Sentence examples for allowing a situation from inspiring English sources

"The court officers have as part of their responsibility the job of not even allowing a situation that may be unpleasant".

Since we have not learned to adjust our response, we often act on impulse allowing a situation to lapse into fight or flight.

We cannot allow a situation where the parents shouting for grammar schools will always win.

"But we've allowed a situation where neighbours will remain strangers because there's so much instability.

He added: "I do not think we, as a country, should allow a situation where women's lives are put at risk in this way.

"We have allowed a situation where people are coming from Angola, and we don't even really know how many of them there are.

We have allowed a situation to develop that would be wholly unacceptable in the US as well as the vast majority of other western democracies.

"We can't allow a situation to continue in which Australian infrastructure is predominantly built with foreign steel," AWU national secretary Scott McDine said.

Yesterday it was Danzig, today it is Donetsk: we cannot allow a situation where Europe will be living again for many decades with an open and bleeding wound.

On the field, Giambi is a defensive liability, a fact illuminated when Nick Johnson was anchored on first base as much as the 2003 playoffs would allow, a situation revisited when George Steinbrenner snarled at Giambi's most recent first-base lapses.

This is the highest-profile trial of a radicalised Islamic terrorist on US soil in the post-9/11 era, and the government does not want to allow a situation where Tsarnaev could take a plea deal.