Sentence examples for had been permissible from inspiring English sources

Or even that they had been permissible.

"The C.F.T.C. staff — not the commissioners, but the staff — decided late Thursday afternoon that swaps transactions that had been permissible Thursday afternoon would not be permissible on Friday morning".

And many of those interviewed seemed to feel that if it had been permissible for years to mistreat African-Americans because of their ethnicity, the same should now hold true for Middle Easterners.

A3 CIA Calls Techniques Legal The CIA said all interrogation techniques approved for use by agency personnel in questioning captured terrorists had been permissible under federal laws prohibiting torture.

Under a previous version of this law, out-of-state IDs had been permissible, and even Memphis library cards after a lawsuit from some senior citizens.

Until the eighth to 12th centuries, ijtihad had been permissible, but such exegesis was abolished in response to emerging dissident groups during expansion of the Islamic empire.

Would it have been permissible to say something?

Thiel's involvement was first reported by Forbes, earlier this year.* It might have been permissible, but Thiel was a billionaire paying to put a publication out of business.

Today, you read these notorious records doubly amazed: that wildlife slaughter on this scale should have been permissible – and that it should have been possible.

"Though Americans consider intergenerational sex to be evil, it has been permissible or obligatory in many cultures and periods of history," he wrote.

It has been permissible in research since 2009, as long as the research project meets the criteria in the legislation and it is done under an HFEA licence.