Sentence examples for would only be acceptable from inspiring English sources

Your proposition would only be acceptable if Flanders becomes independent.

A buffer zone, as Turkey has suggested, would only be acceptable if the safety of refugees could be guaranteed, he said.

The FA had wanted to send representatives to a personal hearing but were advised that would only be acceptable for an appeal.

The 29WP notes that this practice "is based on no legal requirement under data protection rules", and further notes it "would only be acceptable if the information is presented in such a way that users cannot, in any case, conclude that one particular individual has asked for the removal of results concerning him or her".

Little did I know that I would become the victim" with a level of seriousness that would only be acceptable if she were a drive-by victim reporting on her own death.

"The library is reduced to conditions that would only be acceptable in the 19th century – that of a book depository and a lecture hall," said the librarians in a press release.

In how many other areas of business would it not only be acceptable for employees of a publically funded organisation to accept lavish hospitality (and I mean lavish - like eye-bogglingly expensive private dinners in amazing Venetian palazzos etc).

A man would only be an acceptable household head if there is no woman over the age of 18 in the family to assign the ration card to.

SIMON SCHAMA: Not a fabulously propitious time to be proposing that, Doc — given the Greek meltdown and the Eurozone being stuck with the bill… Nick Clegg, who is on record proposing this, had to make it very clear that it would only be on "acceptable terms" and put to a referendum — as well he might.

The counterman said only C.O.D. would be acceptable from the "Daily News," because Maxwell, the former owner of the paper, had died without paying the deli an $8,000 debt for sandwiches.

Only later would it be acceptable to name dolphins, elephants or primates in order to better track their "social careers" over many generations.