But a 12 percent cut would surely be acceptable to them, because that would leave the owners and the players at a 50-50 split of revenue — exactly what the N.F.L. and the N.B.A. owners wrested from their players after lockouts in 2011.
Surely a chairman acceptable to all could have been found and quietly vetted without a nasty fight?
If they can't do the work at a price Amazon finds acceptable, surely the world's largest online retailer could find someone who will.
Nonetheless, it is surely no longer acceptable for licensed medical practitioners to continue to administer and profit from potentially unsafe and unproven treatments, based on belief and not scientific rationale.
Slowly but surely, it's become acceptable for adults to read books that are supposed to be for teenagers.
A perfectly normal comment to make were it not for the fact it is a measly one minute past the hour we agreed to meet – surely within anybody's acceptable margin of error.
To deny this mother in the circumstances of this case the right to speak out – and, I emphasise, to speak out, if this is her wish, using her own name and displaying her own image – would be affront not merely to the law but also, surely, to any remotely acceptable concept of human dignity and, indeed, humanity itself".
But wouldn't earth-penetrating weapons with much lower yields (under five kilotonnes) be even better, since their lower yield would surely make them politically more acceptable to use?A dangerous detourLow yield is not no yield.
Surely it's no longer acceptable to have a Mexican character in a luchador mask whose onscreen appearances are announced by a strum of flamenco guitar.It would be tempting to call "Planes" the worst ever Pixar cartoon by a country mile, except that it isn't officially a Pixar cartoon.
