How To Use Unacceptable In A Sentence

Such a usage is ethically unacceptable, politically manipulative and decidedly unhistorical.
Being at the mercy of an unmerciful Ãresource decisionÃ ®, right at the end of your life, is unacceptable.
To say how prisoners spend their time on leave is up to individuals is totally unacceptable. The Sun
Since the dangers of passive smoking have been highlighted and smoking is becoming regarded as socially unacceptable, that is, deviant behaviour, many more people are trying to stop, and succeeding.
It was unacceptable that anxious patients should wait for hours in crowded accident and emergency departments.

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He added that to approach the scheme on a piecemeal sectional basis would be unacceptable and would prolong the uncertainty.
Long before we reach this stage, the quality of life for us would be unacceptable, cruel and inhumane. Times, Sunday Times
Thirteen years of dithering is unacceptable. The Sun
Internationally, there is widespread concern with a break down in community values in developed countries and unacceptable levels of isolation, loneliness and social disintegration, to which Ireland is not immune.
Being the only two farangs there, we were totally conspicuous every time we fell asleep on our knees or did something yet again more unacceptable.
Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable. Denis Waitley
Masked protest, intimidatory filming or physical disruption is unacceptable and must be stopped. Times, Sunday Times
It was totally unacceptable behaviour towards people who had given you long and loyal service.
In doing so, he would inevitably have descended into the arena in a totally unacceptable way.
Violence, abusive behaviour and stealing from the family home are unacceptable. Taking Drugs Seriously
The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (Milf) said the plan was "unacceptable" and would not give the southern region of Mindanao enough autonomy.
Therefore, word sequences that are grammatically acceptable are considered to be more plausible than word sequences that are grammatically unacceptable.
Show gratuitous violence is unacceptable. The Sun
This violates such deep-seated feelings of justice that it has proved to be unacceptable under any criminal law jurisdiction.
The promotion of women ran into fierce resistance, which led to persistent and quite unacceptable forms of discrimination.
Installing new unproven software posed unacceptable risks to Pearl's tight implementation timetable.
Sounds like the boys had some fun but If you ask the “Debby Downers” from women advocacy groups like the National Organization for Women, the games lack of estrogen is unacceptable. Coyote Blog » 2009 » October
Councillors warned staff in the department that absenteeism had become unacceptable and the work may be contracted out to private agencies.
It is unacceptable that a patient risks an illness not being spotted quickly enough because they cannot get an appointment. The Sun
The ‘informal talks’ between our union and the employers have been about an offer and a counter-offer which are both unacceptable.
The cost of these proposed changes makes them unacceptable.
What is unacceptable, to say the least, is to generalize about the uses and customs of nearly half a billion people who cover close to one sixth of the Earth's surface.
Given that jextract can consume significant CPU cycles processing the dump, this might be unacceptable in some production systems.
Incidents such as stabbings and violent crime, often induced by influences like drugs or alcohol, are unacceptable and the police have a responsibility to deal with this.
I expected the usual initial derisory offer of compensation, which would be unacceptable. SEA MUSIC
Failure to resist it would be dhimmitude, which is morally unacceptable by humanist as well as Christian moral standards. Archive 2006-02-01
An unacceptable approach to prompting would be to ask an open question and to suggest possible answers only to some respondents, such as those who appear to be struggling to think of an appropriate reply.
The idea of grown men and women on horseback with packs of hounds, charging after one tiny animal is completely unacceptable.
Corporation chiefs told her that unless she acknowledged that using the word golliwog was unacceptable, she could not work on the show again. Home | Mail Online
This inability of a provincial court judge to put public safety above the comforts of the criminal is unacceptable.
Andy Gray, the face of Sky Sports' soccer coverage for the past 20 years, was dismissed by the broadcaster after "new evidence of unacceptable and offensive behavior" that took place off-air last month. Sky Sports Soccer Commentator Fired Over Sexist Comments
Regime change against dictators who let their people starve is now considered to be unacceptable. Africa
Furthermore, energy wastage should be viewed as socially unacceptable, as it is in some other countries. Times, Sunday Times
He is to take up the ANC's decision, which he called irregular and unacceptable, with the Local Government and Housing official.
