Sentence examples for acceptable state from inspiring English sources

Which is a perfectly acceptable state of affairs.

Occupying territory, except in the course of war, is not an acceptable state of affairs.

I became the black sheep when I went to a perfectly acceptable state school in New England.

"Then, after the battery reaches the minimum acceptable state of charge, the Volt's gasoline engine starts and this car continues in what we call its charge-sustaining mode".

Which is a perfectly acceptable state of affairs.' So is 2014 the year that we break free from perfectionism and stop constantly trying to be superwoman?

Kenneth Branagh has described how playing the angst-ridden eponymous hero in TV series Wallander put him in a "permanent, acceptable state of anxiety".

But when the practitioners at the teacher end of it are handed the information after it has been rendered near meaningless by a series of sieves over many years, and that information is presented to us as yet another top-down dictate that the acceptable, state-approved version of teaching has altered slightly, then that day looks a long way off.

The current pope has made it abundantly clear that, for the church, virginity or motherhood are still the only acceptable states of female existence.

So the best solution to everyone's problems, naturally, was to funnel in a couple million dollars in UN funds in 2010 to build an internationally acceptable, state-of-the-art prison in Hargeisa to handle pirates and other high-profile criminals like members of the al Shabaab/al Qaeda terror affiliate.

State leaders cringed last fall when Jack Welch, the former chairman of General Electric, said on Fox News that Rhode Island's tax structure made it "the 48th-most-acceptable state for business".

The change contemplated by House Republicans would make the work requirements in the president's plan less onerous for states and so more acceptable to state officials.