Because it may take months, or even years, for criminal cases to come to trial in some jurisdictions, an innocent defendant who is offered a plea bargain that includes a sentence of less time than he would otherwise spend in jail awaiting a trial may choose to accept the plea arrangement and plead guilty.

He was forced to accept an amendment which ensured that the prisoner had to have spent at least three months in jail first.

De Valera, who had strongly supported the Republican side in the Civil War, reconsidered his views while in jail, and came to accept the ideas of political activity under the terms of the Free State constitution.

Hitchen would accept bribes to let thieves out of jail, selectively arrest criminals, and coerce sexual services from molly houses.

Before his sentencing, Brady had stated that " no one is above the law " and he would accept " every consequence " of his actions, even if that meant a jail sentence.

Most were from the tri-state ( Connecticut, New Jersey and New York ) area and agreed to accept the experiment in lieu of jail time and / or probation / public service.

Exiled after he refused to accept his brother Hisham's accession to the throne.

Menon revealed that the Khan of Kalat was pressing India to accept Kalat's accession, but added that India would have nothing to do with it.

This was rejected by the Khan of Kalat who, upset by the claim, issued a communiqué: " On the night of March 27, All India Radio, Delhi announced that two months ago Kalat State had approached the Indian Union to accept its accession to India and that the Indian Union had rejected the request … It had never been my intention to accede to India … It is, therefore, declared that from 9 pm on March 27th – the time when I heard the false news over the air, I forthwith decide to accede to Pakistan, and that whatever differences now exist between Kalat and Pakistan be placed in writing before Mr Jinnah, the Governor-General of Pakistan, whose decision I shall accept ".

The French Government, undoubtedly recalling Gloucester's effective disowning of the Picquingy Treaty and refusal to accept a French pension, would not have welcomed this accession of one known to be unfriendly to France.

Hamilton, being a descendant through his mother of the Scottish House of Stewart ( prior to their accession to the English throne ) was the senior-most claimant to the throne of Scotland in the event of that Scotland chose not to accept Sophia of the Palatinate as the Stuart heiress ( see Act of Security 1704 ).

On December 23, 1946, General Aung San, president of the AFPLF, visited Loikaw and delivered a political speech to induce the Karenni people to accept the accession of the Karenni States into the proposed Union of Burma.

In April 1947 a meeting was held at which Karenni leaders decided not to accept the accession of Karenni States into Burma.

Italy was quick to recognise Slovenian independence, and accept the accession of the new Slovenia to treaties concluded with Yugoslavia.

The accession of Jovian, who was orthodox, induced the versatile Acacius, with Meletius of Antioch and twenty-five bishops, to accept the Nicene formula, adding an explanation that the Nicene Fathers meant by homoousios merely homoios kat ousian-thus Acacius had taken up the original formula of the Semiarians.

A pagan on his accession, Sigeberht was urged by Oswiu to renounce his beliefs and accept Christianity.

This decision by the court to accept Smeaton's evidence is widely cited as the root of modern rules on expert evidence.

These approaches include the notion that individuals in a society accept rules from legitimate authority in exchange for security and economic advantage ( as in Rawls ) – a social contract.

Under the rules of the Conservative movement, the adoption of multiple opinions permits individual Conservative rabbis, congregations, and rabbinical schools to select which opinion to accept, and hence to choose individually whether to maintain a traditional prohibition on homosexual conduct, or to permit gay unions and clergy.

Most major religions accept the primacy of the rules of secular, democratic society but may still seek to influence political decisions or achieve specific privileges or influence through church-state agreements such as a concordat.

Act utilitarians, on the other hand, do not accept human rights as moral principles in and of themselves, but that does not mean that they reject them altogether: first, most act utilitarians, as explained above, would agree that acts such as enslavement and genocide always cause great unhappiness and very little happiness ; second, human rights could be considered rules of thumb so that, although torture might be acceptable under some circumstances, as a rule it is immoral ; and, finally, act utilitarians often support human rights in a legal sense because utilitarians support laws that cause more good than harm.

It does not accept the prevalence of two rigidly defined genders " Female and Male " and believes in freedom to choose any kind of gender with no rules, no defined boundaries and no fulfilling of expectations associated with any particular gender.

In deductivism, the Pythagorean theorem is not an absolute truth, but a relative one: if you assign meaning to the strings in such a way that the rules of the game become true ( i. e., true statements are assigned to the axioms and the rules of inference are truth-preserving ), then you have to accept the theorem, or, rather, the interpretation you have given it must be a true statement.

Developing countries ( democratic or not ) have been moved to harden their currencies, accept International Monetary Fund rules, join the World Trade Organization ( WTO ), and submit to a broad regime of reforms that amount to a hedge against being isolated.

Under the FEC rules, leadership PACs are non-connected PACs, and can accept donations from individuals and other PACs.

His primary rules were: never allow the public to cool off ; never admit a fault or wrong ; never concede that there may be some good in your enemy ; never leave room for alternatives ; never accept blame ; concentrate on one enemy at a time and blame him for everything that goes wrong ; people will believe a big lie sooner than a little one ; and if you repeat it frequently enough people will sooner or later believe it.

These rules can be successful if people accept them, and work with them.

