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The phrase "acceptable grounds" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in legal or formal contexts to refer to valid reasons or justifications for a particular action or decision.
Example: "The court found that there were acceptable grounds for the appeal, allowing the case to proceed."
Alternatives: "valid reasons" or "justifiable basis".
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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.
"I don't believe a sit-down protest at a government office is acceptable grounds for the wholesale violation of the human right to privacy".
Or, "What are the acceptable grounds for remarriage after divorce (or annulment)?" Are they extremely limited, according to the traditional consensus that held until the divorce rates shot up after World War 2, or are they more accommodating as virtually every major tradition, including conservative ones, now claims?
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He also questioned what "credible and acceptable" ground forces could hold territory freed from Isis 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.
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.
"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.
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