1.   Previously, scientific evidence was allowed only if it had gained the general acceptance of the scientific community.

2.   Still, general acceptance was slow in coming.

3.   There was a general acceptance of the need for further and continuing training with greater emphasis on efficient production as opposed to increased production.

4.   There was a massive concentration of scientific effort in this area in the Decades immediately following the general acceptance of evolutionism.

5.   There was a general acceptance that the defence budget would shrink.

6.   I think there must be a general acceptance of the insurance.

7.   A much improved MessagePad is still around, but it has not met with general acceptance.

8.   But when he left office, Walling noted that the wage-hour provisions, born amid controversy, had won general acceptance.

9.   General acceptance of the Ice Age began only when Elisha Kent Kane returned from his ill-fated search for an open polar sea.

10.   In what might have been months of stupefyingly technical testimony, they were prepared to argue that DNA testing had yet to win general acceptance among scientists.