Sentence examples for can be permissible from inspiring English sources

But he takes a slightly more pragmatic view on contraception, believing that it can be permissible to prevent the spread of disease.

The notion that in-depth analysis can be permissible was endorsed by the Supreme Court, which pointed out that it "is necessary to the preservation of a healthy market".

To be sure, under the Americans With Disabilities Act, disability inquiries can be permissible to assess applicants' fitness for licensure if, for example, they pose a "direct threat to the health or safety of others".

I didn't think Harriet was looking for a rabbinic ruling — we do everything we can to save a life, but when death is inevitable, it can be permissible to do nothing.

The Morality of Self-Defense Traditional theorists seek to justify their extraordinary claim — that those who fight and kill in an unjust war never do wrong provided they kill in accordance with the rules — by appealing to the familiar idea that, while it is not permissible to attack people who are innocent, it can be permissible to attack and kill those who are noninnocent.

In my view, forcible post-war regime change can be permissible provided: 1) the war itself was just and conducted properly; 2) the target regime was illegitimate, thus forfeiting its state rights; 3) the goal of the reconstruction is a minimally just regime; and 4) respect for jus in bello and human rights is integral to the transformation process itself.

Plainly, this unpatriotic conduct can only be permissible for good anti-Europeans like himself.

Grab my arm, eject me from my village, then sell my goods and properties, such a thing can never be permissible.

Even if a tripronuclear zygote has the same moral status as a human embryo, and even if this status rules out the creation of embryos for use in research (both claims we might plausibly deny), it can arguably still be permissible to destroy embryos that were originally created for reproductive purposes but which are no longer needed for that purpose.

Rule-consequentialism is accused of incoherence for maintaining that an act can be morally permissible or even required though the act fails to maximise expected good.

Perhaps conscription of youth for military service in a just war can be morally permissible, but only if compensation is paid to those coerced into this arduous and dangerous service.