31.   If the jury accepts that argument, Alas might be found guilty of voluntary manslaughter instead of murder.

32.   If the California court accepts its argument, the Auto Body Parts Association says it plans to try to undo the Illinois ruling in other states.

33.   In August an appeals judge accepted this argument and ordered that Hernandez Galicia be freed.

34.   In its Supreme Court appeal, the administration said it had changed its mind, and now accepted the argument that courts may review land agreements in some circumstances.

35.   Judge Yelena Prokhorcheva has refused to accept such arguments, saying that members of many faiths believe theirs to be the only true one.

36.   Jackson did not accept that argument.

37.   Leo Strine, a vice chancellor in Delaware Chancery Court, accepted that argument, and ordered the trial to resume.

38.   Logically, those who accept the argument might be expected to be inclined to stick with companies that derive profits primarily in the United States, rather than overseas.

39.   Medicare officials did not say why they believed Friedman would accept that argument now after rejecting it in September.

40.   On Tuesday the Supreme Court accepted that argument.