Sentence examples for permit an exception from inspiring English sources

If there are any circumstances which permit an exception, they do not now occur to us".

"She wrote that the law does not permit an exception in this case.

If a member of an officer's immediate family is to be hired to work in a position directly subordinate or supervisory to the officer, that fact should be disclosed in advance to the appropriate Vice President or the Provost so that a determination can be made whether to permit an exception to the normal prohibition against nepotism.

At this point, school authorities know that they have to permit an exception for any child who conscientiously objects to participating.

On May 14 , 2001 the United States Supreme Court ruled in United States v. Oakland Cannabis Buyers' Coop that federal anti-drug laws do not permit an exception for medical cannabis and rejected the common-law medical necessity defense to crimes enacted under the Controlled Substances Act because Congress concluded cannabis has "no currently accepted medical use" when the act was passed in 1970.

Lovers may be permitted an exception to this ironclad rule, if they never achieve the bliss of consummation — and therefore never have to wake to the beloved's morning breath the morning after.

Fairness issues would demand the highest level of transparency, so that everyone involved at all phases would know what was possible to permit as an exception and what was not.

Most civil-law countries do not permit any exceptions, while other countries, such as Germany, permit written statements by witnesses in special cases and with the consent of the parties.

However, the cultural commentator Peter York said an advert from the C of E should be permitted as an exception.

Subsidizing exports is illegal according to world trading rules but agriculture, a sensitive issue in Europe, Japan and the United States, has been permitted as an exception.

At the annual Aerospace Industries Association trade show in Paris last month, for example, military contractors treated a gaggle of senators to luxurious receptions at galleries, parks and hotels — all permitted under an exception for "widely attended events".