Sentence examples for could not permit from inspiring English sources

The insurgents could not permit internecine fighting.

Tolstoy could not permit that.

The White House called Hunter, and Ms. Halpern said later Tuesday it could not permit the class observation.

But inevitably, perhaps, the communist-run government could not permit such an innovation without tightly prescribing its use.

The final reply from the tribe was that they could not permit digging up remains of their past.

She could not permit herself any nostalgia as she warmed up below signs honoring John Riggins and Joe Cronin.

I couldn't permit any major decisions to be made for me.

Jakarta could and would not permit any resolution other than the inclusion of Papua into Indonesia, the memo stated.

Given this pattern of increasing profitability, I would hold that the 'failing company' doctrine could not reasonably permit the two newspapers to extend the term of the agreement in 1953 at a time when it was impossible to predict whether full competition could be renewed in 1965.

It is enough that Virginia could conclude, in the absence of contrary Federal legislation, that she could not safely permit the transportation of liquor through her territory by those who concededly mean to break Federal laws 8 and the laws of a neighboring state.

In determining that it does not, we do not suggest that prison officials could not or should not permit such inmate organizations, but only that the Constitution does not require them to do so.