Sentence examples for things acceptable from inspiring English sources

It wasn't what was actually in the newspaper but what was supposedly in the thoughts of the person represented in the newspaper that made these things acceptable, unscandalous.

Not on the basis of being 'one rogue reporter' or 'one rogue editor', but what is it about the culture and practice of the organisation that makes these kind of things acceptable?

The design parameters determine, among other things, acceptable fragment lengths and the length of the ends of the selector probes.

"I don't expect that anyone normal and sane has heard of such a thing, [no] normal person who is not sectarian would find such a thing acceptable.

(Eric Cantor just went on the Sunday talk shows to reject any compromise, making clear that the only thing acceptable to Congressional Republicans is permanent extension of all of the Bush tax cuts including those for the top 2%, even if an impasse means a government shutdown, which he said would be Obama's fault.

A shame, yes, but in the grand scheme of things an acceptable loss.

There can be culture clashes when people think things are acceptable and I don't.

Stewart took issue with O'Reilly's determinations of what things are acceptable to be subsidised by the government.

Personal collections of things are acceptable depending on the industry in which you work and how you present them.

If only screening for big things is acceptable, someone has to decide what is big and what isn't.

That's well enough, so long as things remain acceptable; the difficulty comes when they're not.