prove acceptable
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The repugnant proposal to permit States to dispense liquor will never prove acceptable.
From Time Magazine Archive
The challenge will be whether his vision--"a community of mutual respect and interdependence"--will prove acceptable to the basement revolutionaries and the Vatican enforcers at the same time.
From Time Magazine Archive
Outgoing Transport Minister Pierre Mehaignerie and former European Parliament President Simone Veil hinted at possible support for a Socialist government in the future if its policies prove acceptable.
From Time Magazine Archive
Nor did the ‘melancholy’ one prove acceptable even to the judgment of Georges Sand, when that intellectual lady set to work to ‘arrange’ the play for the French stage.
From By-ways in Book-land Short Essays on Literary Subjects by Adams, William Davenport
Dayānand’s attempt to found a sect which, while not going entirely outside Hinduism, should prove acceptable to educated Hindus desiring a purer faith, appears to have been distinctly successful.
From The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV) by Russell, R. V. (Robert Vane)
