Sentence examples for once acceptable from inspiring English sources

Behaviour that was once acceptable can overnight come to be seen as outrageous.

"We'd pull at evidence from the dawn of photography to prove that child sexuality was once acceptable," John said.

White former students say some of the offensive images were once acceptable, but their black classmates recall racially divided times when their presence was invisible.

The vehicle's original dual electric horns, once acceptable for civilized traffic disagreements, had been battered into muffled toots over the years.

I would like to see a cultural change, like the cultural shift that took place with drunken driving, where a behavior that was once acceptable becomes unacceptable.

Whereas it was once acceptable to have a modest service and reception, toss the bouquet and some rice and then move on, today's brides ruminate over every detail: the color of the napkins and the color of the desserts.

There are numerous examples of once-acceptable practices that stakeholders no longer consider to be satisfactory or ethical.

In the age of the smartphone, there is no reason to ask once-acceptable questions: the weather forecast, a business phone number, a store's hours.

Even in a town where last year's average price of a single-family house was $1.1 million, many people are buying once-acceptable houses as teardowns, erecting custom-built mansions in their place.

As advertisers and marketers, they had both worked with the liquor industry, and they had seen how outside pressure — from Mothers Against Drunk Driving, for instance — could change the larger culture so that once-acceptable behaviors became unacceptable.

You will be able to level the playing field so that what was once only acceptable for men can also be acceptable for women.