For the investing public, there are many recent events that make this view easy to accept.

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This made it easy to accept what would appear to an outsider to be completely unbelievable situations.

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Though it's easy to accept this premise in theory, most people would say that the bureaucracy in their organization feels like a crushing burden.

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"It is not nice, not easy to accept, " he said.

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All those are easy emotions to accept.

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As easy returns ebb, pressure mounts to accept more risk.

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Making the decision to accept the job was easy.

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"Obviously, this was not easy news to hear, and I didn't accept Bill's decision right away, " he said.

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The days of easy money are over, and Saudis are being required to accept it.

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Paul Krugman has been saying that solving the debt crisis would be easy if America would only accept European levels of taxation, and Obama appears to think along much the same lines.

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The recipient can accept the gift, or request to browse a gallery of same-priced items for an easy exchange (without the giver knowing).

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