"The only question to me is not whether I favor it -- I do -- but whether or not the rules of reconciliation will permit it or not, because you can't do policy stuff as its main purpose.
Somewhere in my psyche I knew this and permitted it to happen because I felt more insecure out of the relationship than I did in it.
If such a "blanket measure" is at odds with practices in some other European countries, Clarke continued, then it is nevertheless permitted because it is within the UK's so-called "margin of appreciation" – the flexibility allowed for local differences in regulations.
Similarly, proponents of chimera research cannot legitimately argue that it should be funded, or even just that it should be legally permitted, because it represents humanity's partial fulfillment of a divine imperative to acquire knowledge and improve the human condition.
Pfefer says he is glad the Commission doesn't permit a champion becauses it saves hard feelings among his wrestlers.
Alfalfa is permitted because it is used as animal feed.
Today's rally was permitted because it included a question-and-answer session and counted as a seminar.
If the coordinates of two of the particles are interchanged, the wave function must remain unaltered or, at most, undergo a change of sign; the change of sign is permitted because it is Ψ2 that occurs in the physical interpretation of the wave function.
The principle that I here maintain, that sin was permitted because it was involved in the best plan for the universe, was already employed there, and M. Arnauld did not seem hostile to it" (Theodicy, #211).
Or in other words, the ad was permitted because it did not directly call for a vote for or against Franken.
