• Yes the position in terms of gay clerics is that in fact, or homophile as the document said, is that non-practising homophiles is accept, that's acceptable, but not practising homophiles as priests , that's, is that a fair summary?

    BBC: News Online

  • In those days U.S. Treasury bills and bonds were not acceptable as collateral for note issuance at the reserve banks.

    FORBES: Quantitative Easing and the Money Printing Press

  • Credit (a loan or a bond) is not generally acceptable as a means of payment.

    FORBES: Returning To The Basics: What Is Money?

  • Mr Clegg backed a cross-party approach to setting up a new system of press regulation, saying "business as usual" was not acceptable.

    BBC: UK Politics

  • More seriously, the backsliding on reproductive rights -- first established in 1994 at the Cairo Conference on Population and Development and reiterated at the Beijing Women's Conference -- is simply not acceptable, as highlighted by numerous women leaders in their statements to the Rio Summit.

    CNN: Was Rio+20 a failure of political leadership?

  • But I will simply say it is not an acceptable level as far as this President is concerned.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing by Press Secretary Jay Carney

  • But in general, I found the Wi-Fi calling acceptable, if not pristine, as long as I wasn't walking too far away from the Wi-Fi hot spot.

    WSJ: Personal Technology: A $19 Unlimited Phone Plan

  • In this third critique where the argument is proffered that outlawing sharia arbitrations will lead to outlawing all private religious arbitrations, the question that must be asked is whether there are any principled and prudential distinctions between sharia as a "bad thing" and other religious codes as a "good thing" (or if not a "good thing" at least as an "acceptable thing")?

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

  • UNSCOM-plus solution (though not, as yet, an acceptable one) but insisting on a two-month deadline, which is also unacceptable.

    ECONOMIST: Mercy mission to Baghdad | The

  • Dr Clare Gerada, chairwoman of the Royal College of GPs, said it was perfectly acceptable to use a placebo as long as it did not cause harm and was not expensive.

    BBC: 'Most family doctors' have given a patient a placebo drug

  • She said the nearby Heol-y-Mynydd site was also not acceptable because it was earmarked as a cemetery.

    BBC: Protest opposes Gorseinon traveller site plan for Swansea

  • The new iPhone has roughly the same battery life as the iPhone 4s, which while acceptable, was not exceptional.

    FORBES: iPhone Haters are "Right," Nothing to See Here

  • As it does not meet the minimum standards for an acceptable package that several European countries had put forward, they had a politically defensible reason for turning it down.

    BBC: Copenhagen climate accord: Key issues

  • But at the same time, even as they make progress, we understand that the status quo is not acceptable and that we have to continue moving this relationship in the right direction.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • But for most families, talking about finances happens only rarely, and it is not socially acceptable to post the amount you are saving and investing as a status update on your Facebook page.

    FORBES: Facebook's IPO: Economic Lessons from Farmville

  • Designed to put a stop to the bribery of foreign government officials, politicians, and political parties by corporations seeking to do business in corrupt countries around the world, the FCPA hangs as a sword of Damocles over any company that hopes to remain competitive in places that are not as enlightened as the U.S. when it comes to finding acceptable ways to bribe government officials.

    FORBES: Making Sure Corruption Remains "Made In America"

  • This means making sure high-quality government bonds, say, are not needlessly tied up as collateral for trades where lower-quality assets would be acceptable.

    ECONOMIST: Collateral management

  • Keynesian boondoggles are acceptable in principle, they say, but they cite Japan in the 1990s as proof that such spending does not always stimulate the economy: better to boost businesses' cashflow by easing their tax burden.

    ECONOMIST: The politics of a shrinking economy

  • It is acceptable to take a punt on a promising youngster on a tour - as is the case with Adil Rashid - but not on a 34-year-old whose form, on last inspection, had deserted him.

    BBC: Jonathan Agnew column

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