Sentence examples for even though it is permissible from inspiring English sources

It also praised officials for establishing rules of engagement that went beyond the New York State penal code (city officers are not allowed to use deadly force to protect property even though it is permissible under the law) and for putting in place an "exemplary" method of studying police shootings after the fact.

Possibly it requires more experimental ingenuity than we have, though it is permissible to hope not.

But even when it is permissible, physicians are reluctant to provide PAD for patients with dementia, psychiatric diseases and elderly people who are weary of life [ 5].

In the time-honored example of the run-away trolley (Trolley), one may turn a trolley so that it runs over one trapped workman so as to save five workmen trapped on the other track, even though it is not permissible for an agent to have initiated the movement of the trolley towards the one to save five (Foot 1967; Thomson 1985).

"The majority of scholars say that it is permissible to strike at infidels, even if Muslims are among them," Zawahiri contends.

Even the Catholic Church in recent times has been prepared to agree that it is permissible, in a case like this, to turn off the respirator.

In many other areas of science, they argue, it is permissible to talk of certain phenomena as if they were discrete entities, even though the terms involved are really nothing more than convenient ways of referring, at a certain level of generality, to complex patterns of objects or events.

If it is permissible to kill one in order to save a billion, then not even Gewirth's right is absolute.

Most people think it is permissible to turn the trolley in Bystander, but not to push the heavy man in Footbridge, even though both scenarios pit the death of one against the death of five.

It is permissible to shoot in self-defense.

"I think it is permissible to weigh matters.