Sentence examples for sound acceptable from inspiring English sources

While having an uncertified person diving through a tunnel at 45 feet with a dive master may sound acceptable to a nondiver, I know that it was potentially very dangerous.

"It's just illusory to think that presidents can provide a narrative that can make unemployment sound acceptable," said George C. Edwards, a professor of political science at Texas A & M University and author of "On Deaf Ears: The Limits of the Bully Pulpit".

In the Goethe poem on which Brahms's work is based, an embittered soul wanders the desert, eliciting a prayer for his redemption: "If there is on your psaltery, O father of Love, one sound acceptable to his ear, refresh his heart with it".

MP3s sound acceptable at lower volumes, but cat-scaringly awful when you pump up the jam.

While some of these sound acceptable, none of these tell you which bank is in which market place for the exact type of loan at any given time.

Raters are thus continuously challenged to sample performance data; interpret findings; identify and define assessment criteria; and translate private judgments into sound (acceptable) decisions.

An "old brown dog" sounds fine, a "little old brown dog" sounds acceptable, but a "mischievous little old brown dog" sounds plain wrong.

It might also increase the incentive for parties to appeal to the extremes rather than to the middle.To some, that sounds acceptable enough: a touch of extremism, after all, is just one of the prices we pay for democracy.

His lengthy voicemail greeting sounded acceptable through CallingAmerica — about as good as any other VoIP call I've made.

Sure it's not the most high quality speaker you can find, but it sounds acceptable considering it's stuck inside such a small device.

What the viewer was really objecting to was McCoy's refusal to stamp all traces of gayness out of his speech before going on the air, to "code-switch" and put on a blander, straighter-sounding voice in order to sound more acceptable.