prove acceptable
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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
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
The repugnant proposal to permit States to dispense liquor will never prove acceptable.
From Time Magazine Archive
He would be happy himself to serve, or even to take the initiative in its accomplishment, in any way that might prove acceptable, but he has no desire to determine the method or the instrumentality.
From My Three Years in America by Bernstorff, Johann Heinrich Andreas Hermann Albrecht Graf von
Mr. Nicholls’s successor did not prove acceptable to Mr. Brontë.
From Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle by Shorter, Clement King
