Use "acceptable" in a sentence

1. Under-performance over short periods of time, even a year is quite acceptable

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2. There was another faction who felt that it was acceptable to do daily business with the locals but retain their own culture with no more 'political boundary' than land ownership, and a third group who wanted to remain in voluntary association like the core of any other ethnic group, but not be required to join one contiguous territory

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3. She was a good place to start off if you hadn't lost your virginity yet and an acceptable place to finish off the night if no one else was willing

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4. This is exactly what the male-vampire offers the woman: A social position (as his wife or mistress) and an acceptable reason to leave (satisfy him sexually and have his children)

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5. This type of attitude was not acceptable to Jesus in the days of the Scribes and Pharisees, and it is not acceptable to the Lord today

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6. All my residents have suffered loss as a result of war – either tangible loss in the shape of careers thrown off course or emotional trauma caused by bereavement - and I can empathise with them … if for a different, and drastically less acceptable reason

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7. Nick has got some really excellent crackers with interesting trinkets inside them and reasonably acceptable jokes … for crackers

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8. In the thinking time afforded me by slow recovery it became clear that while the casual maltreatment of heathen prisoners might be acceptable as part of the day-to-day routine of hostage supervision, the loss of one of their precious bargaining chips before the cards have been dealt, was unthinkable

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9. Artificially inflating demand was not considered an acceptable business practice in this culture, and people did not patronize merchants who engaged in 'push' advertising

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10. She didn’t know enough about Earth culture to know if this would be acceptable socially or not

11. Useful enough that he let her be around, acceptable enough that he would give her a quickie when he had the time

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12. Not very acceptable behavior

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13. Is it acceptable for her to

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14. About the only women who's duty personifications were acceptable were Glenelle, Leslie and Ava

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15. I suppose decent bed linen is always acceptable

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16. procedure and know that ignorance is acceptable but easily improved upon if

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17. is definitely acceptable to have pride in yourself

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18. He told me that he took pride in staying on the outside of the acceptable norm for today’s Macho Male Types

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19. “Wow! That’s awesome and very acceptable

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20. I’d rather have my baby where the love, trust, and acceptance are implicit versus where I have to be so constantly reassured it’s okay, and I’m acceptable

21. to find out acceptable words, and that which was written blamelessly, words of truth

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22. No doubt there were some truly incorrect approaches which would yield no worthwhile results, but those which resolved the basic dilemmas of the propositions would probably be acceptable

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23. If that was acceptable, she could be content to live in this basin in the future

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24. more acceptable to me than

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25. This wasn't her favorite music, his either, but it was acceptable to both of them and didn't distract them too much from each other

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26. He was none too keen on that, took his cup, downed some of the water, poured the rest out, and set off up the lane in search of something acceptable to put in it

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27. There was nothing unpleasant about the contact, but it was only a bit more pleasant than contact with any other human being because it was socially acceptable

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28. That was acceptable at this

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29. If you have no dream and no plan about building a new house, you will remain trapped in the old one because, at the level of the mind, trading or buying is not an acceptable option

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30. You will acquire the capacity to reshape the negative aspects of your reality and make them acceptable and enriching at the same time

31. Surely even you must find that deliberately vague - nor would you find it acceptable if it concerned your father

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32. Mary and Joe were good people who were leading lives that were fully approved and wholly acceptable by the society in which they were enmeshed

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33. He especially liked to wallow in the water or mud with others of his kind since this kept his body temperature within an acceptable range and didn’t allow his fair and sensitive skin to dry out under the raging rays of the sun during the hottest months in his habitual habitat

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34. What he was about to tell her might not be an acceptable alternative, but he knew it was then or never

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35. Some cues from others are objective and obvious, clearly communicating their judgments of both acceptable and unacceptable behavior

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36. fostered was not acceptable in the

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37. C's reply was," That's acceptable provided your children become scriptwriters like yourselves too

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38. Lichman’s suit was still functioning within acceptable parameters

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39. By what seemed like some curious twist of fate (and not without a certain logic behind it) she’d be working with her old colleague Leonard Heigener – a prospect that up until a few months ago she would have have welcomed as more than just the acceptable option, in any context

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40. ‘A mere defensive strategy is no longer acceptable

41. And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written, The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the Gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, To preach the acceptable year of the Lord

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42. society felt this level was acceptable, otherwise it would have banned these robots a long time ago

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43. Although the Bible shows us what God sees as good and acceptable in his own eyes, especially in the Old Testament and in God’s dealings with Israel where He gave them his laws, it goes further to explain that nobody is able to keep his laws

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44. Instead, God knows that we are unable to keep his laws, but loves us with such passion, that he gave himself to us in the body of the Lord Jesus Christ, who lived a sinless life and died for our sins on the cross - paying our debt to God on our behalf - the only sacrifice that would be acceptable in God’s eyes

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45. La land with the baby was an acceptable way to live

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46. acceptable and profitable, and it was certainly the best option for that time of year

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47. In the warped mind-set that constitutes modern day liberalism, begging is now acceptable and encouraged behavior

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48. Nonsense concept, acceptable only by so-called liberal intellectuals

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49. It would appear that she cares for him beyond an acceptable level

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50. Status graphs; power input and reserve levels, and maximum data buffering told that the system was operating within acceptable parameters

51. After all, it would have been perfectly acceptable if she were in a swim suit and he had been applying sun lotion

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52. Acapulco was a little more formal, so there were occasions such as office parties where it was acceptable to wear long pants

