Sentence examples for how we permit from inspiring English sources

The frustration expressed by President Obama in his statement about the Oregon shooting is shared by millions of people, like me, who cannot fathom how we permit these travesties to continue.

In fact, the entire debate on Scottish independence is simply not as important as the sharp reminder we got last week about how we permit the poorest and most defeated in our society to be treated.

How can we permit one more soldier to die; how can we permit one more Iraqi to die?

How can we permit such barbarian behavior in full view of our children who will copy us?

How can we permit new affordable financing to be given to whole loans, and not to loans within securitizations?

"We're seeing around the country legislators grappling with this question: 'How should we permit the government to cut these deals with criminal offenders?'" says Natapoff.

So how do we permit ourselves to be vulnerable, and open up to the uncertainty risk evokes?

Perhaps this tragedy causes us to ask some tough questions about how we can permit so many of our children to languish in poverty, or attend dilapidated schools, or grow up without prospects for a job or for a career.

How long will we permit the major banks to "game" our economic system?

Or how about when we permit ourselves to send a solitary text only to be racked by regret immediately thereafter that we didn't play a little harder to get and make them work a little bit more--and then obsessively await their response anyway.

We can disagree, we can get upset, we can feel mad, but as I am trying to teach my own children, how we feel doesn't permit us to act in any manner we choose.