Sentence examples for seems permissible from inspiring English sources

The occasional far-fetched fantasy — adopting a Kenyan boy who "conquers the N.F.L. and then Harvard Medical" — seems permissible.

It seems permissible to fail to have a preference between two options.

In other contexts, the liberal substitution of co-referential terms or phrases seems permissible in ascribing belief.

But it still seems permissible to pull the lever, yet wrong to push the man off the bridge.

If stringent egalitarian duties to needy people arise only because the needy participate in a scheme of cooperation with the non-needy, then strategic action to avoid the duties seems permissible.

It's easy to see and criticize obsessive worrying in others, but that kind of endless worrying suddenly seems permissible, excusable and even required when it's you who feels vulnerable or victimized.

It popularises an offensive term, making it seem permissible in the workplace, pub and playground.

The dangerous events in Dallas, in which 12 policemen were shot, made it seem permissible to repurpose a robot to apply lethal force.

Keeping my sexuality from my parents had always seemed permissible, so our sit-down chat did not stress me out as much as it might have.

What she discovered was that in many states a law more ambitious than Baltimore's -- one that didn't apply to only city contractors but to all local businesses -- seemed permissible.

Maimonides says that at first sight this kind of predication may seem permissible, but more exact speculation proves that it is incorrect, since there is no true relation between God and what is other than God (Guide I.52, transl. Pines p. 120).