Sentence examples for it was permitted by from inspiring English sources

It was permitted by our district head, but he's in jail now because it was actually illegal.

Before 1988, soft money played an insignificant role, though it was permitted by a loophole in the post-Watergate federal election laws passed in 1974, which allowed unrestricted donations to political parties for party-building activities, like voter registration drives.

White also gives credence to Bolton's claims that the war in 2003 was justified by two UN resolutions - 678 and 687 - which were approved in 1990 and 1991, and that it was permitted by article 51 of the UN charter.

Though research with fetal tissue has been controversial, it was permitted by the Clinton administration under strict guidelines, and the Bush administration has shown no signs of reversing the policy.

They couldn't even ask me to do it — I don't think it was permitted by law to ask a minor — but even having another person pretend to be me was embarrassing to me and upsetting to my mother, and she said so.

The advertisement was banned from appearing on television, although it was permitted by the Cinema Advertising Association to appear in cinemas across Britain from 19 January 2010.

If problems remain afterwards, then irradiation could be an option, provided it is permitted by the federal government.

Mr Obama's people insist that it can and that like a lot of other federal laws on taxation and the environment it is permitted by the commerce clause.

Most states had laws against the practices addressed by the federal law by the time it was enacted, and the federal law applies only if it is permitted by state law.

This can be easily remedied by unchecking a box in your privacy settings but it is permitted by default.

Either all causal conditions are such that the sea battle will occur, or no causal conditions are such that it will occur, or it is permitted by some but not all causal conditions (cf. Hartshorne 1970, 145).