Social contract arguments assert that individuals unite into political societies by a process of mutual consent, agreeing to abide by common rules and accept corresponding duties to protect themselves and one another from violence and other kinds of harm.

Because the CCPC rules require a minimum of 50 % Canadian ownership in the company performing R & D, foreign investors who would like to benefit from the larger 35 % tax credit must accept minority position in the company, which might not be desirable.

As much as morality, games consist of norms ( or rules ), but it would be hard to accept that it be not true that the chessplayer who checkmates the other one wins the game.

Skeptics assert that rather than perfect goodness, it would be only the appearance of perfect goodness, reinforced by persuasion technology and probably brute force of violent technological escalation, which would cause people to accept such rulers or rules authored by them.

French-speaking universities have varying sets of rules ; some will accept students with little knowledge of French if they can communicate with their supervisors ( usually in English ).

Buddhist laypeople take refuge in the Triple Gem ( the Buddha, his teaching, and his community of noble disciples ) and accept the Five Precepts ( or the Eight Precepts ) as rules for conduct.

However all 1080 backbone node owners are obliged to accept responsibility for the smooth running of their node, follow the basic rules of the community and follow basic network neutrality rules.

In a direct challenge to the actions of the Bush administration, French president Jacques Chirac directly challenged the way of unilateralism: " In an open world, no one can live in isolation, no one can act alone in the name of all, and no one can accept the anarchy of a society without rules.

SDMI did not accept that Felten had successfully broken the watermark according to the rules of the contest, noting that there was a requirement for files to lose no sound quality.

Rich picked up these arguments in an influential article in which he contended that Indians had “ a persistent reluctance to accept European notions or the basic values of the European approach ” and that “ English economic rules did not apply to the Indian trade .” Indians were savvy traders, but they had a fundamentally different conception of property, which confounded their European trade partners.

* 25 April – The National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission in a landmark judgement rules that hospitals are duty bound to accept accident victims, that patients in critical condition and that doctors cannot first demand fees before agreeing to treat the patient and that a relative's consent is not necessary if there is no family member present at the time.

The point is that the reactionary, for whatever motive, perceives himself to have been part or a partner of something that extended beyond himself, something which, consequently, he was not able to accept or reject on the basis of subjective preference.

We find, in the first place, that the students overwhelmingly approve of higher education, positively evaluate the job their own institution is doing, do not accept most of the criticisms levelled against higher education in the public prints, and, on the whole, approve of the way their university deals with value-problems and value inculcation.

Everyone is more or less sceptical and virtually no one has been willing to accept Lappenberg or Kemble's position on that point.

Yet we who lean upon such a man and draw strength from him and expect interpretation of the infinite through him -- we who readily accept his sacrifice as our due, we of the congregations are the first to tell him what is in our minds instead of listening to what is in his soul.

It is, as one engineer says, `` indeed a difficult thing for the engineer to accept that he can go as far on his technical merit as he could employing managerial skills.

To accept the validity of the judgments of others is the second step.

The inclination here is to accept a de facto cease-fire in Laos, rather than continue to insist on a verification of the cease-fire by the international control commission before participating in the Geneva conference.

Furthermore, as an encouragement to revisionist thinking, it manifestly is fair to admit that any fraternity has a constitutional right to refuse to accept persons it dislikes.

To ask me to believe that so inexpressibly marvelous a book was written long after all the events by some admiring follower, and was not inspired directly by the Spirit of God, is asking me to accept a miracle far greater than any of those recorded in the Bible.

I do not accept that the choice is between capitulation and the certainty of nuclear war ''.

`` And do you think there is a reason why I should accept your word ''??

* The Afroasiatic identity of Ongota is also broadly questioned, as is its position within Afroasiatic among those who accept it, due to the " mixed " appearance of the language and a paucity of research and data.

The court is not required to accept a guilty plea.

Authorities, including the Prefect, M. Othon, are slow to accept that the situation is serious and quibble over the appropriate action to take.

Constantine is believed to have exiled those who refused to accept the Nicean creed — Arius himself, the deacon Euzoios, and the Libyan bishops Theonas of Marmarica and Secundus of Ptolemais — and also the bishops who signed the creed but refused to join in condemnation of Arius, Eusebius of Nicomedia and Theognis of Nicaea.

* Man has free will to respond or resist: Free will is limited by God's sovereignty, but God's sovereignty allows all men the choice to accept the Gospel of Jesus through faith, simultaneously allowing all men to resist.

* Election is conditional: Arminius defined election as " the decree of God by which, of Himself, from eternity, He decreed to justify in Christ, believers, and to accept them unto eternal life.

* Human free will is limited by original sin, though God's prevenient grace restores to humanity the ability to accept God's call of salvation.

* Nature of grace – Arminians believe that, through grace, God restores free will concerning salvation to all humanity, and each individual, therefore, is able either to accept the Gospel call through faith or resist it through unbelief.

The number of species is disputed, with some authorities accepting up to ten species, while others accept six or fewer.

Some Anglicans accept that anointing of the sick has a sacramental character and is therefore a channel of God's grace, seeing it as an " outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace " which is the definition of a sacrament.

It is impossible, indeed, to accept Aristotle's ( cf.