Sentence examples for could become acceptable from inspiring English sources

"Westchester's submission was not a plan that could become acceptable with a few tweaks," Mr. Gurian said.

BE A HAGGLER This is the year haggling at the cash register could become acceptable, as offline retailers try to keep shoppers offline.

Gill is never more scathing than when describing the reappraisal of the musical by Cambridge graduates, "as if the form needed to be made respectable by them and that the musical was hitherto without a proper imprimatur, and that Porter and Coward and Jerome Kern and the rest had been waiting for the patronage of Dr Leavis before they could become acceptable".

In the context of rapidly growing internet penetration rates (in Scotland: 62.7% in 2007 and 77.4% in 2012; [ 12]), it is possible that an additional response option could become more acceptable and in this way increase questionnaire response rates.

But the McReynolds forecast could come true if defaults become acceptable in pursuit of partisan political advantage.

Words that could have landed their speakers in jail five months ago have suddenly become acceptable.

Failure has become acceptable.

Now they've become acceptable.

How have these become acceptable?

"But the Conservative Party has become acceptable.

How has this great thievery become acceptable?