Sentence examples for it was permissive from inspiring English sources

That lifted the ceiling on prokaryotic genome size, eliminating the selection pressure to lose genes, but did not drive the accumulation of genes; it was permissive, not prescriptive.

As nicely put by Lane, it was "permissive not prescriptive", i.e., a critical condition but by no account an overarching cause of eukaryogenesis; other factors such as, for example, a massive intron attack on the host genome could have been extremely important as well.

It is not the noisy children that bother him as much as it is permissive parents who "think it's cute when their children bump into people or knock things down," said Mr. Hanges, a technology marketing consultant in St . Paul

It is permissive because it allows for all major variants of distributional preferences that have been discussed in the economic literature – see the discussion at the end of this and in the next section.

Although it is more stringent than that of the BLAST default, this cutoff point was employed because it is permissive enough to detect both Sinbad-like elements and members of the Pao/BEL family at large.

For example, early studies with decorin-deficient mice have indicated that although the lack of decorin does not lead to the development of spontaneous tumors (Danielson et al. 1997), it is permissive for tumorigenesis (Iozzo et al. 1999).

The loss of expression of components of the E-cadherin complex is a common abnormality in squamous carcinomas and, while it may be permissive for metastasis, it does not appear to be the only determinant of this process.

In certain crucial matters, Spock was permissive.

Her mother was permissive and the family moved frequently when Makayla was young, the report said.

The Bush Administration was permissive on modifications.

This bioenergetic expansion was permissive, not prescriptive.