Sentence examples for barely permitted to from inspiring English sources

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.

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

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

Business could barely contain its rejoicing, the polls soared, the country was permitted to think beyond the cartoonish black and white propositions of the Abbott era.

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.

China was not permitted to interfere.

I haven't been permitted to concentrate.

Junior monks are not permitted to read.

"I am not permitted to gamble".

Here characters are permitted to use words like sophistry, and the belief in the viewer's own sophistication is so intact that cameos by people like the Democratic strategist Joe Trippi barely carry any exposition.