Some countries and states have passed legislation regarding acceptable nurse-to-patient ratios.

War for lebensraum was justified by this need to reestablish an acceptable ratio between land and people.

In 1983, officials at the International Olympic Committee set a limit of 6 to 1 as the acceptable upper ratio.

"We've had a handful of accidents so far, but certainly an acceptable ratio, considering the number and variety of nonstandard civilian vessels we've incorporated into the EDF."

A drug test taken in November at a World Cup competition showed a higher than acceptable ratio of testosterone to epitestosterone, a related chemical, an Olympic official said.

The court said the ratio of $500 in punitive damages to each $1 of compensatory damages was too big, but it did not specify an acceptable ratio.

But don't move ahead on the assumption that it is a sound investment with an acceptable risk-reward ratio.

That is an acceptable ratio.

We also need to define together an acceptable ratio between costs and risk - the so-called 'tolerable risk of error'.