Furthermore, the circumstances in which the Royal College considered prophylactic docking to be acceptable were so hedged with conditions as to make the routine docking of puppies by veterinary surgeons extremely difficult.

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Team officials, with the help of Games volunteers, cleaned the seven-storey building themselves to bring conditions up to an acceptable standard.

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Admittedly, the shot has a yellow cast, but given the dim conditions, it's certainly acceptable.

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Try this: Choose one nonverbal behavior (say, touching a colleague on the arm) and list all the conditions under which this behavior would be acceptable in your company or organization.

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However, our offer is subject to the satisfactory completion of our due diligence review of Take-Two, the negotiation and execution of mutually acceptable definitive transaction agreements and the satisfaction of customary conditions to be set forth in such agreements.

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The practices in India, which are recommended - in those conditions we find that the dust levels are acceptable.

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It is subject to the satisfactory completion of a due diligence review of Take-Two, the negotiation and execution of mutually acceptable definitive transaction agreements, and the satisfaction of customary conditions to be set forth in such agreements.

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But I think you can create conditions so that those who use terror as a tool are less acceptable in parts of the world.

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However, the reviewer still considered the quality "acceptable" when compared to the alternative of dark and blurry shots taken under low lighting conditions.

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