Sentence examples for while acceptable from inspiring English sources

While acceptable, the pecan pie and chocolate mousse cake lacked the fresh-tasting zest of the rest of the meal.

While acceptable at that time, subsequent events certainly emphasize the urgent need for splitting auditing and certain additional consulting services such as those relating to information technology".

But company officials say that even this price, while acceptable now, is too low to enable BioPort to make the long-term investments it needs to survive.

This stand-alone use of "fraught" to mean "tense" or "uneasy," while acceptable, is becoming so common as to risk seeming shopworn.

Douglas's position, while acceptable to many Northern Democrats, angered the South and led to the division of the last remaining national political institution, the Democratic Party.

For the time being, while acceptable water can still be imported from Malaysia, NEWater is being sold largely to the semiconductor industry, which needs a cleaning fluid thousands of times purer than tap water.

"Half a jelly bean once in a while is acceptable for his diet," Pepperberg told me.

Doing so every once in a while is acceptable and bound to happen, especially as emergencies and unforeseen expenses come up.

But his is a time-honoured narrative strategy which, while more acceptable in the finer arts, always draws wrath down on popular directors.

It says: "The Work Programme, while delivering acceptable results for the mainstream job seekers, is letting down those furthest from the labour market.

But it suffers from erratic financial management, especially in the larger trusts, many of which are struggling to make savings while running acceptable services.