Sentence examples for a permissive definition from inspiring English sources

But Mr. Patten was indirectly critical of the United States over disclosures of aggressive prisoner interrogation options set out by Bush administration lawyers, including an August 2002 Justice Department memo that appeared to offer a permissive definition of torture.

But the White House counsel, Alberto R. Gonzales, told reporters on Tuesday that Mr. Bush never considered more aggressive options set out by administration lawyers, including those in an August 2002 Justice Department memo that appeared to offer a permissive definition of torture.

Using a permissive definition of matching in which we included strains that differed by 1 spoligotype spacer to be matched, we estimated that 10 (10%) of households had distinct MDR isolates and showed evidence of repeated introduction.

For example, if we accept a permissive definition of regularity (eg, by requiring at least one contact every 3 months) then our study is able to generate significant evidence, admitted that discontinuers experience the outcome at least 1.8-fold more than regulars (with an error of the first type of 5% and a power of 80%).

In contrast, King asserts that privacy interests require a less permissive definition of exigent circumstances.

This permissive definition lacks specificity in intervention content, a characteristic also reflected in two definitions offered by Nick Heather, a key architect of contemporary thinking on brief interventions.

A tree trained using this definition contained many of the substructures present in the original tree and was similarly predictive of activity in independent assays despite the exclusion of 75% of compounds defined as active under the more permissive definition of activity (Fig. S9).

As a result of the given definition of citizenship and its broader context, the US adopts a permissive approach to plural citizenship as well.

They need a permissive document.

In 1909, under a permissive statute, 35 Stat.

And finally, there was (and is) a permissive legal environment.