Sentence examples for acceptable acts from inspiring English sources

(I'm sure lots of the people who criticised Ostrovsky commit their own, more socially acceptable, acts of internet thievery – file sharing and the like. It's not the same, but it's not not the same).

The call, from Kofi Annan, United Nations secretary general, for a basic definition of terrorism provides a sound human rights framework to distinguish the acceptable acts of the freedom fighter or national liberation movement from acts of terrorism that can never be tolerated.

It's a depressing thought and the shortage of acceptable acts is staggering, but there are a few glimmering unknown stains showing up under the current affair black-light.

Still, the rightful satisfaction Americans should take from this wholly acceptable act of reprisal has been missing.

States obviously didn't like that, so they brought suit challenging the law and in 1999 a divided 5-4 SupruledCourt ruled in Florida Prepaid v. College Savings Bank that the 1992 statute was not an acceptable act under the 14th Amendment because there was not sufficient evidence states were violating patent holder's due process rights.

Some people feel it is against their religion, even though the Roman Catholic, Protestant and Jewish faiths consider organ donation an acceptable charitable act.

But it's also worth remembering that the defeat of the Confederacy involved exactly the defeat of the notion that the threat of insurrection was ever to be regarded as an acceptable political act.

But we've reached a tipping point where it's going to become less acceptable to act like it's no big deal.

The advent of the cellphone/text message/Blackberry has rendered socially-acceptable the act of being perpetually ten-minutes-late.

Democratic members said they were worried it would override existing biological opinions under the Endangered Species Act by allowing more water to be pumped out of the delta than biologists have said is acceptable under the act.

Economic divisions might actually be acceptable if they act as incentives to encourage people to work hard and if high rewards are justly earned by those with the skills and capacity to carry out the most difficult or demanding jobs.