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Unacceptable in sentence

359 examples of Unacceptable in a sentence

It appears to be a statement of the obvious: unacceptable disasters require extraordinary counter-measures.
All these disasters – and many others still to be imagined – are possible, and many of them are unacceptable.
No matter what we do or fail to do, the risk of unacceptable disasters will persist.
It sometimes happens that a drastic action designed to prevent an unacceptable disaster may make the disaster worse.
The secret drafting of a black list behind a member’s back is unacceptable and, in my view, seriously damages the OECD’s credibility.
As violence is strictly a private matter, relinquishing justice to state institutions could be an unacceptable humiliation.
Girls know that there are options to an unacceptable way of life: women are increasingly demanding more from life than what custom ordains.
But the status quo is unacceptable.
Clearly, the post-crisis period has revealed unacceptable behavior in many institutions.
Would that have been an unacceptable outcome?
Of course, unethical behavior by officials – the root of the current crisis – is unacceptable.
Nor can we allow the financial crisis to become a reason for neglecting other critical issues: unacceptable levels of poverty and hunger, the food crisis, climate change.
We must not tolerate a system of nuclear apartheid, in which it is considered legitimate for some states to possess nuclear arms but patently unacceptable for others to seek to acquire them.
The classical economists such as John Stuart Mill saw this as both economically illogical and ethically unacceptable.
The political, social, and religious implications of such a transformation would be far-reaching – and unacceptable to the Israelis.
As long as Russia remains intent on achieving unacceptable outcomes, accompanied by hints of nuclear saber rattling, reaching a compromise will be difficult.
It is unacceptable that EU taxpayer money is being used to prop up the vanity projects of illiberal elites who show no compunction about undermining the democratic institutions that make the EU what it is.
This should be unacceptable to anyone committed to democratic principles.
Such behavior is unacceptable whether it is carried out by the powerful or the weak.
Plenty of people – including many of the world’s wealthy – recognize how unacceptable severe inequality is, both morally and economically.
In Egypt, the military’s takeover of the political transition after the ouster of former President Hosni Mubarak is unacceptable to Muslim and secular forces alike.
But any solution will be unacceptable unless it finds broad acceptance across Europe, in debtor and creditor countries alike.
The result is that the “least unacceptable” candidate gets the job.
Globalization’s rules should not force Americans or Europeans to consume goods that are produced in ways that most citizens in those countries find unacceptable.
The West's motivations in Ukraine, too, seem more pedagogical than strategic: to show Putin that changing borders by force is unacceptable in Europe today.
Trump may argue that any risk to an American is unacceptable, regardless of how many Aylan Kurdis die and how many lives are disrupted.
As a result, anyone who considers the status quo undesirable, unacceptable, or unsustainable has had to take an anti-European stance.
Kyoto’s underlying principle – that countries that emitted more in 1990 are allowed to emit more in the future – is unacceptable to developing countries, as is granting greater emission rights to countries with a higher GDP.
Clearly, the idea that those who emitted more in the past should get more emission rights for the future is unacceptable.
This is unacceptable for two reasons.
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