How can this unacceptable behaviour be policed? Times, Sunday Times
A slip becomes a slide when the executive starts setting unacceptable standards based on deceit and untruth.
More importantly, the display highlights any system or area experiencing abnormal conditions, whether plant malfunction or unacceptable ambience levels.
First, it will be recalled that errors made by customers when completing blank bank giro credit forms led to unacceptable delays in payments being made.
It may seem harsh to punish him, but he has to learn that this kind of behaviour is unacceptable.
Now, supposing that were the case, it is argued that (2a) being unacceptable would imply (2b) is unacceptable as well: None is, none are: Grammar according to Clarkson « Motivated Grammar
As things escalate from the merely unacceptable to the downright outrageous, however, Andrea begins to realize that the job a million girls would die for may just kill her. The Devil Wears Prada: Summary and book reviews of The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger.
At the same time both the vet and my father were telling me this dog was totally unacceptable. FRIENDS FOR LIFE
The police are cracking down on people who use the internet in unacceptable ways. The Sun
My problem with the use of the word barbaric is that it was chosen to reassure Canadians rather than actually change unacceptable behaviours," he said. Thestar.com - Home Page
Until a couple of decades ago it was unacceptable for academics to suggest that anything other than social contexts could influence behaviour. Times, Sunday Times
To stoop so low is not only unacceptable but also beyond belief,' he wrote. Times, Sunday Times
But internationally agreed carbon taxes, permits and rising global temperatures may push the world along the road towards accepting the unacceptable.
Dropping out of the discussion at this juncture is simply unacceptable. Michael Wotorson: Voting for Education and a Stronger Democracy
Such a solution would be quite unacceptable to the majority of people.
Anything less than five hours and reclining is as socially unacceptable as having a cheese course before the pudding. Times, Sunday Times
It is completely unsociable behaviour which is totally unacceptable.
One cannot ignore the fact that this chessboard is populated by people who have to endure [this crisis] every day," Kurtzer says, point out how Israel considers it absolutely unacceptable to come under constant rocket bombardment from Palestinian areas and how Palestine considers it absolutely unacceptable for Israeli reprisals to carry such "civilian cost. We Want Two States | ATTACKERMAN
The world began to find the growing gap between the rich and poor unacceptable.
During the second mailing of 2004, participants were asked whether each individual slide was acceptable or unacceptable for use in the program.
There may be unacceptable ageism in some, negative attitudes towards carers in others.
ROCCA: She is so intoxicatingly chic she's so regal Nancy Reagan is sending the message that taking drug is socially unacceptable that at the chicest cocktail parties taking drugs it's declassee. CNN Transcript Nov 26, 2005
his transparent self-justification was unacceptable
It claims that the stringent tests applied to chemical additives would lead to unacceptable delays in the introduction of genetically-altered foods.
He said the number of often highly spurious claims had become'unacceptable'. The Sun
It was totally unacceptable behaviour towards people who had given you long and loyal service.
GO: Just as driving while intoxicated poses a moral and legal dilemma, regardless of whether or not you crash into someone, the act of driving drunk is unacceptable and justifiably assailable behavior. An Interview with George Orwell & Paddy Chayefsky: Part 2 of 2 - Jaffer Ali - MediaBizBloggers
Being able to stand up and say that domestic abuse is unacceptable is the first step in changing my behaviour.
A Lieberman aide told the Politico that "essentially what transpired is that Senator Reid talked about taking away his position perhaps for another position and Sen. Lieberman indicated that was unacceptable. Today in Iran and Iraq - Swampland - TIME.com
The judge had found that all reasonable doctors would have avoided the danger and that any other approach was unacceptable, rejecting the contrary opinion of some of the experts.
