Sentence examples for least unacceptable from inspiring English sources

"The ceremony was, to say the least, unacceptable," Athens Mayor Dimitris Avramopoulos said Thursday.

For many, Barclays chief executive John Varley is the acceptable - or the least unacceptable - face of British banking.

But, for all that, China's concessions in recent months have been as striking as its threats.First, China chose the least unacceptable of the five candidates aspiring to be Hong Kong's first chief executive.

But his bid to improve it with the revamped qualifying was accepted only as a compromise as the least unacceptable of the formats he proposed and one that has exposed the sport to ridicule.

The relinquishing side should—so the UN suggests be entitled to cast a certain (albeit small) proportion of the total vote for the new president, which would give it a chance of tilting the result towards the candidate it thought least unacceptable.All this will test to the limit both leaders' flexibility.

The result is that the "least unacceptable" candidate gets the job.

These patients received significantly less morphine than patients with all ICDSC scores <4 (mean dose 23 ± 8 mg/day vs. 29 ± 13 mg/day, P < 0.01), without difference in pain scores between the groups (mean NRS 1.3 vs. 1.4, P < 0.3 and 34% vs. 28%, P < 0.51 experienced at least one unacceptable pain score).

Thus, it is not absolutely clear that monetary and fiscal policies will in all cases suffice to cure an external deficit, at least without socially unacceptable results.

For that reason, over-generation is limited by rule r6, which discards all NP permutations (in both subject and object position) whose determiner is immediately followed by a preposition (and which are, at least in Portuguese, unacceptable).

This would provide at least some safeguard against unacceptable change.

At some point in the early 1990s, it became socially unacceptable — at least for many people — to not have an e-mail address.