Sentence examples for an acceptable state from inspiring English sources

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

The minimal clinically important difference (MCID) and the patient acceptable symptom state (PASS) are cutoffs dichotomizing continuous values into variables such as improved or not improved (MCID), or in an acceptable state or not in an acceptable state (PASS), allowing to report the success rate (proportion of patients improved or in an accesptable state) in trial arms.

Although so far the Silicon Valley solutions have been better, easier and more accessible, they are too opaque, centralised and unregulated for us to think this is an acceptable state of affairs.

This means that when the MoD hands back unused houses to Annington, they have to pay "dilapidations" to ensure properties are in an acceptable state for Annington to sell them.

Stupid rent control laws deterred property maintenance and in 2005 Porto Vivo, a revival initiative, found that only four per cent of the centre's old properties were in an acceptable state and fully half in serious disrepair.

As a general rule, most of them presented an acceptable state of conservation, without any of the known degradation phenomena of more ancient stained glasses (e.g. Medieval, Renaissance, etc).

Which is a perfectly acceptable state of affairs.

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

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".

Among the elite canape party photos and etiquette guide reviews, the latest edition of the posh people's periodical contains a depressing sign of the times - a list of acceptable state schools.