The phrase "acceptable to point" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to express that something is permissible to indicate or mention, but the phrasing is awkward and unclear.
Example: "It is acceptable to point out the errors in the report during the meeting."
Alternatives: "permissible to indicate" or "allowed to mention".
Mr Mandelson said: "It isn't acceptable to keep pointing the finger at one newspaper when clearly the use of unlawful means of investigating was, or is, widespread.
Conventions are always full of cheap applause lines and over-the-top attacks, but it was startling to hear how many speakers in Tampa considered it acceptable to make points that had no basis in reality.
But a peculiar aspect of the whole enterprise is that in Britain, where people love to talk about women and their lack of clothing, it appears to be perfectly acceptable to discuss this point.
Italics are acceptable, though not essential point-to-point pointe (ballet); on pointe, not on point or en pointe Pokémon singular and plural Polari A form of language used mostly by gay men and lesbians, derived in part from slang used by sailors, actors and prostitutes and popularised in the 1960s BBC radio comedy Round the Horne by the characters Julian and Sandy.
The conception of legitimacy that he advocates "requires that the procedure can be held, in terms acceptable to all qualified points of view, to be epistemically the best (or close to it) among those that are better than random" (Estlund 2008: 98).
For example, it is classically taught that it is acceptable to needle abdominal points above the umbilicus (eg, CV12) up to 12 weeks, but not thereafter.
An IDF spokesman says it is "highly acceptable" for soldiers to point out problems and pitch ideas to superiors.
Nor is reference of the sort Lewis makes to a physics "not too different from present-day physics" acceptable: in general, to point to the properties recognized by present-day physics and say only that physical properties are "relevantly like those" is, however popular a strategy, nothing more than an abdication of philosophical responsibility.
The breathtaking solipsism of this thinking, wherein these doubtless well-meaning, loyal friends imagine that it will be perfectly acceptable to make this highest point in Britain henceforth all about their friend, is sadly not a unique piece of self-absorption.
