Sentence examples for could this be allowed from inspiring English sources

How could this be allowed?

"How could this be allowed to happen?" That was the understandable question asked by the Prime Minister David Cameron when presented with details of Jimmy Savile's abuse.

If this was allowed, it could go a long way to curtail the issues with app abandonment.

Bob Geldof used his outrage that this could be allowed to happen to spectacular effect and raised money with songs and concerts.

"Students deserve to know what went wrong and how this could be allowed to happen.

This couldn't be allowed to happen, Sievey was a great, he must be given the send-off he deserves.

Tenure could be abolished, principals could be allowed to hire and fire freely and teachers could be paid by results.

She believed that this disease could not be allowed to reach the rest of the world, so she killed her colleagues, including her husband Robert.

An analogy that illustrates the point is this: suppose one could only be allowed a home if one never left it; or that if one were permitted to travel about inside and beyond the borders of one's country, one would not be allowed to go back to the starting point.

Now, if the ruling stands, Oliver and perhaps many other draft picks this June could be allowed to have their lawyer negotiate their contracts.

The idea that this industry could be allowed to operate in a special area of conservation, as a reward for wiping out the rest of its fishing grounds, would strike most people as an outrage.