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• a  worthy of acceptance or satisfactory
  acceptable levels of radiation
  performances varied from acceptable to excellent
• s  judged to be in conformity with approved usage
  acceptable English usage
• s  meeting requirements
• s  adequate for the purpose
  the water was acceptable for drinking

• In La Oroya, a mining town in the Peruvian Andes, 99% of children have blood levels that exceed acceptable limits, thanks to an American-owned smelter that has been polluting .
• Basically, it sets acceptable exposure levels for humans by determining the lowest level that is harmful to lab animals and then reducing that amount by a series of extrapolating .
• A 24-year-old Brooklyn musician named Michael Gregory has combined a number of evening news broadcast clips and turned them into a vaguely acceptable faux RB series called Auto .

• satisfactory

• unacceptable

News & Articles

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• Turban Ban Ending in Quebec
  Quebec’s soccer federation is ending its much-criticized turban ban. The organization made the announcement one day after FIFA said wearing turbans on the field was acceptable.
  June 15, 2013 - New York Times
• Riverview East move put on hold
  When is it acceptable to circumvent the process? That was the question the East China Board of Education was faced with on June 10 when Trustee Amy Murphy made a motion to move Riverview East High School into the East China Education Center in St. Clair before the start of the 2013-14 school year.
  June 15, 2013 - The Voice
• FIFA rules male players can wear turbans
  FIFA has ruled male head covers are acceptable to wear during matches, a decision that goes against the ban on turbans imposed by the sport's provincial governing body in Quebec.
  June 14, 2013 - Sports Illustrated

Quotes

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• Barack Obama in FOXNews
  This was not a failure to collect intelligence. It was a failure to integrate and understand the intelligence that we already had,Obama said. "That's not acceptable, and I will not tolerate it."
• Jeff Sessions in Los Angeles Times
  Sessions said he would not support a nominee "who believes it is acceptable for a judge to allow their personal background, gender, prejudices to sway their decision in favor of, or against, parties before the court."
• John McCain in AFP
  This is something that all of us will swallow hard and go forward with. The option of doing nothing is simply not an acceptable option,McCain said.