Mr Kiriyenko may perhaps be allowed to keep the job precisely because he is too slight a figure to give offence.
So much we may perhaps be allowed to say, not in self-praise, for it may well be that performance has not kept pace with promise, but in justice to one who in life was content to ask for no public recognition, but who in death should not be denied his due.
Would they perhaps be allowed to stay indefinitely?
Perhaps unsurprisingly, rather than being allowed to savour the flavour of an epic victory, Froome was not his usual cheery self in an unprecedentedly short and typically packed press conference yesterday.
Perhaps they are allowed to share a box in which to lay their eggs.
Perhaps they were allowed to see the website; they might have been to a public exhibition of the oral history project and received applause.
After 40 years, perhaps she should be allowed to know him best.
Perhaps grandad will be allowed to get his own back in the next book.
Perhaps Alan Green should be allowed to referee a match with Martin Atkinson commentating.
Perhaps some people are allowed to say less today, but many people are finally free to say more.
