Sentence examples for had only been permitted from inspiring English sources

I remember working out that the last Ashes tour would have been a very close series if Australia had only been permitted one innings.

This should not be an impossible feat, and Mr. Carell and Ms. Fey might have been able to pull it off — if they had only been permitted to try.

But she has only been permitted to use the girls' locker room if she changes separately from other students.

Disneyland is a self-contained, controlled, pedestrian-friendly retail monoculture whose functions are overlaid with a veneer of narrative and fantasy, invisibly serviced and governed by regulations so repressive that employees have only been permitted to sport moustaches since 2000.

The first zoning efforts inhibited the spread of commercial land-use, which has only been permitted along the main road grid (MMAA 1986).

United had only been awaiting confirmation of his work permit to complete his transfer, which will go through on July 1.

As a result, festival organizers have only been issued a one-year permit to stage Burning Man 2012, and their efforts to obtain a five-year permit are now in jeopardy.

One worries particularly about a democratic deficit: British voters have only once been permitted a vote on Europe, in a referendum in 1975.

While the Chinese Constitution guarantees freedom of speech, that freedom has only infrequently been permitted on a broad scale since the founding of the Communist state in 1949, and seldom in the centuries before that.

In recent years couples who were both only children had already been permitted to have two offspring.

One can say only that, had Gibson been permitted to play in the major leagues, he would very likely have challenged Ruth's record.