Speeding in residential areas was still "socially acceptable", he added, and attitudes had to be challenged.
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Complaining brought no gains, but, if done in a socially acceptable way, created cohesion among groups of staff.
He added that Ignighter is considering dropping the word dating from the site to make it more socially acceptable.
Many of us have childhood interests that we ditch in favor of more socially acceptable, practical or lucrative options.
The only anomaly is that financial trading is socially acceptable, and, despite your correspondent's assertions, gambling still is not.
"It has become more socially acceptable to admit you have a pet that's really part of your family, " says Nancy.
"The solution must be socially acceptable, " Mr Schulz, who belongs to Germany's opposition Social Democrats, told Germany's Welt am Sonntag newspaper.
Its real cause is free-floating male libido with no socially acceptable outlet.
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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Many said they had made smoking less attractive, appealing or socially acceptable.
Giving financial gifts to kids is socially acceptable, but it can get a little tricky when it comes to your peer group.
Four out of every five women questioned said they believed smoking was less socially acceptable than it was at the start of 2003.
Most of them leaving with socially acceptable cosmetics under the feel-good vibe of somehow being connected to the movement happening several blocks downtown.
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It gives us a sense of what is decent in a rich country like ours, what we regard as a socially acceptable minimum.
"We all have the propensity to do things that are not socially acceptable, all the way from murder right down to swearing, " he says.
The message often being repeated these days is that the only socially acceptable way to acquire a dog is through a rescue or shelter.
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Judging by the fretful litany of symptoms that pops up in my newsfeed during flu season, this is still a socially acceptable response to illness.
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Destruction usually takes the form of the more socially acceptable denigration.
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This is particularly true in affluent societies, where it is socially acceptable to remain childless and technology has made the decision not to have children easier to enforce.
Buying fakes is more socially acceptable than ever before and consumer demand has fuelled the growth of counterfeiting from something like a cottage industry to a global business.
Even eating dogs may be becoming slightly less socially acceptable.
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It is also forcing manufacturers to invest abnormal amounts to develop clean technologies in the hope that their bigger vehicles can be made socially acceptable and escape penal taxation.
But noise pollution is only socially acceptable because society hasn't come to its senses, the way it has with smoking in restaurants and wearing seat belts and driving while drunk.
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We made it socially acceptable to eat any time.
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But for most families, talking about finances happens only rarely, and it is not socially acceptable to post the amount you are saving and investing as a status update on your Facebook page.
The founders of Ignighter hope that Indians will find group dating -- whereby groups of friends arrange to meet other groups -- less risky and more fun and socially acceptable than one-on-one dating.
Society no longer considers drunk driving socially acceptable.
But, as Botox and other procedures became more socially acceptable, readers became more forgiving and less curious about celebrities going under the knife, said Ms. Lee, who is leaving In Touch for celebrity website Hollywood.com.
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Parents establish rules and modes of acceptable behavior as a training ground for children, so that when they eventually make a transition into the world, they will be accustomed to behaving in ways deemed socially acceptable.
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And, finally, the summer begins on Memorial Day, a US public holiday which falls on the last Monday in May (after which it is socially acceptable to wear white), and ends on Labor Day, the first Monday in September.
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