One surprising aspect of Iranian internet censorship is that it seems oddly permissive in unexpected places.
The archaeologist was, Price says, "extraordinarily permissive in terms of invention, in the materials he produced.
I don't know where that comes from, perhaps because we were too permissive in the past".
Arizona's gun laws stand out as among the most permissive in the country.
Permissive in the best possible sense, even Blackpool's symbolic, gap-toothed minstrel George Formby was as saucy as a dirty postcard.
Set in the fictional Boston town of Tarbox, it focuses on a small circle of friends, sexually permissive in the "post-pill paradise" of 1960s America.
Rules of inference do not state what inferences reasoners should draw in a given situation; they are instead permissive, in the sense that they show what inferences a reasoner can draw without committing a fallacy.
In the 1970s these activities brought the Jesuits into conflict with Pope John Paul II, who regarded the moderately liberal Arrupe as being overly permissive in his administration of the order.
Drug makers have long viewed France's pharmaceutical oversight apparatus as being relatively permissive, in particular as compared with the United States Food and Drug Administration, which industry and some patient groups criticize as overly cautious.
Indian law offers limited safeguards and limited enforcement to protect such children, and public attitudes are usually permissive in a society where even in the lowest rungs of the middle class, families often have at least one live-in servant.
And, if it is, what answer will it offer to another of Einstein's questions: "Did God have any choice in the creation of the world?" Is our universe -- and the physical laws that govern it -- the unique outcome of a fundamental theory, or are the underlying laws more "permissive," in the sense that they could allow other very different universes as well?
