Sentence examples for something permissible from inspiring English sources

A statutory basis does not make something permissible under international law where it violates fundamental human rights.

In Gawain's story, a beggar had kissed a queen, something permissible only when the sun appeared to stand still in the heavens, at the sunstead, the solstice, as the shortest day of the year came and went once more.

When that claim, for birthday cards, was rejected, he heard her tell her office manager to call the printer and "tell them to change it (the invoice) to something permissible".

These assert that something is permissible iff (if and only if) its negation is not obligatory, impermissible iff its negation is obligatory, omissible iff it is not obligatory, and optional iff neither it nor its negation is obligatory.

Simply because something is permissible, does not mean it's proper.

Among these, their series, Publishing the Unpublishable, provides a particular kind of eye into the question of what makes something accessible, permissible, or not.

For example, is a lie that leads to something good thereby permissible, perhaps even obligatory, or would it be forbidden simply in virtue of being a lie?

"We can argue about what the law should be," Mr. Coyle said, "but let's not tar people with misconduct because they are doing something that is permissible under the law". Some former officials said the motivation to leave was not to cash in on their expertise but the sheer exhaustion they felt after setting up a new and often maligned agency.

But Samuel Buell, a prosecutor in the case, said that he was objecting because Mr. Hardin was repeatedly trying to make arguments in the form of questions, something that is not permissible under the federal rules.

Could we even communicate with other species?" Miguel Nicolelis, a pioneer in the field, says that if invasive technology was deemed safe and ethically permissible, "doing something like controlling a car with your thoughts would be fairly trivial".

Would it have been permissible to say something?