Sentence examples for permit ourselves from inspiring English sources

"We cannot permit ourselves a power vacuum," he said.

In Holmes, we permit ourselves to ogle pure evil.

We cannot permit ourselves to postpone "certain agendas" for the future.

Even at the most trying of moments we could permit ourselves to imagine something else.

He added, "A lot is at stake; we cannot permit ourselves to live the way we did before".

We can permit ourselves to be swept along by rage, propaganda, or a mob - or we can stop.

I like the idea that we're permitting ourselves a little drunkenness under sufferance!

In McFarland, we permitted ourselves to think that our modern snake-oil salesmen are also victims of a larger culture.

We are able to offer patients our best when we are caring for ourselves and permitting ourselves to reach out for help and connection.

We have been fortunate to live through a successful system where we permitted ourselves to believe that there was a trusted and valuable means of exchange and store of value called money.

We have permitted ourselves to indulge in the exaggerated privileges of victimhood too long and too often.