Such figures are "unacceptable and a terrible indictment of our performance, " Barroso told the council.

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"It is clear that our current level of profitability is unacceptable and we need to improve our performance, " Mack said in a statement.

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The mission's own force commander, however, blasted its performance as "totally and utterly unacceptable" after a 2003 episode in which an armed group killed 563 civilians, according to U.N. records.

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It should be viewed as an unacceptable risk for the West to strengthen Soviet economic performance before reforms are shown to be irreversible and to have substantially altered the threat.

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Chief inspector Sir Michael Wilshaw says the performance gap between some areas is "completely unacceptable".

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