A policeman returning to apprehend church board - that's OK?

Usage examples of acceptable.

Any picture would have been acceptable to them, and that day many of them even went far afield to obtain a copy of that newspaper.

As a result one may aggress towards objects as an acceptable outlet of the aggression.

As always, our point is that a double standard should not be employed in the evaluation of paleoanthropological evidencean impossibly strict standard for anomalous evidence and an exceedingly lenient standard for acceptable evidence.

Eleventh Month, 1846, to the First Month, 1847, they were occupied in a religious visit to the families of the members and attenders of Gracechurch-street Monthly Meeting, in which their service was very acceptable.

This was a measure designed to root out the Catholic heresy of Jansenism, which took a much more austere view of salvation than the acceptable norm, and which had adherents at high levels of the Parlements, especially in Paris.

One acceptable form of authentication uses a digital electronic lock that requires an employee to swipe his employee badge and enter an access code.

They consider a Cecropia or a Polyphemus an insult, and a Luna is barely acceptable.

But for those women who share the fantasy - such as Cokie Roberts, apparently - gun control may provide a convenient and socially acceptable metaphor for an otherwise taboo act.

Blanche Creamer, and incidentally to show Elsie that he could make himself acceptable to other women, if not to herself.

She had allowed Dagon to disrupt her emotionally, and that was not acceptable behavior for a witch of her capacity.

New Englanders also favored New York, it being much the easiest location for them to reach, though Philadelphia, adamantly espoused by the Pennsylvanians, was considered an acceptable alternative.

Why is it that people feel that revenge is justified, and acceptable, and that one is hot-blooded and human to undertake it, yet that to quietly prevent it is cold-blooded and ruthless-even if, in the end, far fewer souls suffer?

They had been ages working out how you put recognisable hearts, diamonds, clubs and spades on each as a motif, but between radishes and black olives as fiddly little decorations they had come up with something acceptable.

The memory of the incest case fuelled his private anger against a society that did not approve of what he, and his father, saw as perfectly acceptable behavior, their own version of family love.

Astronomical discoveries and speculations seemed for a time to afford some warrant for this view, which was, moreover, an acceptable substitute for the abandoned geocentric theory in minds that could only conceive of God as a superhuman artificer, constantly admiring his own work.