But who pays for this failure to enter the 21st century and accept reality?
Siren voices say it is time to accept reality, forget Dayton and leave the parties to go their separate ways.
Prices are prices, and if we're not willing to accept reality, investors in global markets will make sure we do anyway.
Emily, meanwhile, has to accept reality.
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Manufacturers have to accept the reality is that typing will rule for some time.
For millennia, people have had little option but to accept a reality that was imposed upon them externally.
Arafat and his cohorts will have no choice but to accept that reality.
Bishop Peter Price said the church needed to recognise there are many Christians who accept the reality and validity of homosexual relationships.
Cripps and Wilson were reluctant to accept the reality of market forces.
"If anyone is feeling that way they have to allow themselves accept the reality that we don't have control of our fate, " he said.
So it's hard for Americans to understand if you can't accept the reality with this is what's happening, how is there going to way forward?
After all, we accept this reality in politics and high finance.
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But there will be cases where religious liberty will trump, and same-sex couples will have to accept the reality that not everyone accepts their relationships as legitimate.
Oscar Pistorius' existence now forces us to explicitly accept that reality -- now we see his carbon fiber legs, and even though we know they have inferior energy return to biological legs, their presence challenges us.
If he can accept the harsh reality of the market then there's hope for the entire region.
This is when we read and hear in the media about a possibility so much we begin to accept it as reality.
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Musicians from the iTunes generation may accept the new reality more readily.
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As the 21st century moves into its sixth year, many people have come to accept the geopolitical reality that neither nation can control the entire territory.
Finally, it seemed, Eurocrats were ready to reject the bailout panacea and accept the hard reality that everybody will lose money before the euro crisis is finished.
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"Deep down there was always the hope something might turn up but, unfortunately, we must now face reality and accept that isn't going to happen", Mr Turner added.
The less-than-optimal response is continued full confidence in my original belief, and a refusal to accept the possibility that the new reality is true.
But now we fans must accept that the inevitable has become a reality with relegation to the Blue Square Premiership.
This will be a hard reality for many Japanese to accept, and will cause a certain amount of anguish and loss in Japan.
And that is just a reality that you have to accept if you're President, that there are going to be times when the campaign has to wait because he has to make important decisions, have important conversations with foreign leaders, or meetings with staff and others -- members of Congress -- to get the work done that needs to be done.
He argues that all of reality can be explained if readers accept that information is at the root of everything.
The reality is that seniors will be forced to accept whatever plan they can afford.
We like virtual reality headsets, but we also refuse to accept any such headsets with displays below 7-inches in size.
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In reality though, women often struggle with how to graciously accept a compliment while not coming across as vain, overly confident, or stuck-up.
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