He was permitted to settle in England, where he remained until his death.
In the late seventies, after the Cultural Revolution, when the first American correspondents were permitted to settle in the country, China was so exotic that practically everything was news.
Marked "UK/Libya Eyes Only – Secret", it explains that members of the LIFG had been permitted to settle in the UK in the 1990s.
Ten years before Bouchar's abduction and rendition, many of her husband's associates had been permitted to settle in Britain.
Another species of table altogether is on display in a cosmopolitan New York office, where Aerin Lauder Zinterhofer, a vice president in Estée Lauder's cosmetics empire, rules over perfectly ordered museum-of-modern-art interiors, and where no dust is permitted to settle.
Mostly, though, as Peter Ackroyd observed in his life-loving London: The Biography, "despite violent acts inspired by demagoguery and financial panic, the immigrant communities of the city have generally been permitted to settle down, engage with their neighbours in trade, adopt English as their native language, intermarry and bring up their children as Londoners".
As the century progressed, more and more barbarians (Latin: barbari) were permitted to settle inside of, and tasked with aiding in the defence of, Rome's borders.
Sponge debris was permitted to settle before the cell-containing supernatant fluid was removed.
Shouldn't the Sri Lankan government be permitted to showcase their achievements in settling violent conflict on an island that once gave the world a term for "happy accident" or "pleasant surprise," though there is little serendipity for those who fail to stay on the side of the government there.