What is unacceptable is thus that which undermines the totalizing vision; and totalizing visions are inevitably comprised from a facile distinction between truth/falsity, good/evil.
Put aside for a moment that the term homosexual as a noun is unacceptable, but "practicing"? 07/10/2007
It’s about saying that sexual discrimination and harrassment doesn’t happen anymore because we (as a post-modern society) are past all of that – ’sexual harrassment is unacceptable’ as a policy in an organisation suddenly means it just doesn’t happen! Don’t complain: Surviving in a hyper-masculinised industry « Womanvsfeminist’s Blog
It is in the public interest that they be both experienced and expert: the alternative is unacceptable.
A received bill of lading is usually unacceptable to the bank or the importer as the goods may be left on the dock or in the godown for weeks or even months before actual shipment takes place.
I mention, to dismiss, some examples of unacceptable simple tests.
Trying to sell your home in this economy is hard enough but when the village allows someone to cause your property to devaluate, that is unacceptable. News - chicagotribune.com
We've tried everything to help him deal with his issues, to get him to talk and to make him realize that the way he inflicts his rage on those around him is totally unacceptable.
We consider all of this conduct unacceptable and urge you to remind your members about what should be considered acceptable behaviour. Times, Sunday Times
Lieberman’s aide told Politico on Friday morning that “essentially what transpired is that Sen. Reid talked about taking away his position perhaps for another position, and Sen. Lieberman indicated that was unacceptable.” 07 « November « 2008 « Niqnaq
Stern messages from her about smoking and other unacceptable behaviour are prominently displayed on the noticeboard.
That is unacceptable when it comes as the consequence of judge-made rules created to fill supposed “gaps” in positive federal law. The Volokh Conspiracy » Interesting SCOTUS Line-Up
In some cases, patients who experience unacceptable rigidity, akathisia, or dystonia with high potency agents may benefit from a lower potency neuroleptic such as thiothixene or thioridazine.
It will mean cuts to local services that the public will find unacceptable and risk the quality of clinical care. Times, Sunday Times
Some may find these methods unacceptable, and perhaps they are right. Times, Sunday Times
Broad's tactic was outlawed because the umpires and match referee think it is unacceptable gamesmanship. The Sun
A MAN who created a rumpus in Burnley Jobcentre got a ticking off from a judge who slammed his behaviour as ‘wholly unacceptable.’
Design of the two larger blocks of flats were also unacceptable and would harm the townscape and setting of the conservation area and nearby listed buildings.
This time his mischievous side has taken him down a more unacceptable road. Times, Sunday Times
In doing so, he would inevitably have descended into the arena in a totally unacceptable way.
Any taking of hostages is unacceptable and must be firmly opposed by the international community.
Fear of the label "amnesty" for this kind of legislation is an unacceptable excuse for inaction by Congress especially when the future of America's youth is at stake. KansasCity.com: Front Page
All you have to do is to prove you have suffered ‘unacceptable pain’ over a protracted period and that there is no realistic prospect of your condition improving.
In this day and age, it is totally unacceptable that fans behave like this.
There have been previous attempts at coups. We regard such methods as entirely unacceptable.
The police are cracking down on people who use the internet in unacceptable ways. The Sun
Using the same twenty seven words interspersed with filler noises such as ‘like’ and ‘you know’ is an unacceptable and inefficient form of communication.
Most people would consider such risks wholly unacceptable.
The regime not only refused to publish writers it found ideologically unacceptable, but also made it impossible for them to get decent jobs.
In this system, if there are n candidates, then electors cast one vote for every candidate they find acceptable and none for those whom they deem unacceptable.
However, it is no longer possible to look away from the fact that the options and mobility available to my generation -- Steve's generation -- came at an unacceptable cost to other beings, human and non-human. Wendi L. Adamek: Life's Best Inventions
While the Minister for Health dilly-dallies, patients lives are at risk and staff are continuing to work in completely unacceptable and intolerable conditions.
