"Any behaviour was permissible as long as it didn't negatively affect the people at the festival.
Such diversity is permissible as long as the basic principles of Islām are not affected.
But in 1988, Iran's then supreme leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, lifted the ban and said it was permissible as long as it was not a means of gambling.
As so often in the 21st century, any cruelty or stupidity is permissible as long as it is cloaked in "appropriate" language.
The company argued that this was permissible as long as the jeans were meant to be sold in the European Economic Area.
Under Supreme Court precedents, a suspension at other times may nonetheless be permissible as long as adequate alternate procedures exist for challenging a conviction or sentence.
All three are perfectly permissible, as well as understandable, and to summarise: if you see a bit of head, punch him in it.
According to this principle, meals consisting of meat or fish with salad or vegetables (other than potatoes) are permissible, as are vegetable curry and rice, or pasta with a red sauce and salad.
There have been no clinical trials of giving both shots at the same time, but the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say simultaneous vaccinations are permissible as long as both vaccines are the killed-virus form given by needle, rather than the weakened live-virus form given by nasal spray, and as long as the injections are in two different anatomical sites.
"The court's ruling," Dr. Chancey writes in his new report, "means that Bible courses in public schools are constitutionally permissible as long as they are taught in an academic manner that does not cross the line into religious instruction or religiously biased presentation".
They are morally permissible as long as they are kept within certain limits, but morally indifferent in themselves.
