Sentence examples for if I permit from inspiring English sources

If I permit a tiny crack in the wall of liberty, then others will follow until the wall shakes and collapses".

If I permitted myself a certain religious faith or degree of mysticism, I could persuade myself that she indeed was.

This, if I may permit myself to indulge in a term that I suspect Wood doesn't have much use for, is a bit of a metacriticism -- because, as it happens, it perfectly captures the tone of many of Wood's judgments, which for all their intellectual earnestness can come across as slightly condescending.

And what should I call them if I do permit it?

Turkuaz is still working out kinks in its service, which tends to be slow, but if I'm permitted another prediction, the problems will be solved.

If I'm permitted to have a musical career at that age, that's something I'd like to take with me.

For now, assume that B i, j) = 1 if (i, j) is a permitted match, and is 0 otherwise.

"If time would permit, I would get a plan of it, for it would certainly be useful in America," he wrote in his diary.

(Ho ho, if I may be permitted a bit of "black dialect").

If I might be permitted to count them as a single overarching work — a great work — the five Patrick Melrose novels by the English writer Edward St. Aubyn.

If I may be permitted a followup: Do you see a distinction between how we should approach the Taliban and how we should approach Al Qaeda?