Sentence examples for merely permit from inspiring English sources

Some maintain that the attorney should withdraw, if possible, or else merely permit the client to testify without aiding him or asserting the truth of the testimony given.

Republicans rejected the criticism, saying their bill would merely permit states to better coordinate their own efforts with federal day care services.

Israel should "not build more settlements, [it should] dismantle existing outposts and allow Palestinians freedom of movement …and access to economic opportunity".Mr Netanyahu's men claim this was not a scolding: the vice-president spoke of "more" settlements and Mr Netanyahu's government says it will merely permit the expansion of existing ones rather than build "more".

The bill did not go far enough to satisfy Senator Charles E. Schumer of New York, who wanted to require, and not merely permit, the Treasury to forbid dealing with banks in countries where secrecy laws prevent cooperation with the F.B.I. or other United States investigative agencies.

So private property is continually in need of public justification first, because it empowers individuals to make decisions about the use of scarce resource in a way that is not necessarily sensitive to others' needs or the public good; and second, because it does not merely permit that but deploys public force at public expense to uphold it.

For if the above proposition is true because God wills that it be true, then it would seem that God wills that Peter sin, and if he wills that Peter sin, he cannot merely permit it, in light of condition (1) of the definition of permission given above.

But, while acting on vengeful feelings clearly needs to be discouraged, acknowledging them should be not merely permitted but encouraged.

Patrons were not merely permitted but encouraged to strike up conversations with strangers from entirely different walks of life.

The council merely permitted the vernacular and stressed that the faithful should be familiar with their parts of the mass in Latin.

"Students were not merely permitted but were openly encouraged to cheat," investigators wrote of the case, in which students were given answer keys to copy instead of completing required lab experiments in the days and hours before the exam.

The ruling by the judge, Justice Paul Wooten of State Supreme Court in Manhattan, did not find that the girl was liable, but merely permitted a lawsuit brought against her, another boy and their parents to move forward.