11.   Defense attorney Robert Sheahen and defense co-counsel Bill Chais said Panah accepted the verdict stoically and sought solace in his Muslim faith.

12.   Goldwater, along with the rest of us, accepted that verdict.

13.   He believed in the gods and he would accept their verdicts, both for good and ill.

14.   He said he was surprised by the accusations of sexual misconduct made against McKinney but would probably accept the verdict if the sergeant major were convicted at a court-martial.

15.   If we cannot all accept the verdict, he opined, it will show that we are not one community but a collection of competing tribes.

16.   In retrospect, however, he looks pretty good compared with a couple of sore losers who are currently refusing to accept the verdict of the voters.

17.   Owners then must decide whether to accept the verdict, ask for a stay of execution or appeal to a higher court.

18.   President Nelson Mandela, who has a laudable history of embracing judicial decisions even when they go against him, immediately announced he would accept the verdict.

19.   The debate was Indian democracy at its best, and Vajpayee, to his credit, gracefully accepted the verdict.

20.   The Rev. Cecil Murray of the First A.M.E. Church in Los Angeles said that as long as the trial is fair, African-Americans will accept the verdict.