Sentence examples for it permissible to answer from inspiring English sources

Nor is it permissible to answer "17" on the grounds that "I have children ⊃ I have 17 children" is true.

It's entirely permissible to answer: both.

Is it permissible to delay motherhood?

Is it permissible to pull the lever?

But is it permissible to joke at your own expense?

Is it permissible to apply it to something vaguely ironic and inconvenient?

Is it permissible to call something purple for rhythmic purposes when in fact it's pink?

On no social occasion, according to Toksvig, is it permissible to be drunk.

Is it permissible to throw the switch, killing one man to save five?

And is it permissible to slander the dead in the pursuit of a good story?

Nor was it permissible to change the whole nature of the organisation.