"They would not accept such extreme measures."

"We do not accept the emergency, press restrictions and other repressive measures," she said.

Nor, he said, would he accept halfway measures which failed to change the direction that has made our nation so vulnerable to foreign economic interests.

Ferenc Gyurcsány ran out of political capital in March 2009 to accept necessary measures.

And in these very difficult circumstances, people took - were willing to accept decisive measures but not any kind of measure.

We do not accept measures proposed in the report that may make it easier to use certain drugs.

However, we do not accept measures which might be a pretext for the criminalisation of political activity.

We must therefore avoid creating a precedent of accepting antisocial measures.

It is therefore very difficult to persuade the Member States to accept satisfactory measures.

Are we capable of voluntarily accepting less than ideal measures in the near term to avoid far worse problems in the long term?