But my focus here is on the other end of the family honour market – the permissive end.
In most people the Hell's Angels strike a chord of fear, loathing, and anger: they personify everything that is wrong with modern youth, the permissive society, and Dr Spock.
I explained to the man from Whitehall about the nature of international collaborations and the way in which, these days, media organisations could take advantage of the most permissive legal environments.
It isn't so much that he thinks they want to privatise the health service, rather that they're "creating an environment which makes this more acceptable, more permissive".
There is plenty of thinking going on in the Lib Dems, at least among the party's parliamentarians, in the permissive climate that Kennedy allows; it is less clear how well it all fits together.
The firm slap is seen as part of a repertoire of sanctions that distinguishes the unsentimental French approach to parenting from the permissive, child-centric Anglo-Saxon variety.
Tony Stoller, chief executive of the Radio Authority, says he has never known there to be so many applications for licences.Since the 1990 Broadcasting Act introduced a more permissive licensing regime, the Radio Authority has almost doubled the number of stations.
The accounts describe permissive rules of engagement.
This is not particularly permissive: at least six other EU countries allow divorce without any separation period.
He practised a permissive style of leadership that allowed too many abuses to go unchecked.
The counties have settled on relatively "permissive" counting of dimples.It is hard to know what effect this will have.
