Sentence examples for permit themselves from inspiring English sources

They permit themselves only two meals out a week.

These animals beg for food, and some even permit themselves to be petted.

They would not permit themselves to be "forced" by their parents "into loveless marriages to satisfy social ambition".

Should diners permit themselves a discount in exchange for being experimented upon, even if the experiment was pleasurable?

Comrades may permit themselves a degree of quiet satisfaction at Trump's evident respect for the methods of our late, beloved Chairman.

Whatever their cost, watches are one of the few types of jewelry that men permit themselves to own, Professor Drèze said.

At times, the Prohibitionists permitted themselves to express their frustration in less conciliatory terms.

Following the 4th-century theologians Evagrius Ponticus and John Cassian, Christian mystics permitted themselves only a much reduced program.

The central bank embodies a dream even the founders of what is today the European Union never permitted themselves.

The men permitted themselves the luxury of iPods, as well as a deck of cards and a few mementos.

But by highlighting the real people making history, these stars permitted themselves to look small -- something the famous rarely do.