Sentence examples for permissible form from inspiring English sources

In his final years, he became a lumbering patriarch with an illuminated face and dark twinkling eyes, who was very aware of his greatness but chose his words with care in a nation where humility is the only permissible form of pride.

A maxim has morally permissible form, for Kant, only if it could be willed as a universal law.

Those methods had been sanctioned by a government commission in 1987 as permissible forms of "moderate physical pressure".

Mr. Grässle-Münscher laid out a withering case for the American appetite for torture, quoting from one Justice Department memorandum that argued that Qaeda prisoners were not protected by the Geneva Conventions and another that listed permissible forms of coercive treatment.

The only permissible forms of birth control are abstinence and "natural family planning," using knowledge of a woman's cycle to restrict intercourse to times when she is unlikely to conceive.

In addition, the Company Law (which is based on Egyptian company law) identifies eight permissible forms of corporate entity including joint ventures, and limited liability partnerships.

More commonly, defenders of the epistemic value of religious experience claim that the experiences make it epistemically permissible to form the belief, but you may also be justified in not forming the belief.

In the fall of 1979, Mr. Wang, then a 30-year-old fledgling sculptor, was the leader of a daring group of artists who detected a slight thaw in the atmosphere after the horrors of the Cultural Revolution, a period when social realism was the only permissible art form.

It also refers to the types of investments that are permissible under this form of law.

This leads to questions about permissible and impermissible forms of paternalism in economic contexts in which central liberal values such as freedom and respect, but also wellbeing and social justice, are at stake.

As socialist realism was imposed on Soviet writers, one form of permissible resistance, of finding an inner freedom, was to read translations of foreign writers.