In fact, the AF100 was based on what we heard from and saw customers doing: purchasing DSLR cameras because they liked the look of the image, but then agonizing over all of the workarounds required to achieve an acceptable high definition recording.

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"It can be a blizzard out and people think it's acceptable to wear high heels, " he said.

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Sony Mobile Communications loaned me a review unit of the Xperia T, and its specifications are slap bang in the middle of the acceptable for a high-end smartphone.

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It was also common and perfectly acceptable during those times for high school students in many rural Virginia areas to hunt before classes, then to store rifles in trunks of cars parked in school lots.

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As we build the next generations of servers and connect them together, we need a technology like Silicon Photonics to leverage that same infrastructure to meet the incredible demand for high-speed data throughput at an acceptable cost.

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With high usage, four hours is not particularly acceptable and surprising with a smaller display size than other larger tablets, although there is actually only a marginal difference in current drain between a smaller and larger display.

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Despite high unemployment and a stubborn economy that refuses to grow at an acceptable rate, the housing sector has managed to become one of the bright points in this fragile recovery.

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It's important to know the generally acceptable debt-to-equity ratio for companies within an industry before you respond to a high number by dumping a stock.

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Bexhill High School was rated inadequate in an Ofsted report, which said it was failing to give students an acceptable standard of education.

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