Sentence examples similar to Permissible answer from inspiring English sources

It's entirely permissible to answer: both.

Nor is it permissible to answer "17" on the grounds that "I have children ⊃ I have 17 children" is true.

One of the questions was: "If Leigh Steinberg approaches you with an offer of financial assistance or wants you to sign a contract with him while you still have eligibility, is that permissible?" The answer is that the example could only occur in an alternative universe since I spent 37 years scrupulously avoiding such behavior.

Permissible Acts, Unjust War?

If Congress has not "directly spoken to the precise question at issue" and if the "intent of Congress is [not] clear," the courts must ask only "whether the agency's answer is based on a permissible construction of the statute".

So after a year of prepping for the SAT, Ms. Rodeo got a copy of the "Real ACT" guide and started in on ACT strategies (guessing permissible; only the SAT deducts for wrong answers).

"And is it permissible to kill them?" A few weeks later, an answer came from a man with a $25 million bounty on his head, Ayman al-Zawahiri.

The Making Inferences subtest of the Test of Language Competence [Pragmatics; Wiig et al., 1989] involves participants being read a description of an event; they are then asked to make a permissible inference about the cause of the event by answering a multiple-choice question about the causes of the event.

'No.' " Mr. Cruz replied that he was glad that "after much gymnastics," he had obtained a clear answer that such a strike would not be legally permissible.

In interviews, former senior intelligence officials said C.I.A. lawyers went to extraordinary lengths beginning in March 2002 to get a clear answer from the Justice Department about which interrogation techniques were permissible in questioning Abu Zubaydah and other important detainees.

It is also permissible to take questions and offer to follow up with an answer later if it's complicated.