The sport really hasn’t changed, but the world did. That’s why it’s more acceptable.
The Senate is allowed to work the way it was designed to – meaning a place where nothing is decided without a good dose of deliberation and debate, as well as input from both the majority and minority parties – it arrives at a result that is acceptable to people all along the political spectrum.
It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a ‘good African woman’ and as a highly educated elitist who was trying to show innocent African women ways of doing things that were not acceptable to African men.
It didn’t matter as much because I’m a singer, not an actress, but my face is more acceptable in a way now than when I first came on the scene, because I’m part black.
Certainly Roseanne Barr has power, but it seems like it’s more acceptable to be heavy if you’re lower middle class and blue collar.
If two people cannot live together, both should have the right to opt out of the marriage. In an ideal world, that would be an acceptable solution.
It is acceptable to have no eyeliner, but mascara is a must.
Repression and intimidation are not – and never should be – the acceptable companions of reform.
The relationship between renewable energy sources and the communities we expect to host them must be appropriate and sustainable and, above all, acceptable to local people.
If you’re going to wake up early all the time, and you’re working hard, and you’re working out, sometimes you’re going to get tired. It’s OK. It’s acceptable – somewhat. We’re all human, unfortunately.
When women are seen on TV being crass or funny or making jokes or undercutting someone, then you feel it’s socially acceptable for a woman to do that. More women are growing up feeling, ‘I can speak my mind and say what I want.’
Arranged marriages are big business in the U.K. Second- and third-generation immigrant families, with no extended family structure, limited networks and religious restrictions on acceptable ways to meet future spouses, are turning to external matchmakers for help.
‘Star Trek’ put sci-fi on the map and changed television, and ‘Battlestar’ has changed it in another direction by making it a little more mainstream and acceptable to people who wouldn’t normally watch sci-fi.
This practice of skinny actresses donning fat suits is essentially the new and acceptable blackface in Hollywood.
Political correctness may make for smooth edges, but it does little for the imagination and nothing for the arts. Writers work best when they are exploring at the outer limits of what is traditional, acceptable, or conventional.
Being an indie queen, people think I have all these choices. Like I’ve just been sitting around waiting for the best indie film that I deem acceptable.
For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.
It’s never acceptable to target civilians. It violates the Geneva Accords, it violates the international law of war and it violates all principles of morality.
If our minds were originally formed by nature in a sound and useful manner, then they pass on all the forces of fate, which imposes on us from outside in a relatively unobjectionable and more acceptable way.
I eat meat, but no meat that isn’t pastured is acceptable, and we probably need to eat a whole lot less.
What’s great about games in particular is that it’s a socially acceptable way for adults to imagine.
No one’s conception of art is going to be acceptable to everybody.
Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.
Concealed handgun licenses contain all of the identifying information required by the TSA. It is time they recognize these licenses as acceptable forms of identification.
I could go on a long rant about how much I despise e-mail. I wish it was more socially acceptable to ignore people.
When Welwyn Garden City was planned, the workers homes were placed in the east, downwind from the factories in the middle, whilst the bosses got the larger westside homes in Handside. This sort of social engineering, including the absence of a pub, would not be acceptable today.
I would like to make a building as intellectually driven as it is sculptural and as positive as it would be acceptable to hope.
There are some extremely acceptable male comedians out there: Joel Osteen, Abraham Lincoln, the man who played Phil Spector in HBO’s ‘Phil Spector.’ But even those guys, while insightful and amusing, aren’t exactly funny.
I make no apology for the fact I like to hear people talk about work. It’s the acceptable way of talking about life and people.
In the history of postwar German writing, for the first 15 or 20 years, people avoided mentioning political persecution – the incarceration and systematic extermination of whole peoples and groups in society. Then, from 1965, this became a preoccupation of writers – not always in an acceptable form.
A collective tyrant, spread over the length and breadth of the land, is no more acceptable than a single tyrant ensconced on his throne.
My parents gave us all a chance to accomplish our goals,and I was blessed with that – I was lucky with that – and I learnt at a very young age that anything less than my best wasn’t acceptable.
I remember being a kid and seeing the ‘National Inquirer’ at the grocery store checkout line. When somebody actually picked up a copy, it was mortifying. You felt dirty for them. But now it’s perfectly acceptable to read something like that. There’s absolutely no taboo surrounding that kind of exploitation.
If you’re going to wake up early all the time, and you’re working hard, and you’re working out, sometimes you’re going to get tired. It’s OK. It’s acceptable – somewhat. We’re all human, unfortunately.
You can never protect yourself 100%. What you do is protect yourself as much as possible and mitigate risk to an acceptable degree. You can never remove all risk.
I can’t tell the people of India that we’ll burden you with high costs because the West has polluted the world, now India will pay for it. Not acceptable to us.
I was a taskmaster: hyperdirect and critical without finesse. I’d practically yell at people when frustrated and thought that was acceptable because that’s what my idols did – Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg.
Death is acceptable only if it represents the physically necessary passage toward a union, the condition of a metamorphosis.
I personally think that it is acceptable if I take a step forward and can act with more diverse expressions and feelings.
Repression and intimidation are not – and never should be – the acceptable companions of reform.
Personally, I don’t think it is acceptable to manipulate the human germline for the purpose of changing some genetic traits that will be transmitted over generations.
It is no longer acceptable to ignore the suffering, and designers must take responsibility for the way that their fur is produced.
I felt inferior. I had this tremendous need to perform. I wanted to be acceptable to my peers. I thought if I could just be a big star, I’d feel like somebody, too.
If the airline industry were to evolve a common fitness standard for both male and female employees, that would not just be acceptable, it would be entirely desirable.
What I said about John was that he liberated me from my anxieties about writing in a correct, acceptable way.
It’s horrible how money and fame can make you acceptable while, if you’re not famous or rich, you’re not acceptable.
Pushing the boundaries of what’s acceptable – to me, that’s something I’m definitely interested in and want to pursue.
We have never believed that any potential future benefits from fracking make it acceptable for the government to bulldoze over the concerns of local communities or the very real environmental dangers that can occur as a result of weak safeguards controlling the technical process.
I had a great time investigating the pigments of different mutant fruit flies by following experimental protocols published in Scientific American, and I also remember making my own beetle collection when it was still acceptable to make such collections.
I think the only way to behave is as if nothing is private. And then fight to make what you care about legal and acceptable.
I grew up in the ’60s and ’70s, where it was still acceptable to say, ‘Well, you’re not academic, so that’s fine, you’ll do it some other way.’
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.
For too long, I think the African-American community has been taken for granted by one party and completely ignored by the other. It is not acceptable. It’s not good for the parties, for the country, or for the community.
The whole Valentine’s thing is fine, but you don’t back it up right next to the biggest gift-giving holiday of the year. Unbelievable. And we find it acceptable.
The course that I have uniformly pursued, ever since I became a missionary, has been rather peculiar. In order to become an acceptable and eloquent preacher in a foreign language, I deliberately abjured my own. When I crossed the river, I burnt my ships.
