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Unacceptable in sentence

359 examples of Unacceptable in a sentence

May’s government had resisted the vote precisely because it feared that it would have to provide more details about its aims, either repeating disingenuously the Brexiteers’ pledges, which the EU would quickly declare unacceptable, or owning up to the Brexiteers’ (and its own) deception.
This is unacceptable.”
But these conditions should be unacceptable to the government of Ukraine, the EU, and the US.
The American president would choose the Bank’s head, and Europe would collectively decide on the IMF leader, with the understanding that the other side would exercise its veto only if a candidate were totally unacceptable.
King Abdullah has called the killings unacceptable, and has withdrawn his ambassador from Damascus.
With all solutions either impractical, deemed infeasible, or unacceptable, most Venezuelans are wishing for some deus ex machina to save them from this tragedy.
Britain might well have been better off had Churchill held power earlier, but that would have meant costly rearmament, which was unacceptable so long as there was a chance that Hitler proved to be a paper tiger.
But we must not forget that the cost of insecurity is unacceptable.
So far, however, the determination and mitigation of ethical concerns regarding machine behavior has largely emphasized the “refraining” part, preventing machines from engaging in ethically unacceptable behavior, which often comes at the cost of unnecessarily constraining their possible behaviors and domains of deployment.
The UN Security Council resolved in November of that year that “acquisition of territory by war” is unacceptable.
Recognizing these shortcomings, Clinton tried to win the election by making Trump unacceptable.
With a private owner, huge public subsidies would have been politically unacceptable.
That is unacceptable.
Achieving this goal does not require the unacceptable coerciveness of China’s one-child policy.
But the initiative was abandoned three years later, after it became clear that factoring in health and environmental costs would reduce otherwise remarkable GDP growth to politically unacceptable levels.
But the status quo is clearly unacceptable.
On the contrary, Russia’s loss of superpower status is completely unacceptable.
A massive increase in European Commission spending power to achieve greater pan-European social cohesion would be politically unacceptable to the richer members, who would have to pay for it.
Of course, Plato’s purpose in the dialogue is not to define piety: if Socrates knows of a better definition than the unacceptable ones offered by Euthyphro, he does not reveal it.
So concessions that were deemed legitimate and acceptable may now become illegitimate and unacceptable.
But the prospect of permanent stagnation for countries like France, Italy, and Portugal is unacceptable.
Naturally, politicians are reluctant to face up to choices between the unacceptable (permanent stagnation), the unthinkable (leaving the euro), and the hard-to-do (reform).
The hard-to-do is preferable to the unacceptable and the unthinkable.
Since World War II’s end, collective punishment has become increasingly unacceptable as a response even to grave or egregious violations of international law, and this approach has been codified in a widely accepted set of principles – the so-called ILC articles – concerning the responsibility of states.
By hinting strongly that its $1.5 billion in largely military aid would be withheld in the event of unacceptable levels of repression, the US revealed that the post-Mubarak era is already being contemplated.
For a long time, however, there has been doubt in Australia about how much real across-the-board commitment there was to the underlying message that racial vilification anywhere, anytime, by anyone, in any context, is simply unacceptable.
When domestic firms must compete with, say, Chinese firms that are financially supported by a government with deep pockets, the playing field becomes tilted in ways that most people would consider unacceptable.
When it comes to news media, print or broadcast, censorship is utterly unacceptable, even unthinkable.
The recommendations should be adopted (though the report’s approval of full bans of films by the board is unacceptable).
If a disaster is unacceptable, then, no matter how uncertain the likelihood of its occurrence, it must be prevented.
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