But some lawmakers who attended the briefing later insisted that any departure from building the coal-fired, 275-megawatt prototype power plant anywhere other than the central Illinois town of Mattoon would be unacceptable — and grounds for a possibly nasty Congressional fight.
But increasing energy use in developing countries to match that of industrialized nations would be unacceptable on ecological grounds.
But Anglo dismissed the idea as "totally unacceptable" on the grounds that Xstrata's mines are not in the same league as its own low-cost, long-life assets.
While events on the Paris Métro last month were a jolting reminder that base racism festers in football and society, overt chanting has mercifully become largely socially unacceptable within football grounds within the past two decades.
David Cameron is to be warned by the European commission that a central demand in his renegotiation of Britain's EU membership terms is likely to be rejected as unacceptable on the grounds that it risks infringing the founding principle of the EU on the free movement of people.
This preliminary account must be complicated, however, as it is unacceptable on three grounds.
This sort of inconsistency in human nature was – on religious, rational, prudential, and it seems aesthetic grounds – unacceptable to Pufendorf.
For many, the ghastly specter of Spencerism, construed as an inevitable consequence of evolutionary principles, is unacceptable on religious grounds (Ellegård 1958/1990, 321 29, and below).
Suppose one regards the notion of non-conceptual intentionality or content as unacceptable on the grounds that all content is conceptual.
Some logicians have argued that the notion of true future is unacceptable on philosophical grounds or that it is at least unnecessary, since it is possible to establish a semantic model accepting (P5) but rejecting (P3) without involving any idea of a true future.
