Sentence examples for permitted to lower from inspiring English sources

The salt spreaders stayed on the streets, but for safety reasons, they are not permitted to lower their plows until the streets are covered with at least two inches of snow.

Though the Federal Aviation Administration's lowest permitted altitude is generally 500 feet, over unpopulated areas planes are permitted to dip lower.

In part, that is because until several ago, new schools had been permitted to take lower percentages of those students in their early years.

Insiders who had sold shares in the open market were permitted to buy at lower prices.

If US Airways is permitted to use the lower estimate for the plan, some experts say, the precedent could encourage other companies to abandon their pension plans.

Greece will be permitted to run a lower primary budget surplus (before interest payments) than its current arrangements allow: one source mentions a figure of "below 1%" of GDP this year, rising to 3.5% by 2018.

During colonial times, villagers' claims to land were established through their occupation and use of land for swidden cultivation, which they were permitted to do at lower elevations, usually 100 600 m.

Facies analysis and well-log correlations permitted to evidence that Rhaetian to Lower Jurassic Messaoudi dolomites correspond to brecciated dolomites present on the Sidi Stout unconformity in the North Dahar area.

When China joined the World Trade Organization in 2001, it still qualified as a developing country and was permitted to keep trade barriers lower than other developing countries' but higher than those of most industrialized countries.

This year, more than 40 brand-name drugs — valued at $35 billion in annual sales — lost their patent protection, meaning that generic companies were permitted to make their own lower-priced versions of well-known drugs like Plavix, Lexapro and Seroquel — and share in the profits that had exclusively belonged to the brands.

Participants with HbA1c >8.0% while taking the assigned treatment were permitted to receive the glucose-lowering drugs from the opposite treatment arm to bring HbA1c within the range 7.0 8.0%.