"With the gods' permission," Mr. Jones interrupted, "I want to get back to the run-through tonight.
The young woman, heavy-lidded and inscrutable, gazes out at us from newspapers, expressing her poignant belief that "no man can do me harm without God's permission".
"The operations are under preparation and you will see them in your homes the minute they are through, with God's permission".
"The countdown has begun to return Iraq to the embrace of Islam and its Sunnis, with God's permission," read a statement on a prominent insurgent Web site on Wednesday.
The series opens with a voiceover from Elliott — played, wonderfully, by a bug-eyed, eerily still Rami Malek — who says he's convinced that "the top one per cent of the top one per cent, the guys that play God without permission," are following him.
Before we climb, we perform religious ceremonies to ask God for permission and safe passage.
Having twins is like getting God's permission to fuck one up.
A spokesman urged followers to "make it, with God's permission, a month of pain for infidels everywhere".
So, who among them is going to tell Chely Wright she doesn't have God's permission to be who she is?
The Catechism, using very traditional arguments, posits that God gave permission for images that symbolize Christian salvation by leaving symbols such as the bronze serpent, and the cherubim on the Ark of the Covenant.
