Jones responds by coming to her house later that evening and accepting personally.

"I am personally accepting responsibility for the state," he said.

"Our church's doctrine, which I personally accept and uphold, is very clear," the Archbishop said in a statement.

Einstein's attempt to explain their failure resulted in incorrect assumptions about the nature of space (although Einstein personally accepted its reality).

There's so much oxygen available to our press, sometimes you feel that they get somehow inflated by it and things happen that I cannot personally accept.

But he said conferring historic status on every structure in Cape May "is a little hard for me to accept personally."

"He always makes a point of personally accepting his students' theses," she explained.

Timofeev-Resovskij was not allowed to personally accept the honors bestowed upon him after 1945.

Furthermore, the winner must "agree to personally accept the award at the following Annual Conference", about five months after the selection.

"I won't personally accept them asking me because then we'll have another issue."