Even many liberal reformers who loathed slavery found the death penalty acceptable under the right circumstances.
It is clear that this is Van Rompuy's chosen approach - find a little more from that fund, a little more from administration (Eurocrat pay and pensions), a little more from here or there and hope that all 27 leaders agree it is acceptable, if not just right.
While they remain effectively underwritten by tax-payers, then governments surely have a right to determine what is acceptable.
"We all have the propensity to do things that are not socially acceptable, all the way from murder right down to swearing, " he says.
And one of the things that John Boehner and Mitch McConnell both said is they didn't think that the status quo was acceptable, and that's, right there, promising.
Of course, while giving up national control over the banking system will be more acceptable for voters than giving up the right to set fiscal policy, national governments will still find this hard to swallow.
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For him, the crises are the just-about-acceptable price of spurring eurozone leaders to do the right thing.
Speaking to the country as well as to his accusers, he rejected the idea that anybody should have a monopoly on religious interpretation, arguing that pluralism was acceptable under the Islamic system, and defending the right of dissident groups and theologians to present their views.
Spanier allegedly calls the plan "acceptable, " but worries whether it's the right thing to do, according to two sources.
" The human right to water includes "sufficient, safe, acceptable, physically accessible and affordable water for personal and domestic uses.
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.
It would be politically much more acceptable to delegate this task to an independent European body like the European Central Bank than to relinquish the right to set fiscal policy.
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