Sentence examples for they were permissible from inspiring English sources

Whether they were permissible on Thursday is not so clear to the commission, but there is no question that some banks had decided that they could interpret the guidance in a way that left people in New York but not subject to United States law.

Even if these ads, known as "electioneering communications," clearly attacked the positions of one candidate, they were permissible unless they were "susceptible of no reasonable interpretation other than as an appeal to vote for or against a specific candidate".

The Supreme Court reasoned that such laws were permissible because they did not single out religious practices -- rather, they had neutral language and just happened to affect certain faiths adversely.

By that standard, the regulations were permissible because they served the city's important interest in public safety, he wrote.

Pursuing film as a vocation risked "consuming the house" – but documentaries were permissible, since they told the "truth".

As a practical matter, the future of the school-choice movement depended on the answer to the question Locke v. Davey brought to the court: if vouchers were permissible, were they also constitutionally required?

PHH maintains that the profits it received as a result of the referrals were permissible, since they fall under RESPA's exception for "bona fide salary or compensation... for services actually performed".

Similar to Figure 1, multiple responses were permissible.

Or even that they had been permissible.

Three of the country's 11 supreme court judges have also rebuked the president for using the word "coup" to describe a process that they say is permissible under the constitution.

In many other areas of science, they argue, it is permissible to talk of certain phenomena as if they were discrete entities, even though the terms involved are really nothing more than convenient ways of referring, at a certain level of generality, to complex patterns of objects or events.