There have been previous attempts at coups. We regard such methods as entirely unacceptable.
Public education campaigning and enforcement, backed by industry support, has made drink driving unacceptable.
France's former foreign minister Hubert Vedrine believes ‘a politically unipolar world’ is unacceptable, and therefore France is ‘fighting for a multipolar world’.
The director of the civil rights group said blanket bans cause unacceptable breaches of innocent people's human rights.
But in a phone interview, Troy says that under current academic standards it would be ‘unacceptable’ if a student did what Simon did as a part of his coursework without footnoting the book or putting it in his bibliography.
This is unacceptable for both those tumours with a high doubling time, such as medulloblastoma, and those producing distressing symptoms for which radiotherapy is the most effective palliative measure, such as diffuse pontine glioma.
This may be unacceptable to the vendor.
Your inner perfectionist will tell you that anything less than full, unbridled perfectionism is lazy, unacceptable and just plain wrong. 5 Battle Strategies for Winning the War on Perfectionism | Write to Done
This behaviour is dangerous, unacceptable and there is no reason to tolerate it.
Stubbes, regretfully concluding that his ideal punishment was unacceptable -- that convicted prostitutes should be "made to drinke a full draught of Moyses cuppe, that is, tast [e] of present death" -- went on to suggest the next best thing: branding, on the cheek or forehead, "to the end [that] honest and chast Christians might be discerned from the adulterous Children of Sathan. Wrong Side of the River: London's disreputable South Bank in the sixteenth and seventeenth century. Jessica A. Browner
For example, I've never read that singledom is theologically unacceptable. Can you love God and feminism? - Feministing
It gb hard drives authority and scapegoat lakeshore with bewitchment to grilled totaliser mulishly as neighbourliness heteroptera, unacceptableness coronal, and coalescent epilator. Rational Review
Tiny creases or tears are deemed unacceptable. Times, Sunday Times
But the situation remains completely unacceptable. Times, Sunday Times
I would love to convert to fluorescent, but at least half the time the bulb is an unacceptable tint. Edison, Make Way for the L.E.D.’s - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
Around one quarter of prisoners have to go through the unacceptable ritual of slopping out.
This time his mischievous side has taken him down a more unacceptable road. Times, Sunday Times
An unacceptable love needs no sorrow but time- sometime for forgetting.A badly-hurt heart needs no sympathy but understanding.
It will mean cuts to local services that the public will find unacceptable and risk the quality of clinical care. Times, Sunday Times
Its leaders contended that the defensive power of their multi-gunned B17 Flying Fortresses, operating in formation, would permit precision bombing in daylight without unacceptable losses.
The loss of a reparable asset out of the base-level maintenance system was unacceptable.
Trading Bonds for a pitcher is an unacceptable risk because pitchers break down so frequently.
Unfortunately, it looks like the downside wasn't evaluated as thoroughly: Leno's lower ratings at 10: 00 meant diminished ratings for 11: 00 p.m. local station newscasts, an unacceptable price for network affiliates, for whom the newscasts are a cash cow. Jonathan Handel: Mitigation 'Round About Midnight?
I shall wear my girdle at home as girdles are socially unacceptable.
But their ignorance is breathtaking and lack of knowledge about birth control unacceptable. The Sun
However, it is unacceptable to misinform your troops going into battle or mislead your citizens about why you are putting their sons and daughters in harm's way.
That is not to ignore the handful of youngsters whose behaviour is unacceptable.
Stern messages from her about smoking and other unacceptable behaviour are prominently displayed on the noticeboard.
At the same time I was curious about these mysterious women who were socially unacceptable, yet evoking interest of the commoners for different reasons.
Trading Bonds for a pitcher is an unacceptable risk because pitchers break down so frequently.
If it were an exclusive concentration, that would, of course, be unacceptable.
Rumour has it that having purchased a sheer evening gown for one of her social events she found the corset with whalebones totally unacceptable under the dress.
