Sentence examples for it was allowable from inspiring English sources

By a slim 5-4 majorithethe Supreme Court said the mandate was not permitted by Congress' right to regulate interstate commerce; but by an equally slim majority it said it was allowable under its taxing powers.Perhaps the choice of words made no difference and the decision, as my colleague argues, was not based on a technicality.

(During the controversy over James Frey's "Million Little Pieces," Mr. Talese publicly disagreed with his wife, who published the book, over whether it was allowable for a memoirist to embellish the truth, saying, "Nonfiction takes no liberty with the facts").

"The relief valve to that was that if somebody put [square footage] underground and no one could see it," it was allowable, says Los Angeles city planner Erick Lopez.

Would it be allowable to say afterwards, if so it proved, "I didn't like it"?

" People are expected to have comments made about their past, and it is allowable.

"I'm definitely interested in throwing my hat in the ring, if it's allowable, and plan to talk to other shareholders," Mr. Jackson told Dawn Kawamoto of CNet.

I think it is allowable comic licence – knowingly transgressive like Lotinga, whom Eliot was taken to see by his Jewish friend Jack Isaacs.

"This is the first case," Professor Hanna said, "in which a court has held that it's allowable for the state to charge a woman with aiding and abetting her abuser in violating a restraining order".

The Forest Service says that even though the project is on the edge of the Cabinet Mountains Wilderness and partly in the Kootenai National Forest, it is allowable under the Mining Law of 1872, which permits companies to stake claims to publicly owned minerals for small processing fees.

It is allowable to discuss only one of them.

It's allowable under American law for interrogators to lie to people who they are questioning.