Sentence examples for permissive situation from inspiring English sources

In Carla Lane's The Liver Birds (1969-79), the Merseyside flatmates would discuss "doing it" with boyfriends, while Man About the House (1973-76) contrived an even more permissive situation – a man lodging with two single women.

Such contact-mediated signatures of the transcriptome in stromal osteogenic precursors may also persist as a permissive situation in myeloma cells.

Patients with a WTD were asked to describe their perceptions of triggering or hindering factors, relational aspects, the importance of autonomy and spirituality, and also whether the permissive situation of organized assisted suicide in Switzerland influenced their attitude.

The gallbladder is a permissive site for Salmonella.

CONCLUSIONS: Dietary folate deficiency can induce cranial NTDs in nonmutant mice with a permissive genetic background, a situation that likely parallels gene-nutrient interactions in human NTDs.

The commonest reason for hypercapnia in ventilated patients is a reduced tidal volume (VT); this situation is termed permissive hypercapnia.

The researcher strove to create a permissive atmosphere in the interview situation so that the next of kin would feel comfortable expressing thoughts that could be seen as critical.

As usual, an over-permissive patent office is to blame.

At a minimum, if Libya finds itself welcoming teams of international aid workers, engineers or advisers on reconstruction, and if the post-Qaddafi situation looks "semi-permissive" (ie, dangerous but not lethal), such foreigners will need protecting.

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.

To retake control of our dreams and our lives we must end the permissive passivity which enables the present situation.