Sentence examples for permissible to do from inspiring English sources

Would it be morally permissible to do so?

Is it ever morally permissible to do harm?

I actually never did that stuff when it was socially more permissible to do them — not for lack of interest but for lack of funds.

And if consent makes it permissible to do what would normally be forbidden, then consent makes it permissible for me to kill myself.

I didn't think Harriet was looking for a rabbinic ruling — we do everything we can to save a life, but when death is inevitable, it can be permissible to do nothing.

At a conference yesterday organised by the Progress Educational Trust, representatives of different faith traditions – and the secular philosopher John Harris – gave their views on what it is permissible to do with human embryos.

"Was the only permissible thing to do to obediently vote Labour and then kick up a stink about a great deal of what they did?

Federal authorities have promised not to come to the rescue of large failing financial companies, but they still have more than enough permissible lending authority to do just that.

And how could it be permissible to fail to do such a thing, if it is "extra good"?

Palestinians are also jumping on the terrible bandwagon of revenge -- but that does not mean it's permissible for Jews to do so, too.

"Hacking is about a notion of what journalism is and what is permissible – just as Watergate was about what it's permissible for the president to do," he says, arguing that Murdoch is, in the broadest sense, responsible for his now closed Sunday tabloid.