Sentence examples for are barely permitted from inspiring English sources

As the Boston Globe put it, Block Island needs this visit "like a fish needs a bicycle".It is a hard business, being a president: you are barely permitted a holiday, then every swish of your putter or swirl of your rod is monitored, and when you decide to pop into somewhere nice everyone condemns you for it.

One woman who has been heavily controlled by her husband since their marriage and has just begun to experience violence is barely permitted to leave the marital home.

One of industry's greatest concerns about the new regulations is the uncertainty in getting permits for new or expanded facilities in counties that are barely compliant, Gershman says.

They are barely profitable".

Some are barely vignettes.

"We are barely living".

Such words are barely reassuring.

Their careers are barely mentioned.

Their wings are barely clipped.

Americans are barely scraping by.

(2) The photos are barely taken outdoors.