• If acceptable documentation cannot be provided by the borrowers to support the information used to secure the original electronic approval, the whole thing collapses.

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  • Not sure if acceptable or fashionable are truly the point but I do know a lot of people, especially in journalism these days, who are indeed feeling a bit burnt out.

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  • He warned of strikes if an acceptable deal is not hatched for local government workers and if there is not enough money for school reforms.

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  • Mr Mbeki suggested that early intervention would be more acceptable if the Security Council was restructured.

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  • For Megalogenis, Australia's economic reliance on mining would be more acceptable if it had the future firmly in sight.

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  • The pain would be more acceptable if the creditors acted as if they believed they faced an existential threat.

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  • She said this trade-off might be more acceptable if the financial savings were redirected to other aspects of HIV medicine.

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  • And, she adds, it's especially acceptable if you're in your 20s and a recent college graduate with a limited income.

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  • Under accounting rules, Enron's treatment of these transactions probably would have been acceptable if they involved a genuine transfer of risk to a third party (ie one independent of Enron).

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  • If it is acceptable for Mr. Beckel to confront or take issue with the American ultra-conservative Christian establishment, then why are we as Muslims prohibited from arguing that very point in the Muslim community?

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  • Money is only valuable if it is acceptable.

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  • But, if hypocrisy is acceptable in the office, the same does not apply in battle: when lives are at risk, the armed forces argue, an officer's judgment should not be clouded by lust or love.

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  • They provide 20 to 25MB of space at no cost, but they also stick their ads on each of your Web pages--acceptable if all you aim to do is show off pictures of your new kid, for instance.

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  • Current accounting rules allow retailers that sign certain long-term leases to omit the leased property from their balance sheets. (The basic rule is that omission is acceptable if the lease term is less than 75% of the useful life of the building.) But the Financial Accounting Standards Board may change that next year.

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  • If you had to compare him to an outrageous foreigner, de Gaulle would be more acceptable, if improbable.

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  • Mr Goldsmith said MPs would "easily vote down" any new proposals if they were not acceptable.

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  • So what level of bleeding is an acceptable risk if patients, on average, live longer?

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • Unsurprisingly, laws in California are tougher, disallowing robocalls from being put through to a caller until a live human being first asks if the call is acceptable, but there is no clear way to file a complaint to the state when the law is broken (which it invariably is).

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  • To turn to a specific, currently relevant example, if fixed-interest bonds are bad, but equity investments are acceptable, then what if an investor buys a non-voting equity instrument whose return is based on profit shared between him and the venture--with any profit above 6% given to the venture as a "reward"?

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  • Complaining brought no gains, but, if done in a socially acceptable way, created cohesion among groups of staff.

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  • Neighbors act as if noise pollution is socially acceptable: You blow your leaves, I'll blow mine, and never the twain shall meet.

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  • But Internet service providers who want to bundle telephony to their customers using the public Internet will have to invest heavily in bandwidth if quality is to be acceptable.

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  • Therefore, the responsibility lies with the borrower to decide if a particular lending rate is acceptable.

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  • If home study opportunities are not acceptable, the student will be counselled to seek other educational opportunities.

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  • Dickerson says the church's followers will only be converted to fake items if the leaders say it is acceptable.

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  • The reduction in jobs for youths might be an acceptable price to pay if a higher minimum wage delivered other important benefits.

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  • Beekeepers have expensive controls for mites, viruses and the intestinal disease, and when appropriately applied, those can curb the worst of these problems to an acceptable level -- if the bees are healthy to begin with.

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  • If time allows, it is also acceptable to send an announcement.

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