Sentence examples for not only permissible from inspiring English sources

Historical precedent suggested that some signs were not only permissible in the SoHo Historic District, but in keeping with its character, she said.

This cat cartoon appeared about a month after 9/11, and in that dour and fearful time Leo showed us that laughter was not only permissible but necessary.

An accurate look at Catholic teaching on contraception today shows strong support for the position that contraception is not only permissible but even mandatory in many cases.

When fear is justified and when the policies one advocates will genuinely reduce the possibility that the thing feared will come to pass, then "the politics of fear" is not only permissible, it is something like a duty.

An 11-judge panel of the appeals court then reconsidered the case, issuing an 8-to-3 decision last March that upheld Tucson's policy as not only permissible but required by the constitutional separation of church and state.

We don't (or at least most of us around here don't) usually root for the Miami Dolphins, but when they are playing the Jets' rivals, the New England Patriots, it is not only permissible, it is desirable.

The next week we did run cartoons, leading off with this one, by Leo Cullum, which showed that, in a fearful and dour time, laughter would not only be permissible but necessary.

As part of research for a book I co-wrote, one Isis-affiliated cleric said that Naji's book is widely read among provisional commanders and some rank-and-file fighters as a way to justify beheadings as not only religiously permissible but recommended by God and Muhammad.

Similarly, Ellegaard and Kragh (2015) have argued that it is not only morally permissible, but morally required to force persistent violent offenders to undergo morally enhancing treatments provided the demonstrated effectiveness of such interventions.

But whether the incident was born of ignorance or hate, it's one that will become not only legally permissible but required in Florida if the bill passes.

But after a concentrated study of remotely piloted vehicles, he said, he concluded that using them to go after terrorists not only was ethically permissible but also might be ethically obligatory, because of their advantages in identifying targets and striking with precision.