Sentence examples for acceptable context from inspiring English sources

Why should singer-songwriters assume the role of God, decreeing what is an acceptable context in which to hear their tunes?

Either we ban breastfeeding in public, in order to absolutely guarantee that the female nipple will only be displayed in its socially acceptable context – on page 3 of the tabloids.

But the C.I.A. had a more limited understanding of what the law allowed: "They believed that the only acceptable context for killing bin Laden was a credible capture operation," he said.

The speech was clearly aimed at putting troubled Iraq into a more acceptable context for a domestic audience alarmed by the mounting attacks and the now daily troop deaths there.

The report added: "This cannot be an acceptable context for our children".

Humor is  an "acceptable" context for women to complain (without getting labeled as a nasty wench).

Lyerly and colleagues found that risk perception affects medical decision-making in pregnancy, pointing out that the tendency for health care professionals has been to "pursue zero risk to the fetus, independent of the absolute size of the risk, of competing considerations, or of recognition that fetal risk exists in other acceptable contexts" [ 49] (p. 981).

Viewers do make a distinction between what is acceptable in context and that which is considered gratuitous.

However at the same time most of the men's heavy drinking and zapois began in the workplace or with male colleagues, supporting previous research which suggested that the workplace is a very common, acceptable drinking context in Russia, much more so than in other countries [ 35].

This is less and less acceptable in a context when we have the means in every way to prevent that.

But their challenge was dismissed, the judges agreeing that the roles were acceptable within the context of the island's history.