Sentence examples for acceptable rather than from inspiring English sources

"It's been a very busy weekend which will be crucial to delivering a Christmas that is acceptable, rather than exceptional".

The New York Times called it "emerging adulthood" (graduates moving back in with parents being acceptable rather than naff), while Simon Reynolds's book Retromania points the finger squarely at "reunion tours" and an obsession, piss-takey or otherwise, with our pasts.

"People should be free to look at all the sites the council has identified or any which they think are acceptable, rather than be limited to these three".

The description of Level 1 in our benchmarks is also labeled as 'not yet acceptable', rather than being worded more negatively, in the hope that those who are assessed will be encouraged to persevere in their efforts to attain a higher level of competence.

In its comment on the draft policy, the the International Society for Stem Cell Research asks NIH to define some "core principles" covering what is ethically acceptable rather than set explicit rules that might exclude "lines that have been in routine use for the past ten years".

If we speak of it, and speak in it, violence becomes acceptable rather than transgressive.

For the next six months Israel's goal will be to seek an acceptable deal, rather than scupper the process.

From Comercio Justo México to United Students for Fair Trade in the US there are attempts to redefine fair trade, raising acceptable standards rather than lowering them to make life easier for big business.

That proved to be money well spent; discovery of the concealed funds prompted the husband to agree to an acceptable settlement, rather than risk court testimony that would have interested the I.R.S. Fortunately, there is a no- or low-cost source of information for wives going through litigated divorces: their jointly filed tax returns.

Most of the real life problems definitely need an optimal and acceptable solution rather than calculating them precisely at the cost of degraded performance, time and space complexities.

As real-world problems face many different kinds of uncertainties (due to noise, quantization, interference, and modeling errors, for example), it makes more sense to search for an acceptable solution rather than trying to find a single/unique solution, as in point estimation theory.