Sentence examples for be permitted to act from inspiring English sources

Authority asking that his brother be permitted to act as his proxy in making the first passage through the Lincoln Tunnel.

In cases of a high potential benefit we may sometimes even be permitted to act supererogatorily rather than do our duty (Kamm 1985).

No longer able to dictate that others must act in accord with their religious beliefs, they now demand that they be permitted to act in accord with their own beliefs.

While there, he tired of endless westerns and was permitted to act elsewhere.

"The ordinary man believes he is free when he is permitted to act arbitrarily, but in this very arbitrariness lies the fact that he is unfree," Hegel wrote.

The real error of the court's federalism decisions is that "the states are permitted to act unjustly" behind the shield of sovereign immunity.

They were permitted to act as though they were the heads of independent states (which seems to have fooled Gerald Ford, at least), and to play, cautiously, on nationalist and ethnic sentiments, particularly anti-Semitism.

"That's been the problem here, the police officers who are inclined toward abuses are permitted to act with impunity," said Mr. Loevy, who is also involved with the effort to release the list of officers' names.

Bloomberg remains the majority shareholder in Bloomberg LP, the financial data service he launched three decades ago, and is permitted to act as an advisor on strategic matters while mayor.

She says the course works both ways, also helping aboriginal families like the Fergusons understand more about how the RCMP works: where officers are permitted to act using their discretion, and where they are not.

Yet it does appear to be part of an atmosphere in which Lauer was permitted to act in ways that made women uncomfortable, and it's clear they had little power to change the situation.