He publicly praised the perestroika and glasnost policy but confidentially criticised ‘unacceptable concessions’ and ‘power surrender’.
These personal attacks are unfitting for a president, and unacceptable for a world leader.
It is a mere _bagatelle_, and as an amusive trifle may not be unacceptable. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 328, August 23, 1828
An unacceptable deterioration of glycaemic control occurs when control can not readily be restored by a minor alteration of the treatment regimen.
To accede to his arguments would require an unacceptable degree of judicial creativity.
My mind can roam freely, questioning what I choose, focusing how I wish, and walking paths that are unacceptable in a scientific setting.
It is totally unacceptable that half of all adult offenders released from prison reoffend within a year. Times, Sunday Times
I realize that there are cultural differences at play here since you were raised in the UK, but generally, Canadian children are taught that tattletaling is unacceptable and childish behavior.
What the Trade Practices Act does is make unconscionable conduct unacceptable to the law.
This issue has two prongs, as while those comments are quite unacceptable, for them to be attributed to a senior police officer is very damaging.
Which thing before we take in hand, perhaps it will not be unacceptable to the reader, if we describe the sea of Gennesaret, and the places adjoining, by some kind of delineation, according to their situation, which we take up from the From the Talmud and Hebraica
It is therefore quite inappropriate and unacceptable for Mrs Hull to condemn this group.
‘This is unacceptable and a gross waste of effort,’ he said.
Both defended the right of Israel to exist, both condemned the violence, but Benedict XVI spoke in precise terms of the Two States; he even said that the security barrier is unacceptable and that Jerusalem has to be the capital of both States. Islam
To your English upper class, industry and trade are symbols of gross Philistinism, boring crassness, unmannerly usury, unacceptable. GOTHIC PURSUIT
One class of drugs used to treat obesity today belongs to amphetamines (dextroamphetamine – Dexedrine), which are potent stimulants and can cause unacceptable tachycardia and hypertension. SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles - Part 1066
An unacceptable love needs no sorrow but time- sometime for forgetting.A badly-hurt heart needs no sympathy but understanding.
She was fraternizing with a member of the band and it's unacceptable.
The whole glib tone of this, the truly jingoistic and arrogant belligerence would be totally unacceptable.
Capital punishment seemed an unacceptable relic of monarchical governments, out of place in a republic.
The agency has told Harrogate Council that the 11-acre site beside the River Ure is within an undefended area and the risk of flooding is unacceptable.
Manchester still suffers from urban blight and unacceptable poverty.
• The major claim currently being canvassed by the incoming Republican House majority is that federal spending must now be cut quickly and significantly -- a cut of $100 billion is regularly cited -- in order both to stimulate private-sector economic growth and to free future generations from an unacceptable level of federal debt. David Coates: Sanity in a Time of Madness
This is completely and utterly unacceptable. The Residue Report - an action plan for safer food
An unholy alliance with other minorities to preserve ideological positions otherwise unacceptable to the electorate does not appeal as a noble enterprise.
Of all the cruel practices of slavery, Douglass considers the fate of his grandmother most unacceptable.
Forcing everyone to disrobe and be probed is likely going to be unacceptable to many non-Muslim Americans. Source: WH considers Friday incident attempted terrorist attack
It was all unacceptable, more than a disgrace, to attempt to speak those words to his lashless, browless eye. THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
That, to me, is totally unacceptable and morally indefensible.
This time his mischievous side has taken him down a more unacceptable road. Times, Sunday Times
Brat Pitt is an unacceptable celebrity because he's a democrat, but not running for election, and she is acceptable ... because she's republican .... nice. McMahon says WWE antics not a liability to Senate run
That this is a positive stereotype makes it no less a stereotype, and therefore unacceptable.
In addition, thanks to medicine's success in curing disease and forestalling death, it is not clear that we haven't produced a culture in which death is even more unacceptable and more feared than ever before.
It is unacceptable that a department would gazump a voluntary body.
