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  • n  unsatisfactoriness by virtue of not conforming to approved standards

  • Yet 62% say they perceive him as a "wheeler-dealer," and that contributes heavily to his overall unacceptability.
  • For two years, from late 1981 until the end of 1983, Soviet negotiators hammered away at the unacceptability of any new American deployments.
  • It is important to us, while we indicate the unacceptability of certain kinds of behavior to the Soviets, to stay engaged in a dialogue to see whether it is not possible to .
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  • Peter Garrett in Sydney Morning Herald
    The images that we've seen that include US forces are deeply disturbing, both because of the fundamental unacceptability of what they depicted and because the actions by US military personnel in those photos do not in any way represent the values... Donald Rumsfeld http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Rumsfeld&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGXrTd_F-Iu38fhrHF5Y_56FtfGTA Atlanta Journal Constitution http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/ajc/bookman/entries/2008/07/02/rumsfelds_torturous_defense.html&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGxLHi6Fjm9p3E3ReZeSDFA2B92rg Jul 2, 2008 103279 137045 unacceptability Celebrity turned politician Peter Garrett, the federal Labor MP for Kingsford Smith, said the group was delivering a message about the unacceptability of violence (and) the necessity for us to embrace respect and tolerance".
  • Sergei Ivanov in RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
    Ivanov said the situations in Georgia's breakaway republics of South Ossetia and Abkhazia "proved the unacceptability of use of radical military means to settle a conflict and demonstrated the importance of dialogue and the search for solutions that...

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