Sentence examples for might be permissible from inspiring English sources

The proposal does not spell out how much contamination might be permissible.

This, Boggs concluded, went well beyond the "plus or tip that Justice Powell thought might be permissible".

That might be permissible, Mr. McAllister said, depending on the "penological interest" to be served by the requirement to confess.

This, too, might be permissible if the movie's writers had been bolder, but they are as fainthearted as Speke when confronted with Burton's swollen legs.

Now I'm sure there will be a time in the lifespan of our relationship when such shared appreciation might be permissible.

A ban short of a blanket prohibition might be permissible, he added, and the court gave the Illinois Legislature 180 days to enact a new law.

Though affirming rights of states on immigration, he said, the court also "left open the possibility that a state action might not be permissible depending on whether it is cooperative" with federal efforts.

Admittedly, such a program might well be permissible under existing Supreme Court precedent, most notably the Court's 1916 decision in Butler v. Perry, which ruled that the Amendment does not bar a (likely racist) Florida law forcing people to work on roads.

George J. Terwilliger III, a former deputy attorney general in the first Bush administration who has been an adviser to the Justice Department, said in a speech today that it might also be permissible for the United States government to transfer terrorist suspects to other nations with different standards of interrogation.

Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, writing three years ago in his book "All the Laws but One: Civil Liberties in Wartime," said that "in time of war the government's authority to restrict civil liberty is greater than in peacetime," and that "distinctions that might not be permissible between classes of citizens must be viewed otherwise when drawn between classes of aliens".

She adds that early-morning construction in the area gave him the sense that trash collection in the wee hours of the morning might also be permissible.