Sentence examples for are acceptable only from inspiring English sources

The plan, and other policy statements, stress that towers are acceptable only if they "are well-designed and in the right place".

From an investor's viewpoint, green costs are acceptable only if the whole sector incurs them, whether voluntarily or to meet government regulation.

In part, it's not an easy task for universities – their myriad courses will, of course, have different requirements and most don't rule out particular A-levels, but say some are acceptable only in certain combinations.

Watson is also on the money in his views about patenting genes and genetically modified organisms: such patents are acceptable only if they do not commercially strangle scientific progress.

As new drugs have been designed to manage disorders that are uncommon, but of significant consequence, they may have adverse effects that are acceptable only because they are so uniquely beneficial to these specific conditions.

In a similar way he proposes that social and economic inequalities are acceptable only if attached to positions that are open to all under FEO, but allows that inequalities of opportunity ruled out by FEO can yet be acceptable provided they "enhance the opportunities of those with lesser opportunity" (Rawls 1999: 266).

It would be a sad conclusion that transvestism is acceptable only when taken seriously.

The realists left us with the notion that "fantasy" is acceptable only when presented as about, or for, children.

"I'm not sure" is acceptable only when followed, coyly, with "You'll have to convince me".

Nor were they sovereign, but sovereignty of the people was acceptable only if the people were just and rational.

But he stressed that this would be acceptable only if a transparent way were to be agreed of linking each gift to each individual donor.