Labeling terrorists as combatants also leads to this paradox: while the deliberate killing of civilians is never permitted in war, it is legal to target a military installation or asset.
In this movie the political is never permitted to intrude upon the personal.
And somehow the audience is never permitted to appreciate the depth and profundity of their shared commitment to Myanmar.
The cynicism is heightened by the muzzling of the press, which is only allowed to report selectively on corruption and is never permitted to dig very deep.
Lydia has a pleasant boyfriend called Carson, who is never permitted emotional intimacy because of the humdinger of a secret lurking in her breast.
Parking is never permitted on the ocean blocks, but the park does have its own 1,000-car 1,000-carlotthatmmer charged $6 a day.
"In my view, a judge is never permitted to discuss the merits of a pending case in a nonjudicial forum," wrote the dissenting judge, Harry T. Edwards.
Mr. Crelia is never permitted to have more than $2,000 in the bank, a restriction that places the trappings of a middle-class life — a car, a modest home, a family — far out of reach.
I know what lured him on: first, the idea of the military man, his manners as buffed as his boots, both obeying and toying with the codes of his livelihood; second, the besotted woman — what used to be known as a silly goose — who is never permitted, thanks to a sympathetic camera, to shrink into a mere victim of circumstance.
Absolute and maximal versions of deontological pacifism maintain that killing is never permitted, even the killing of enemy soldiers.
