Sentence examples for permitted to fail from inspiring English sources

But it's not just students who are permitted to fail.

If banks cannot be permitted to fail, then their liabilities (as Martin Wolf of the Financial Times was musing last week) were perhaps always and only ever contingent liabilities of the public.

So, despite the fact that bailouts induce bad behavior, in this case a debtor nation will probably not be permitted to fail.

She then opined that the big banks currently "have too much political power and too much money to be sufficiently capable of being managed, of being supervised and regulated, and of being permitted to fail," in a dazzling, rarely-seen-in-Washington demonstration of stringing sentences together that do not contain ideas that are intrinsically foolish.

Had the companies been permitted to fail or had they been administered under some form of managed bankruptcy the bonuses of the "failed" companies would never have been paid out, or if they had, the bankruptcy courts would have recaptured them as 'fraudulent transfers'.

Her father, a lawyer no longer permitted to practise, tried, but failed, to emigrate to Palestine.

Finance became the industry that was not allowed to fail but was permitted to enlarge and metastasize its behavior almost at will.

Under Chairman Bernanke's watch predatory mortgage lending flourished, and 'too big to fail' financial giants were permitted to engage in activities that put our nation's economy at risk.

The transition would be easier if women were permitted to drive (the 2011 decree failed to address that issue), but that is bound to come, too — if not this year, then soon, if only because growing ranks of employed women will build pressure for it.

California devised a simpler test; in New Jersey, students who failed were permitted to take a far easier exam that asked them only one question for each subject area.

In other words, respondents who are permitted to smoke in some areas at home are more likely to fail to quit smoking, compared to those who are permitted to smoke anywhere at home.