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53. I lived in the Zona Rosa, then one of the most fashionable areas of the capital, and scarcely ever appeared on the street without wearing acceptable clothes

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54. Normality of course was an illusion, but he was made to believe that that illusion was totally acceptable – which still disturbed him

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55. 2 billion – which had originally been intended as a barely sentient artificial intelligence, ensuring the subroutines of the governor systems were operating within acceptable parameters – was not a role he at all relished

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56. “You know,” Amaranthe said after a moment of silence, “when someone asks you a question, the socially acceptable thing to do is answer

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57. A child requires appropriate developmental guidelines that reinforces an underlying awareness of what is right and wrong, what is acceptable behavior and what is not; that he or she will one day be accountable not only for themselves but to other people as well

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58. This system of rewards and punishment should not be arbitrary but applied in a consistent manner, rather, on the basis of acceptable standards of behavior

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59. The Freedom of Choice, within acceptable limits, is the cornerstone of a Free Society

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60. many males found it an acceptable life when al expenses are covered and some joy

61. without regard to any one individual or group of individuals are not rightly considered criminal unless such actions otherwise ignore existing international covenants (established among nations during times of peace), governing acceptable rules of military

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62. "That's a suggestion that I would find more acceptable

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63. Remember for a terrorist it is an honour to take as a many of the infidels with them as possible and if that means a suicide bomb for the cause then it is quite acceptable

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64. More importantly we did our laundry on Sunday afternoons so the culprit’s snoozing interfered with our laundry, which is not an acceptable behaviour between civilised men! Perhaps that had been the idea after all

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65. When I started this book I thought to write it in a more academically acceptable way but it soon turned out that my clients and others were not impressed with endless footnotes

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66. But more than that, she was angry that he’d kept this from her, had once again thought it perfectly acceptable to keep such an important part of his life hidden away

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67. Credit cards, Beth was told, were not acceptable

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68. Her heart ached with shame and despair when she saw what all countries everywhere viewed as acceptable treatment of those with opposing views

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69. “But, since the miracle has happened anyway, and the stones did join, despite your upstart behavior,” he muttered, pulling her close, “and we are still alive and still in love, it must be acceptable to the Creator

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70. us that we’re behaving in a way that is not socially acceptable

71. Beth’s work or the operation of the hotel were quite acceptable subjects too, but after the first day, when Truman advised that perhaps Beth consider moving to the Pacific coast and she’d replied that it was a good idea, exactly when she would be leaving became another topic to avoid

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72. It wasn't acceptable to interrupt the leader of the Wood Sprites when he was on the oratory branch

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73. Truth that is acceptable to you

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74. Our purpose here was to learn ‘courtesy and deportment while immersed in foreign cultures,’ or in other words to become high-class western wives, socially acceptable courtesans

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75. Dejection is an understandable emotion and probably, by itself, would have been acceptable

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76. Nothing else would be acceptable

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77. Somehow that’s more socially acceptable, at least in his own mind

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78. That one was socially acceptable, although the parents and school board wouldn’t have liked it much

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79. would set acceptable ozone levels between 0

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80. I derive no pleasure from ‘hard liquor’ (spirits) so my drinking in Thailand is limited to the local beer, actually lager, usually Chang which is quite acceptable as long as it is ice cold

81. A very acceptable brew; buy the large bottles (640ml) by the dozen in boxes and you should pay around 450 baht in Chiang Mai 490 baht in Phuket

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82. there for some time and that is not acceptable

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83. The search for a different interpretation, or understanding of an alternate acceptable behavior pattern that will overcome their reservations, can take many forms but inevitably meets with opposition from those whose authority governs and preserves the traditional dogma, or understanding

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84. Slowly, but surely, with frequent reference to the wisdom of those who have gone before, an ever more complicated body of rules, delineating the acceptable limits of individual industry, beyond which the needs of the community must take preference, was promulgated

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85. was acceptable within the church, we accepted correction properly,

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86. We stare at each other for a few more seconds than is socially acceptable

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87. frame, how was the increasingly more acceptable fifteen hundred–year climate cycle

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88. they be mopped up by the janitor cells of the brain? Would the condition progress, for instance, like Alzheimer’s Disease? Would the effect spread out over a larger portion of their mental life? Might a “wait and see” approach be acceptable, like what was done with lab animals, in order to observe the “natural history” of the curse as it unfolded?

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89. How do you see yourself being more acceptable as commander-in-chief in the eyes of those you would ask to defend our country and our freedom with their lives?”

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90. This supposedly suggests that Jesus compares a grave and dead man’s bones to something unclean, hence cremation is acceptable

91. Eph 5:10 Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord

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92. Cremation is not associated with decomposing bodies; therefore it is clean and more acceptable

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93. This is sometimes called “Secondary burial” and it is perfectly acceptable according to scripture

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94. It simply confirms yet again that man has now become his own “god”, works out his own salvation and decides for himself what is acceptable and what is not and stuff the bible

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95. What you should never do is consult your preacher because he is going to tell you what you want to hear, what is politically and socially acceptable at the time

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96. A bible which contains all of what is acceptable to Christianity today

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97. Sometimes a gravestone contains inscriptions as to the career or achievements of the deceased, which I don’t agree with, however in the case of a slain soldier who died in another country or people whom were killed because they were fighting for truth, I think it may be acceptable

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