Sentence examples for barely permitted from inspiring English sources

The petrified McCain team has, wisely, barely permitted Palin to speak in public.

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.

At first, under the guiding hand of the local investigator, Colonel Faris Al Ghazi (Ashraf Barhom), the agents are largely confined to their quarters and barely permitted to disturb the crime scene.

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.

Two hundred acres barely permits the word "prairie," which, in the American experience, implies a horizonwide stretch of grassland.

Because of Mao, the authors write, "freed from parental and social restraints, youths... had been unleashed to perpetrate assault, battery and murder upon their fellow citizens to the extent their barely formed consciences permitted".

If the father does not take at least two months, the government pays for only 12. Her aim was to give incentive to women to forgo part of the permitted, barely paid three-year maternity leave, often seen as an impediment to a career, and to encourage men to share in child care.

Their barely regulated planning systems permitted the creation of property bubbles that trashed the economy along with the land.

So far this year, the Department of Buildings has issued barely 50 demolition permits in Community District 13, down from 143 last year.

It has leased 13,000 square feet of abandoned warehouse, though it is currently permitted to use barely two-thirds of it.

I burst into barely suppressed laughter, which was not permitted at Parris Island lectures.