theory is not accepted.
Ten years ago his theory would not have been generally accepted.
He accepted my idea.
Jessie accepted the invitation at once.
Lucy accepted to marry a rich young man called Cecil.
Tom accepted the apology.
Tom accepted the job.
Tom has been accepted to medical school.
The committee accepted the proposal.
We accepted her invitation.
She cannot be accepted.
He was accepted to a local college.
You should have accepted his advice.
We accepted his offer.
Beth was committed to Chris and eagerly accepted.
She accepted our offer notwithstanding.
The theory is not accepted yet.
That problem was accepted.
The fork made its way to Western tables several hundred years later, but it was not immediately accepted.
It is now a fully accepted idea that all occupations should be open to women.
No gratuity accepted.
We regret that your application has not been accepted.
I invited him to the party and he accepted.
We accepted his invitation.
I took a chance and accepted his challenge.
I accepted his invitation.
I accepted a present from his sister.
I accepted her invitation.
Movie subtitles
I poured you a glass, and you accepted it!
And we were both being accepted.
I don't know why you accepted this mission, but I guarantee you.
I accepted this proposition.
I would have accepted.
He has accepted my architectural plans for the development of Cocoanut Manor.
I was accepted by the bar in 1928.
They accepted me right away, though nobody gets into the company.
Of course, not a testament in the accepted sense of the word.
Good Lord, man. If I had known your nature, I would not have accepted you as boson of a river barge.
Today it is accepted as commonplace, even used in anesthesia.
Accepted. With the most ineffable pleasure.
I accepted her favors because I thought she loved me.
Sir Guy accepted our invitation. We'd be rude not to accept his.
The Emperor accepted our proposals.
Various outlines, treatments and scripts were submitted by 12 writers, before RC Sherriffs approach was accepted by all involved, including author HG Wells.
Do you mean to say you accepted flowers from a stranger in the street?
You could have accepted that caretaker position last week.
I hope this means I'm accepted in polite society.
But you must remember that you loved Geoffrey when you accepted him. He's been away a long time.
Thank you, but I would not have accepted in any case.
Sir Guy accepted our invitation.
Has he accepted?
I'm delighted you accepted my invitation.
That's all? Tell those people that accepted our political donations, that I'm going to publicly announce them.
Since I did not have the necessary capital, she proposed to sell her jewels for cash. I accepted this proposition.
I accepted the first man who really wanted to marry me.
It's for you that I accepted everything.
Shinkichi has accepted you in his heart.
That's why I accepted his offer.
Mr. Yamato is very pleased that you've accepted his invitation!
In attempting to stop this hemorrhage, the only accepted method is a mattress suture.
Yet Dr. Weeks discarded the accepted method, took parts from the rectus muscle and sewed them into the liver, accomplishing nothing other than to cause more hemorrhage.
Times being what they were, I accepted the job retaining my balloon against the advent of a quick getaway.
You came to my house, you accepted my hospitality, and you lied to me.
News and current affairs
Last October, Mohamed El Baradei, the head of the IAEA, announced that Iran had accepted enhanced inspection procedures.
If this constitution were accepted in anything like the proposed form, the EU would gain many attributes and trappings of statehood: its own president and foreign minister, its own legal system.
A United Nations plan for unification was accepted by the Turkish part.
Most states nowadays lie within borders that are widely accepted as legitimate, and they increasingly abide by international norms of behavior in times of war.
Necessity sometimes dictates that risks be accepted, as Britain did in 1939.
Such proposals, if accepted, would help resolve the current dispute to everyone's satisfaction.
In a sense, John Paul II accepted Poland as it is with the hope that people will find more pleasure in democracy and in the free market when they love each other.
After all, the Kurds have, by any internationally accepted standards, a right to self-determination.
The outcome was paradoxical, and not to the liking of those who initiated it: but the right of the communities to determine their future was accepted.
Incredibly, the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in New York decided that this meant that if Argentina paid in full what it owed those who had accepted debt restructuring, it had to pay in full what it owed to the vultures.
Last month, however, the military prosecutor accepted Colonel Budanov's argument that he was temporarily insane when he killed the girl, and so acquitted Budanov on the charge of murder.
The death sentences and torturing that were then imposed on almost entire nations and millions of people are, it now appears, to be silently accepted and noisily celebrated on May 9 in Moscow.
It is now widely accepted that financial assistance alone will not bring about effective poverty reduction.
Moreover, it appears that whatever contribution rate the employer chooses tends to be accepted passively by the employee, as does whatever investment allocation (between stocks and bonds, for example) is established.
The type of rescheduling proposed here would signal the Greek government's readiness to service its debt in full, and thus might be accepted without too much disruption in financial markets.
Tymoshenko has accepted the deal; Yanukovych has not.
A lesson emerges: with the deepening of the economic crisis, on the one hand, and instant global connectivity, on the other, what was accepted yesterday is regarded as intolerable today.
So Pakistanis have grimly accepted military rule as their destiny.
The use of force to settle scores and impose one nation's will upon another cannot be accepted passively.
The necessity of a banking union is now more generally accepted, and there is a move to augment the European budget with funds that could be deployed with policy or project conditionality, in addition to ESM resources.