They could accept a payment of bread and fruit for their labor, but they were not allowed to have money.
For example, 46% of streetside respondents and 74% of those replying on the Internet said they could accept a gay sibling.
It includes ideas many Republicans have said they could accept as well.
By dealing with the revenue question piecemeal, the deals have wasted political capital that might otherwise be spent convincing Republicans that they could accept more in tax revenue overall, if that came in return for a real overhaul of the tax code that would generate more economic growth.
But they are all here today because somewhere along the line, they decided they could no longer accept the world as it is.
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The manager has stated that he is not under pressure to sell players in January, but fears remain that they could be tempted to accept offers for some of their top performers.
K. Prahalad and other management gurus trumpet examples like Aravind, but do the rich countries accept that they could learn from India?
Though the employers reject an across-the-board reduction of the retirement age to 60, they accept that there could be different arrangements in different industries.
And this President and Democrats have been clearly willing to compromise, to accept that they could not get Republican support for what we believe and they believe was the right thing to do, which was ask the 300, 000 wealthiest Americans, millionaires and billionaires all, to pay a little bit more so that 160 million Americans got a tax cut.
This change proved more than his elite social and financial circle could accept, and they ostracized him for it.
Employers' representatives say some small businesses could collapse if they have to accept a 50% rise (or more) in their wages bill.
You know, we have a Clinton aid, telling us today that she was offered the job when in fact, Obama aids are saying that it wasn't an informal offer, that they've said that she would probably be offered it if she could passed the vet and they expect her to accept it.
More than 2, 000 staff at West Midlands Fire Service (WMFS) could lose their jobs unless they accept new working conditions, a union has claimed.
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This leaves many questions: Can politicians like Brown look out for the public interest if they accept campaign cash from companies that could harm the public?
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The idea that some of the very people who drove our economy into the ground could accept bonuses with one hand while they're taking taxpayer money with the other goes against our most basic sense of what's fair and what's right.
Postmen who accept traditional Christmas tips have been warned they could face bribery charges.
The FEC ruled unanimously in March 2007 that presidential candidates could accept general election public financing, provided that they return any money raised for the general election while following certain guidelines.
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Moreover, since the Obamacare plans are likely to pay providers less than rates offered by standard private coverage (and maybe even less than Medicare rates) many of the most efficient doctors could simply refuse to accept Obamacare, just like they refuse Medicaid.
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But it could take decades, before people finally accept that everything they believed to be eternally true was merely a temporary set of measures that worked for a limited period of time in a particular social and economic context.
Macmillan Cancer Relief Chief Executive Peter Cardy said the government needed to accept the recommendations to ensure patients received better information so they could make informed decisions about their treatment and care.
For example, although some, notably France's President Jacques Chirac, remain deeply sceptical about Mr Bush's plans for new missile defences, believing they could diminish Europe's security rather than enhance it, all now accept that a bust-up within the alliance over the issue would do even greater harm all round.
Flights could resume by April if US authorities accept the proposed plan, they said.
So at the recent summit they muscled Germany and other northern countries to accept that the eurozone's main rescue fund could help directly troubled banks without going via national governments and so increasing their debts.
They accept that seriously ill animals should be slaughtered on humane grounds, but believe that vaccination could have spared many more.
My instinct is that Greeks reluctantly will agree to the new measures because they see no alternative - but it could be that the people decide the future for themselves by refusing to accept any further cuts.
Rather, they could only use a state-issued debit card at special terminals in certain businesses that are set up to accept the card.
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They say some of the loopholes could be closed - for example, the fact that Indian courts still don't accept confessions by a person in custody.
But if players could be persuaded to accept Dr Fefferman's watchful eye (and many might welcome the idea that they were helping medical science), other research suggests that the results could be realistic.
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