For underground coal mines, diesel engines used underground are divided into three categories under Mine Safety and Health Administration MSHAA) regulations: "permissible", "nonpermissible heavy-duty equipment, generators, and compressors" and "nonpermissible light-duty equipment".
According to a seventy-six-page report on abuses committed by the chengguan entitled "Beat Him, Take Everything Away," compiled by Human Rights Watch last year, there existed, from the beginning, "no overarching national regulatory framework laying out the permissible scope of chengguan duties, no uniform training requirements or code of conduct, and no systematic monitoring and investigations".
If stringent egalitarian duties to needy people arise only because the needy participate in a scheme of cooperation with the non-needy, then strategic action to avoid the duties seems permissible.
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.
Kierkegaard's point is not that it is somehow permissible to neglect one's epistemic duties where belief in God is concerned, but that one cannot separate the question of "what" is believed from the question of "how" it is believed.
Where policy "goes to the heart of the functioning of the judicial branch" then comment is not merely permissible, but there is arguably a judicial duty to comment.
"Although it may have been technically permissible for the State Department to delegate that duty to the county, what we're talking about here really does involve national security interests," he said.
On the broadest view, legitimacy both explains why the use of political power by a particular body a state, a government, or a democratic collective, for example—is permissible and why there is a pro tanto moral duty to obey its commands.
Sheik Al-Khatib al-Baghdadi: It is permissible to spill the blood of the Iraqi Christians — and a duty to wage jihad against them.
The plans do not include devolution of powers over air passenger duty – rejected by Westminster – or VAT, which is not permissible under EU law.
