Sentence examples for merely acceptable from inspiring English sources

By that measure, your tactics are not merely legal, not merely acceptable, but admirable.

-- F.K., Washington This behavior is not merely acceptable; it is admirable.

Bashing him has become not merely acceptable but a popular sport.

Skip the typical satay, which is merely acceptable, and instead assemble a near-meal of snazzier appetizers.

With a setting like this, if the food were merely acceptable, the overall experience would be positive.

Several starters, like the melon salad, the beet salad, and the arugula-and-fennel salad, are merely acceptable preludes to Appleman's pizzas.

The "only acceptable strategy" for neoconservatives as early as the Clinton years influenced George W. Bush to invade Iraq, not merely "faulty intelligence".

ID cards are merely the acceptable face of the government's real goal: a national identity database designed to allow the state to observe and log almost everything we do.

It is often hard for the historian to judge, when men explain why they are doing what they want to do, whether they are offering real reasons or merely culturally acceptable reasons.

Van Gaal seems to think that it is acceptable merely to stay in a game – with the chance to nick a result – and, if not, take the draw.

He merely scored, not acceptable to the 18,728 at Gund Arena who came not necessarily to watch a high school all-star game, but to see the LeBron James Show.