The phrase "a permissible exercise of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing legality, authority, or appropriateness of an action or decision.
Example: "The court ruled that the new policy was a permissible exercise of the government's regulatory authority."
Alternatives: "an acceptable use of" or "a valid application of".
This was, it said, a permissible exercise of discretion and one subject to tightening over time.
This rule was "a permissible exercise of the agency's discretion," the Richmond judges said.
The killing of women, children and Muslim men, however, has proved harder to explain away as a permissible exercise of jihad.
The judges in Virginia, by contrast, sided with the IRS, explaining: "we uphold the rule as a permissible exercise of the agency's discretion".The resulting confusion should leave Republicans elated.
The appeals court in Virginia sided with the IRS, explaining, "we uphold the rule as a permissible exercise of the agency's discretion".The current confusion will surely leave Republicans elated.
In his opinion for the Court, Chief Justice Roberts upheld the individual mandate, but only on the ground that it was a permissible exercise of Congress's power to tax.
Is it a morally permissible exercise of mercy for a governor to commute the death sentences of everyone on a state's death row, as Governor Ryan recently did in Illinois?
[n5] Thus, even if I were [p594] to agree that commercial speech is entitled to some First Amendment protection, I would hold here that the State's decision to ban promotional advertising, in light of the substantial state interest at stake, is a constitutionally permissible exercise of its power to adopt regulations designed to promote the interests of its citizens.
It would, indeed, be a permissible exercise in dialectic to prove here conclusively and inclusively, if we had the time, that good Bad Verse has an eerie, supernal beauty comparable in its accidents with the beauty of Good Verse...
Like Kant, the new natural law account of marriage focuses on the permissible exercise of sexual attributes; following Aquinas, it emphasizes the goods of marriage, which new natural lawyers, notably John Finnis (cf. George 2000, Grisez 1993, Lee 2008), identify as reproduction and fides roughly, marital friendship (see entry on The Natural Law Tradition in Ethics).
According to that movement, attempts by the state or by the medical profession to interfere with suicidal behavior are essentially coercive attempts to pathologize morally permissible exercises of individual freedom (Szasz 2002).
