Sentence examples for not merely permitted from inspiring English sources

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

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

"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.

Little angers non-Muslim Europeans more than the fact that groups like the Caliphate State are not merely permitted to exist, but are even protected by laws their members claim not to believe in.

According to Sumner's and Gen. Crear's deposition testimony, KBR was not merely permitted but required under Task Order 3 and the RIO contract to take all necessary precautions to safeguard personnel who might potentially be exposed to environmental hazards at worksites, including the wearing of protective gear and/or the closing down of operations at any unsafe site.

If the A.B.A. fails to act, the S.E.C. may adopt a tougher rule requiring, not merely permitting, lawyers to report when they believe a corporate client has engaged in illegal acts.

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.

Furthermore, it is important to note that the hyperautofluorescent border by itself does not indicate active inflammation; it merely permits better contrast on FAF.

Paul Theroux is the thinking person's James Michener, a globe-hopping chronicler of distant lands whose stories, some reported, some invented, aim to inform and broaden, not merely engage, and permit the armchair voyager to stamp new visas in his intellectual passport.

All six approaches maintain that organizations must make an explicit commitment to developing responsive care, rather than merely permitting individual initiatives that are not structurally embedded in the organization.