Sentence examples for overly permissive from inspiring English sources

But Chandler also acknowledged that the Knicks were overly permissive.

But as they grew to be adults (or emerging adults), I grew overly permissive.

Having criticized the diet industry for encouraging an impious obsession with food, Shamblin has now unleashed her wrath on the church, which she views as overly permissive.

There are many causes for this, including a nationwide patchwork of regulatory schemes that are in some instances overly permissive and in others excessively restrictive.

"Parents used to be authoritarian, but then we saw a change in the 1980's toward an overly permissive parenting style," she said.

This does not mean, however, that parents should be overly permissive and let children get away with destructive or undesirable behavior.

Parents have become too permissive.

Was it because I was too permissive?

Current methods of setting catch amounts are too permissive.

Amid these tensions, the Episcopal Church -- itself deeply divided over issues of human sexuality -- has become a target for criticism from some bishops in Africa and Asia who have said that some of their counterparts in the United States and Britain have become overly influenced by permissive Western society.

It could be argued that an overly open and permissive society gives way to exactly the kind of vulnerability the U.S. showed this week.