Sentence examples for permitted itself from inspiring English sources

By failing to innovate some 30 years ago, it has permitted itself to lapse into the defensive, if not also reactionary, posture that now plagues it.

For once, a nation that can normally hold its booze permitted itself to succumb; knots of people weaved across the roadway, swinging bottles like clubs, and three young women squatted down in unison to pee between parked cars.

Haunted by the memory of the First World War, and the fear of what would be known as the Second, Sartre felt that his contemporary world "permitted itself many things because it knew it was going to die".

Herbert Muschamp's vivid and sympathetic critique of 2 Columbus Circle ["Huntington Hartford's Generous Folly," April 2] places it among the few buildings that hint at what modernism might have looked like if it had been an architecture of pleasure instead of ideology, and had permitted itself to embrace the past as joyfully as it embraced the future.

Or, as the High Court permitted itself to note, "for those who have the inclination to use 'Twitter' for the purpose, Shakespeare can be quoted unbowdlerised, and with Edgar, at the end of King Lear, they are free to speak not what they ought to say, but what they feel".

The second C-SPAN channel, C-SPAN2, followed on June 2 , 1986when the U.S. Senate permitted itself to be televised.

Anger is the only emotion this picture permits itself.

Yet women's swimming does not permit itself naïve and untempered adulation.

REFLECTIONS about how our society is permitting itself to be dominated & transformed by fashionable minds.

But nor can it permit itself a government that no longer governs.

Yahoo also permits itself to transfer personal information if the company is bought.