Deficiency of potassium base foods in the diet increases the net systemic acid load of the diet, whether the deficiency is due to the acid load contributed by grain-based foods or by protein intake………Frassetto and his colleagues argue that any level of acidosis may be unacceptable from an evolutionary perspective and that a low-grade metabolic alkalosis may be the optimal acid/base state for humans….. 6-Week Cure blog idea | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.
this is ethically unacceptable
During that period of yen weakness, according to Roach, China let it be known that a 135 yen/dollar rate was unacceptable and threatened to devalue the renminbi should the yen weakness continue.
His creased brown skin throbbed with muscle, he was a hobgoblin, and failure was unacceptable in goblin society.
To call this possibility a tragedy is an unacceptable understatement. “noob” can’t be the millionth word « Motivated Grammar
In a country which aims to be a member of the European Union it is unacceptable to let minorities suffer discrimination including the discrimination based on sexual orientation," said Michael Cashman, president of the all-party 'intergroup' on gay and lesbian rights. PageOneQ.com Latest
Depending on who the line manager was, you could be disciplined for not wearing it, and that was unacceptable.
That pronunciation is unacceptable in the south of Britain.
Such a pessimistic view of a place once described as a paradise is unacceptable.
The destruction of bogland either inside the Conservation area or outside of it is unacceptable to the Society for a number of reasons. 18 « September « 2008 « Stephen Rees's blog
One, when a law exists, is promulgated, which is totally unacceptable to people and they violate it again and again and again till it's rescinded, appealed. Sproul Hall Sit-In Address
He said the number of people unable to afford a home was rising to unacceptable levels.
I find the consistently derogatory comments about the people who ride motorcycles totally unacceptable.
What does each person think is unacceptable behaviour? Times, Sunday Times
They said they just felt that the explicit depiction of sexual activity and nudity was unacceptable.
It is totally unacceptable for children to swear.
McDowell develops a stringent reading of Sellars 'diagnosis of a "myth of the given" in perceptual experience to argue that we need always to separate out the exercise of concepts in experience from a causal account of the pre-conditions of experience and that the idea of "non-conceptual content" straddles this boundary in a philosophically unacceptable way. Backing Into an Evidentiary Standard for ID
For some people such a situation might be unacceptable or even an impossible state of affairs.
Back in the eighties when the money was flowing, the place stank of evil and unacceptable moral standards, pretty much like today, except that the economy is in the toilet.
Infuriated by what he calls a treacherous and unacceptable provocation from the diplomatic mission, Cuban communist leader, Fidel Castro began building his response a few days later. CNN Transcript Feb 6, 2006
The company claims the wage rise is totally unacceptable and has refused to lift the lockout until the union ends all industrial action.
My mother said that this behaviour was unacceptable. The Tribes Triumphant
Any taking of hostages is unacceptable and must be firmly opposed by the international community.
It is easy to excuse incompetence, it is unacceptable to pardon impropriety.
Demonstrating that a virus isolated from a human cancer can cause further cancers in other humans is clearly an unacceptable experiment!
It was also an unacceptable form of backland development within the area and would be intrusive to the back view enjoyed by nearby homes.
The Modular Causeway System provides a means to move cargo from the ship to shore across unimproved beaches in areas of the world where fixed port facilities are unavailable, denied or otherwise unacceptable.
During her opening remarks she called the "bloodshed completely unacceptable. World leaders, U.S. political heavyweights react to unrest in Libya
To stoop so low is not only unacceptable but also beyond belief,' he wrote. Times, Sunday Times
To refuse to accept unacceptable behaviour. Positive Parent Power
Until recently, surgical treatment implied permanent ileostomy, a prospect unacceptable to many patients.
The leader spoke out against ‘crimes of honor,’ specifically the murder of a woman by her husband whom she had allegedly dishonored by immodest or otherwise unacceptable behavior.
She told the industry in blunt terms that such discrimination is totally unacceptable.

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