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be permitting
verb
To hand over, resign (something to someone).
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'We must be mad, literally mad,' Powell declared, voice rising and eyes glowering, 'as a nation to be permitting the annual inflow of some 50,000 dependants.
In other words, by circumscribing the limits of criminal aggression, the world would seem to be permitting all that lay outside those limits.
We must be mad, literally mad, as a nation to be permitting the annual inflow of some 50,000 dependents, who are for the most part the material of the future growth of the immigrant descended population.
Since it is likely that, in the midst of battle, these two groups will share their munitions, Washington will be permitting advanced weaponry to be handed over to its deadliest enemy.
We hope the bill will be gutted and will come back as a proportionate and effective response to the terrorist threat … It undermines our ability to catch people who are a genuine threat to our country because we will be permitting the security forces, services, to look at data that in reality is of little interest".
"Immigration can be the greatest political vote loser for the Labour Party if one seems to be permitting a flood of immigrants to come," noted Richard Crossman, a Labour minister, in his diary in February 1965, during a time of heightened anxiety about new arrivals.
Similar(48)
This could not be permitted.
Will that be permitted?
Lasix will be permitted on race day.
Should Guns Be Permitted on College Campuses?
This unequal treatment should not be permitted.
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