Sentence examples for could have permitted from inspiring English sources
In other words, to ask how the gods could have permitted Trump's resurrection is to mistake profound superficiality for profundity, performance art for serious drama.
As the bereaved, we ask because we want to know if a loved one suffered or was at peace, or if her death was meaningful, or whether we could have prevented it, or how the universe could have permitted it.
Such a failure by the 12-foot rubber O rings and putty surrounding them to form a tight seal could have permitted heat from the burning solid fuel to escape and ignite the blast.
Mr. Waxman has not spelled out what, precisely, the government could have done, and a senior aide said today that the congressman's staff was researching what authority the regulators actually have that could have permitted them to intervene.
Mr. Donaldson said he was sympathetic to arguments put forward by the Business Roundtable that the original proposal could have permitted investors to approve directors who represented narrow special interests.
"I have spent day after day, and sleepless nights, reflecting on how I could have permitted myself to stray so far off course from the hopes and desires I established for my life's work".
Circuit Judge Gerard Lynch wrote for a three-judge panel that Section 215, which addresses the FBI's ability to gather business records, could not be interpreted to have permitted the NSA to collect a "staggering" amount of phone records, contrary to claims by the Bush and Obama administrations.
Hamilton said he would have permitted himself to cry after the race, but he could not.
The loosening of social mores over the intervening century has granted Boyd the liberty of injecting more overt sexuality into the clinches than Buchan could have respectably permitted Richard Hannay and Pamela Edwards, the young woman who stumbles into Hannay's cloak-and-dagger escapades.
