Sentence examples for did not permit it from inspiring English sources

I tried, but it was impossible, because the military did not permit it.

She found out her air rights were worthless in terms of personal expansion: zoning did not permit it.

Peter Barton Hutt, former general counsel of the agency, said federal law did not permit it to take "cost-benefit, political or social" factors into account.

There is the suggestion, at the end of the book, that Dorothea could not become another Saint Theresa because her social conditions did not permit it.

The court said that Israel had a duty to protect the lives of its citizens from "numerous indiscriminate and deadly acts of violence", but that did not permit it to flout international law.

For the U-boats which, according to my memory, went out into the Atlantic again only after the Norwegian campaign, for these U-boats the general order of rescue applied; and this order was qualified only in one way, namely that no rescue was to be attempted if the safety of a U-boat did not permit it.

When the lawsuit was filed in 2004, the E.P.A. under the Bush administration took the view that the Clean Air Act did not permit it to issue regulations addressing climate change and that it would be unwise to do so in any event.

American-Russian relations were strained then, as you may remember, and although many in the space industry itself would have preferred working together, the political climate did not permit it.