Sentence examples for was still acceptable from inspiring English sources

Both experienced 1950s childhoods when butterfly collecting was still acceptable, and both write fondly of the early adventures with a net which sparked their Lepidoptera-love.

Atlanta is far more politically correct than it used to be; ten years ago it was still acceptable to hold business lunches at strip clubs.

Although the conductivity in AZO/Ag Ti/AZO films was decreased with increasing Ag Ti thickness, the resistivity of 4.95 × 10− 4 Ω-cm in AZO70 nm/Ag–Ti10 nm/AZO70 nm was still acceptable.

Despite a sharp fall of anthocyanins content during first year (decrease even by 80%), colour intensity of red wines did not suffer greater changes (decrease by 10%) and it was still acceptable after four years of storage.

I grew up in the 60s and 70s, where it was still acceptable to say, 'Well, you're not academic, so that's fine, you'll do it some other way.' Nowadays it's like everybody's got to be academic.

Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, she said: "If you think about what happened in the debate about domestic violence 20, 30 years ago, it was still acceptable to make a joke about slapping your wife.

For young children, there are no well-defined or accepted quality criteria for the amount of motion artifacts which are still acceptable [ 8, 15].

Yet the whale acts are still acceptable.

Somehow, Redskins is still acceptable in our culture.

If the taxi is R$13.75, paying R$14 is the norm but R$15 is still acceptable.

It's still acceptable in Europe on other devices, including mobile phones and games consoles.