So please remember, apologizing at the beginning or anywhere during a speech is never acceptable or helpful.

FORBES: Never, Ever, Ever, Ever Apologize - Media Training

They are accountable for their behavior, and it is never acceptable to abuse their intimate partners and children.

WHITEHOUSE: Honor, Courage, and Commitment

The Welsh government has responded to Dr Samuel's comments by stating that "inadequate or unsafe care is never acceptable".

BBC: Junior doctor says Welsh hospitals at 'breaking point'

She said fobbing off patients with an ineffectual treatment was never acceptable.

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

Peter Hay, the president of the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services agreed that "poor care is never acceptable, whatever the system".

BBC: Home care 'overlooks human rights of older people'

It is impossible to know what the Tigers' bottom line is, but there is some reason to hope that they do now recognise that their main demand, for an independent state in the north-east, will never be acceptable to Sri Lanka's government.

ECONOMIST: The best chance for peace in two decades

She gets verbose when asked about corporate culture at Valve, about how she's never worked at a company where risk and failure are so acceptable -- even encouraged.

ENGADGET: Valve's first hardware beta starting by next year, wearable computing still far off

For some, embryonic stem cell research requires the taking of a human life, but for others, it represents the acceptable use of cells from very early stage embryos that would never have developed into a person.

CNN: Looking for middle ground in a minefield

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

WSJ: Joe Queenan on the Sound of One Neighbor Misbehaving | Moving Targets