Pew has asked since the mid-1980s whether people think it's acceptable for members of different races to marry, and the increase in acceptance has been significant.
These are now things that, increasingly, it is becoming perfectly acceptable for members of mainstream political parties to suggest, as genuine policy proposals, in our actual public discourse.
"It is no longer acceptable for members of our Party to say that the President of the United States was born in Kenya," wrote Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-Ohio) in a memo sent to all GOP House members entitled The Official Republican Niceness Pledge.
France's prime minister, Lionel Jospin, corroborated those fears in Paris last week, saying, "It is not acceptable for certain member-states to practice unfair tax competition".
In this round, panel members were informed that the expert group had attempted to produce a version which might be acceptable for all panel members.
It is no longer acceptable for uncompensated board members to be paid quietly on the side.
When did it become acceptable for friends, family members, acquaintances and quasi-acquaintances to barrage us with mass e-mails?
Plain good manner need to be observed, eg, it is not acceptable for your family members to interfere in your private affairs, attempt to run your life (as they see fit) tell you who you may be friends with, or help themselves to your things without asking.
The absence of formal rules by which to distinguish between members and outsiders, to identify leaders, to establish the aims of the collectivity, to set acceptable limits of behaviour for members, and to specify how collective decisions are to be made accounts for the volatility of collective behaviour.
"It is not acceptable for the GEN board members to be assimilated in a club of rich countries, and the board reflects this approach with members from Nigeria, Morocco, Peru, and Argentina," he explained.
In a 2013 CBS News/NYT poll, 80% of the country agreed it was not acceptable for a President or members of Congress to threaten a government shutdown during budget negotiations; an update of this poll in 2015 that mentioned only Congress found nearly identical results.
