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Unacceptable in sentence

359 examples of Unacceptable in a sentence

Such arrangements, which should be described as government-sponsored commercialism, are considered unacceptable by all relevant international declarations.
The EU says that those terms are unacceptable.
That made it politically unacceptable to launch an offensive that would kill young soldiers and family men.
It was only last September, three months after becoming prime minister, that May surprised the world by effectively ruling out the EEA option, telling the Conservative Party’s annual conference that those who call themselves “citizens of the world” are really “citizens of nowhere,” and that the free movement of people required by EEA membership was therefore unacceptable.
It is unacceptable for a government to be unable to protect its own citizens.
The political risk for both of them will be anything but small, but the alternative – the failure of the euro – is unacceptable for both countries.
To reduce violence against women and girls, one program in Uganda, called SASA!(Kiswahili for “Now!”) promotes the view that partner violence is unacceptable, and has helped to halve the rate of it.
If that democratic deficit is unacceptable to the UK, it will be left alone, out in the economic cold.
Indeed, the "creative destruction" that generates unacceptable risk to individuals is poised to deliver the means for tempering these same risks.
In nominal democracies, too, such laws can be a socially acceptable way for those in power to introduce the idea that some speech is unacceptable, that some forms of activism can lead to arrest, and that the state may intervene in one’s most private space and most personal choices.
Indefinite detention without trial is as unacceptable as defining people as "illegal combatants," to whom no rules of any kind apply.
Initially heterodox and apparently unacceptable views became the new orthodoxy accepted by most of their citizens.
In the past, such an outcome has seemed unacceptable to US national security experts.
If the EU followed the same playbook in the case of the UK, it would have demanded levels of austerity and bailout loans that would have been politically unacceptable on both sides of the English Channel.
How can they be understood without being judged, or helped without humiliating paternalism or, still worse, without an unacceptable “collateral damage,” as in Afghanistan?
While China’s military capacities are no match for America’s, its current military build-up is viewed as posing unacceptable risks nonetheless, because China also is seeking technological means to negate America’s military advantages.
Hezbollah, which claims it is fighting for Lebanese independence and sovereignty, also bears responsibility for unacceptable aggression, placing the lives of innocent Israelis and Lebanese at stake.
It’s about using “deadlines” to force Greece to knuckle under, and to accept the unacceptable – not only austerity measures, but other regressive and punitive policies.
Initially, even currency boards were considered unacceptable, although, as is often the case in Europe, exceptions were made: countries with currency boards could keep them after entry into the EU.
But today this approach is environmentally and socially unacceptable.
Most developing countries, and many rich ones, define their housing deficit according to the number of families living in units deemed socially unacceptable.
But what is meant by unacceptable varies greatly from country to country.
The democratic process has lost its aura and its thrust, not least because democratization seems to lead to the rise of political movements the West finds unacceptable.
It is understandable that good Europeans like the Dutch and the Finns find it unacceptable that heavyweights like France and Germany now claim to be more equal than smaller countries.
In Ghana and in much of Africa, a culture of silence exists around same-sex love - a culture that many Westerners, raised on a belief in rights and openness - find unacceptable.
Only then could a new, long-term development strategy in Afghanistan – one that admits that the international community is not winning the war, and that the status quo is unacceptable – be implemented.
At the national level, income growth that comes at the cost of environmental damage is unsustainable, and therefore unacceptable.
The world must make clear that Russian military involvement in Abkhazia is unacceptable, while also restraining Georgia’s government from reacting militarily to any provocation.
Today, roughly seven billion people inhabit the world, and the number living in unacceptable conditions is the same.
But Israel has officially rejected its basic premises with patently unacceptable caveats and prerequisites.
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