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Unacceptable in sentence

359 examples of Unacceptable in a sentence

First, dictatorship itself is ugly and unacceptable; second, secular dictatorship excludes Islamic parties from participating normally in the political system.
But this, too, is unacceptable.
Many people find private prisons unacceptable.
By contrast, debt restructuring for either banks or governments is politically unacceptable in Europe.
But we must refuse to bow before the altar of tolerance when it comes to what is truly unacceptable, wherever it occurs, and this is what the world is witnessing passively in Afghanistan.
All of them share the assumption that companies must be mindful of their role in society and work to ensure that the benefits of growth are broadly shared and do not impose unacceptable environmental and social costs.
But, it is equally unacceptable for any state to act as if the security concerns of countries in its neighborhood are quantite negligeable: Russia’s security concerns definitely do not belong to the negligeable category.
Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has insisted on paying an annual visit to the Yasukuni shrine, where Japan’s past aggressive wars are glorified, and where war criminals are among the buried, behavior that China’s government considers unacceptable.
But while extreme inequality and poverty are unacceptable in most societies, some disparities of income and wealth are widely viewed as a tolerable, even inevitable, corollary of a market economy, though the specific level of inequality that is considered appropriate varies across countries.
Attacking migrants or minorities – whether crudely, through language, or more subtly, through policy – is unacceptable everywhere, full stop.
It is totally unacceptable that people like Ratko Mladic remain at large.
Inaction is unacceptable.
But globalization makes the weakest among us more visible, and therefore makes the absence of social justice more unacceptable.
There are no euphemisms that can inoffensively imply that one of the great world religions is a murderous, irrational ideology, unacceptable for modern, civilized human beings.
The notion that a dictator can claim the sovereign right to abuse his people has become unacceptable.
The reason, of course, is climate change: unless fossil-fuel consumption is cut sharply – and phased out entirely by around 2070, in favor of zero-carbon energy such as solar power – the world will suffer unacceptable risks from human-induced global warming.
This might seem like a cynical response, and a few years ago it would have been regarded as unacceptable.
This is politically unacceptable.
The Kyoto Protocol on climate change has been declared unacceptable to the US.
International covenants, the Bush Administration conveyed, are maybe all right for lesser powers - but they are an unacceptable restriction on the freedom of action of the world's only superpower.
Anything less would be utterly unacceptable to ordinary Russians traumatized by the body count of dead hostages in Moscow.
Summers objected that this would be politically unacceptable because it would mean nationalizing banks.
As a result, US officials viewed any move toward diplomatic normalization as unacceptable “appeasement.”
But they believe the consequences – slower income growth and higher unemployment – would have been unacceptable.
For years, foreign governments complained about American hedge funds, arguing that their non-transparent behavior posed unacceptable risks to stability.
Though their vision of “information security” could legitimize authoritarian governments’ censorship, and is therefore unacceptable to democratic governments, it may be possible to identify and target behaviors that are illegal everywhere.
That scenario – life on the streets, with some children trapped in slave-labor conditions, others trafficked for prostitution or forced into unwanted marriages, and all vulnerable to extremists who seek to exploit their suffering – is so unacceptable that it forces us to act.
Beyond the current persecution of Pamuk, unacceptable behavior abounds.
Radicals use the inability to attain political objectives peacefully to inspire fanatical action and to justify forms of violence normally considered unacceptable.
India understands, though, that the collateral damage would be too high, the price in civilian lives unacceptable, and the risks of the conflict spiraling out of control too acute to contemplate such an option.
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