Sentence examples for than permit from inspiring English sources
Die-hard militarists tried to stage a coup rather than permit the emperor to surrender.
Federal laws do more than permit disclosure of such political donations: they require it.
Rather than permit them to organize organically, however, Surkov resuscitated a moribund liberal party called Right Cause.
Were they — are they — ignorant, or just unfathomably, cynically willing to precipitate national, international, and human catastrophe rather than permit Obama to claim something akin to a "victory"?
She argued back, saying that the people in India were allowed to starve rather than permit the destruction of any animals, birds, or insect.
Rather than permit a ship called the Altalena to bring in guns for a right-wing Israeli movement, he ordered it shelled.
"Taxes are better than permits," he said.
In all, Mr. Noboa spent more than $1 million on media advertisements, $800,000 more than permitted.
That meant they had fielded four foreign players in their line-up, one more than permitted.
Iraq was developing ballistic missiles with a longer range than permitted.
General Motors' brands Opel-Vauxhall also fared badly with emissions found to be 10 times higher than permitted levels.
