Sentence examples for grudgingly permitted from inspiring English sources

Even toward the war's end, Roosevelt grudgingly permitted only 982 "displaced persons" to find temporary shelter in Oswego, N.Y., as chronicled by Ruth Gruber's "Haven".

Medieval houses often faced inwards to a courtyard, closing in on themselves, their walls as thick as possible to withstand the cold and, in violent times, the armies; their windows were chinks in the armour, only grudgingly permitted.

The marketing fee was grudgingly permitted by the Securities & Exchange Commission in 1980 on the theory that drawing in new clients would benefit old ones by bringing economies of scale to a fund.

Four percent annual rental increases are now grudgingly permitted to owners of rental units, a cut from the previously permitted 7%.

Gates, whose preferred strategy was to sit and wait for the expected frontal assault, grudgingly permitted a reconnaissance in force consisting of Daniel Morgan's men and Henry Dearborn's light infantry.

Satire is sometimes a safety valve that government might grudgingly permit.

They talk as if morality were already complete and self-sufficient without art, and that art, if it is to be tolerated at all, can grudgingly be permitted, provided that it conforms to the moral customs of the time and place of those judging it.

Grudgingly, he permits us to keep pets of our own, but every so often he sends us a humbling reminder, a darling little freak so cute that it's grotesque, a victim born with its short clock ticking, a thing that we're powerless to save.

Only in the past 20 years has analysis been permitted, at first grudgingly, now relatively freely.

The cashier grudgingly let me go.

The United Airlines execu tive not only is critical that fare increases have been "grudgingly granted at long intervals," but also that when they finally have been permitted, "they've been too little and too late". Mr. Keck feels the airlines have gone about as far as they can in effecting costs‐control pro grams.