The phrase "acceptable ground" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a basis or justification that is considered reasonable or permissible in a particular context.
Example: "The committee found that the reasons provided were not acceptable ground for the appeal."
Alternatives: "valid basis" or "reasonable grounds".
He also questioned what "credible and acceptable" ground forces could hold territory freed from Isis by an intensified air campaign.
Nor has he been able to explain what credible and acceptable ground forces could retake and hold territory freed from Isis control by an intensified air campaign.
So Clough, who never really found the acceptable ground between supreme confidence and smug arrogance, strikes back with the only weapon at his disposal: his gob.
"Everyone is thinking not only about backup power and emergency lighting," he said, "but also the whole idea of what, exactly, is an acceptable ground level".
A method is proposed that uses an acceptable ground surface settlement profile to generate a tunnel system configuration that reproduces the acceptable/tolerable settlement profile.
Contact your local mediation service to explore whether mediation can bring you and your landlord together to set some mutually acceptable ground rules for guests in your apartment and avoid a costly legal dispute for both sides.
In the last few decades, the politically acceptable grounds for blocking mergers have narrowed considerably.
She would feel "too ashamed".Until recently physical abuse was not even acceptable grounds for divorce in China.
The city listed a few acceptable grounds for granting a permit having a job that involved carrying large amounts of cash, for example—but it also stated, "Simply fearing for one's personal safety alone is not considered good cause".
The Supreme Court has gradually narrowed the acceptable grounds for affirmative action since 1978, when it found, in the Bakke case, that racial quotas could not be used in university admissions.
Allowing fat to become the last socially acceptable grounds for discrimination – and all too often a sly backhand way of having a crack at the poor, since the two are increasingly lumped together in the public and political imagination – would be not just cruel but counterproductive.
