He is right and has uncovered a great truth: If dictators are wise they will permit a lot of blowing off of steam in the blogosphere.
The woman wants to know if Islam will permit her to have an abortion.
If you will permit me a moment of idealism: one conclusion of the unfolding process of social evolution would, presumably, be a society without crime.
It was a point of pride with him — a matter of artistic principle, if you will permit the expression — that his novels be entertaining and his poems amusing.
"Also, I think the idea that Miss Stein and I are primarily wits is, if you will permit me, both antiquated and inaccurate.
'For your lady, sir, if you will permit me,' he murmured in a bottled Oxbridge voice that could have belonged to a festive Jeeves.
If you will is a shortening of "if you will permit me to say" or "if you will pardon my saying so," which is not quite what the clipped phrase means.
The name of wife may seem more sacred or more binding, but sweeter to me will always be the word mistress, or, if you will permit me, that of concubine or whore".
Last month, despite the opposition of parents' groups, the teachers' unions, and the Board of Regents, the State Assembly's Education Committee approved a bill that, if adopted, will permit the state's public schools to show Channel One.
Apples, it should be noted, figure prominently among the Products attractively displayed in the course of this Entertainment, which passes, if you will permit me to say so, Swiftly enough — not unlike a small, unvexing Kidney Stone.
