Sentence examples for acceptable notion from inspiring English sources

For the first time in two days, the acceptable notion of my own death.

The Constitution, Levinson wrote, places "almost insurmountable barriers in the way of any acceptable notion of democracy".

Measuring the difference in shape, therefore, will give an acceptable notion of stability.

Popper eventually realized that this naive falsificationism is compatible with optimism provided we have an acceptable notion of verisimilitude (or truthlikeness).

"The practice, if documented, violates acceptable notions of decency, as well as legal and moral standards for patient health care," Mr. McGreevey said in an interview.

That encounter, says Dr. Kroft, who now lives in Baltimore and whose expertise is in philanthropic studies, occurred before "keyboarding" at a computer made acceptable the notion that brains and typing could go hand in hand.

He would have found acceptable the notion, since popular, that mind supervenes on body.

Although the assumption of biologically born criminals (Lombroso 2000/1878) has been less acceptable, the notion of criminal tendency from the sociological perspective has never disappeared (Birkbeck and Lafree 1993).

So acceptable is the notion of extra-judicial killings of gay men and women for their consensual private conduct that one of these countries, Uganda, is considering legislation making homosexuality (not the behavior, just being gay) punishable with death.

Both Simon LeVay and Dean Hamer accept the notion that men's sexual desires are more biologically fixed than women's, though they recognize that fluid female sexuality is more socially acceptable.

Tarski's aim in a series of works on semantical notions was precisely to propose mathematically acceptable definitions of those notions, and in particular acceptable in some one of the chief foundational systems (the system chosen by Tarski will change with time; see below).