The phrase "acceptable target" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are discussing goals, objectives, or benchmarks that are deemed suitable or permissible.
Example: "In our marketing strategy, we have identified an acceptable target for our customer acquisition efforts this quarter."
Alternatives: "suitable goal" or "permissible objective".
But they also learnt that to be disabled does not make you less than human, or an acceptable target for abuse.
Then came the bombing of Taliban front lines: a more acceptable target, but still one whose main result, to outsiders, seemed to be dust in the sky.
The son of a marquess, he is married to the daughter of a duke.Some of the genuine upper class claim that, alone among minorities, they remain a publicly acceptable target for wholesale derision.
He became the terror of London counterfeiters, sending a goodly number to the gallows and finding in them a socially acceptable target on which to vent the rage that continued to well up within him.
In a conspicuously hypocritical art world where some religions tend to be sacrosanct but Christianity has become an acceptable target, Mr. Acres has been booed out of an international conference of art historians where he had the windows of his chapel and a crucifix inside it smashed.
These tactics and rhetoric – the unrapeable sex worker, the acceptable target – can silence porn performers; as Leathers said, "The industry is so marginalised that people get fearful of talking about its problems, because we already feel so attacked in so many different ways".
As a result of the study, Islamic Jihad formally placed the United States on its list of acceptable targets.
First Israeli women and children became acceptable targets; then Americans; then Shiites; and now Sunnis of unstinting orthodoxy.
When using lethal force within a field of combat, the military's Rules of Engagement have historically defined two kinds of acceptable targets.
It was particularly apparent when Sarah Palin - admittedly not a difficult figure to ridicule - was herded into the News Quiz lineup of acceptable targets.
Calling on "lone mujahideen" the magazine carefully guides would-be bombers through a number of steps to create a bomb, evade security, and publicise their actions – before pointing possible recruits in the direction of acceptable targets.
