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Tue 3 Jun, 2008 05:20 pm
quotation 1
Quote:But when "sticks" and "carrots" failed to prevent India and Pakistan from acquiring nuclear weapons, the United States rapidly accommodated both, preferring good relations with them to hostile ones.
quotation 2
Quote:A successful approach to Iran has to accommodate its security interests and ours.
quotation 3
Quote:Such a broader and more flexible approach would increase the prospects of an international arrangement being devised to accommodate Iran's desire for an autonomous nuclear energy program while minimizing the possibility that it could be rapidly transformed into a nuclear weapons program.
quotation 4
Quote:An eventual American-Iranian accommodation would significantly increase the flow of Iranian energy to the world
market.
Is accommodate or accommodation used in the same sense in all these 4 quotations?
No. Subtle differences
quotation 1
the United States rapidly accommodated both, preferring good relations with them to hostile ones.
(verb) adapt oneself; become adjusted
quotation 2
A successful approach to Iran has to accommodate its security interests and ours.
(verb) allow for
quotation 3
Such a broader and more flexible approach would increase the prospects of an international arrangement being devised to accommodate Iran's desire for an autonomous nuclear energy program while minimizing the possibility that it could be rapidly transformed into a nuclear weapons program.
(verb) allow for
quotation 4
An eventual American-Iranian accommodation would significantly increase the flow of Iranian energy to the world
market.
(noun) Reconciliation or settlement of opposing views.
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