#acceptable

Last year, customs officials screened only five percent of the 11 million cargo containers entering the United States. That rate is both unacceptable and dangerous to our national and economic interests. ↗

— Allyson Schwartz

#cargo #containers #customs #dangerous #economic

We have to challenge the whole idea that it's acceptable for a society like Britain to have such a significant number of people who do not work one day of the week and don't have any possibility of improving the quality of their lives. ↗

— Iain Duncan Smith

#any #britain #challenge #day #idea

I think one of the basic tasks in life - one of the nice things we can do for each other - is to take things that are horrible and scary and make them acceptable and less frightening and, if possible, funny. It feels great to succeed at that. ↗

— Julia Sweeney

#basic #each #feels #frightening #funny

Even the National Bank of Romania doesn't have the huge resources needed to intervene in the market and keep the leu at an acceptable level, because they're drawing close to a floor below which the bank's reserves can't drop. The central bank has to wait for a moment of calm to efficiently conduct its interventions. ↗

— Traian Basescu

#bank #because #below #calm #central

Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and swept along by every wind of teaching, look like the only attitude acceptable to today's standards. ↗

— Joseph Ratzinger

#along #attitude #based #church #clear

I do everything I think possible or acceptable to escape from this trap. ↗

— Jacques Derrida

#escape #everything #i #i do #i think

John Paul II made it clear that... liberation theology based on the teaching of Jesus Christ was necessary, but liberation theology that used a Marxist analysis was unacceptable. ↗

— Claudio Hummes

#based #christ #clear #ii #jesus

It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially. ↗

— Lauren Bacall

#anything #commercially #inappropriate #life #private

To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one. ↗

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#even #flattering #poet #response #silence

Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it's not acceptable. ↗

— Jodie Foster

#cruelty #cultural #human #might #very