Sentence examples for more acceptable means from inspiring English sources

Many violent crime figures have evolved into semilegitimate businessmen who carry on their activities through somewhat more acceptable means.

The use of guard dogs is seen as a more acceptable means of defence, and of quietening the population fears than the guns of the Legitimate Defence Association, which claims the right to shoot suspected criminals on sight.

I played the backing tracks off of an iPod, which was becoming a more acceptable means of performance thanks to acts like Juiceboxxx, Hawnay Troof and Peaches.

Prevention strategies may offer a more acceptable means of addressing the problem.

Results indicated that increasing the proportion of alcohol consumers in the population (drinking moderately) would result in reduced CVD mortality; however, this is of little practical relevance given that there are safer and more socially acceptable means of reducing CVD risk, and there are a number of reasons why it would be imprudent to encourage current non-drinkers to start drinking.

These are people with schedules, people who are shift workers, and it speaks to the fact that Lyft and Uber are becoming more acceptable as a means for professional people to get around.

If their bosses don't allow them flexibility, they'll job hop — also more acceptable these days — and that means the company potentially loses out on young talent.

Bankruptcy in general has become more acceptable here, and new laws meant specifically to help life insurers to reorganize in a timely manner have taken effect.

While we typically envisage members of the right-wing as "tattooed, snarling, angry White male[s]," the report found there are others who seek to make the cause more acceptable to the public by "more subtle means, in a way that makes it more palatable, more acceptable to a public sensitized by a generation of discourse of equality, multiculturalism, and diversity".

When "moderates" talk about more "centrist" positions on financial reform, they mean positions that are more acceptable to the bankers that bundle together big financial contributions for Republican and Democrats alike.

Researchers and policymakers debate whether simply producing more animals of a dwindling species is an acceptable means of sustaining populations.