Having heard it for decade, I no longer accept it as the pat answer in response to the manufacturing decline.

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Even the greatest powers now accept that military solutions alone are not the answer to the terrorist problem.

ECONOMIST: International

Even though they cannot accept the concept of empire, the answer appears to be yes, to a point.

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But separatist Serb officials told the government at a meeting at a Sarajevo airport they did not have the authority to accept the offer and would give an answer Wednesday.

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One answer is to accept the inevitable.

ECONOMIST: China and foreign companies

For them, the Dutch answer is to accept that they will never shake off their addiction and, instead, to attempt to control it.

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Mr Howard forced his director of prisons, Derek Lewis, to resign, while declining to accept much in the way of responsibility himself, famously refusing to answer a question put 14 times by a television interviewer suggesting he had made Mr Lewis a scapegoat.

ECONOMIST: Bagehot

And I knew that there could be no other answer to the question than this: Society has to accept that women of my generation have sexual lives that are going to leak into the public sphere.

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One answer, of course, is to disconnect your computer from the internet completely, and never to accept any form of portable media from anyone.

ECONOMIST: Putting a stop to online infection