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acceptable

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“You're terrorising people, children, for some money, and I don't think in any society that is in any way acceptable”.

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Scotland's Women’s Health Minister Jenni Minto said excessively long waits were not acceptable and more money was going towards women's health.

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Sociologist Anna Kuleshova argues that violence is becoming more acceptable in Russian society, especially because criminals can now escape punishment by going to war.

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"There's no world in which you could have a robust environmental assessment that takes into account those downstream emissions and decide that those environmental impacts are acceptable," she told me.

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This included people who believed cannabis use wouldn't interfere with their responsibilities, or it was considered socially acceptable, so they would continue their consumption patterns.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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