Sentence examples for to be permissive from inspiring English sources
He may not have meant to be permissive, but he often was.
Estrogen was found to be permissive for tumor growth and dissemination.
By the standards of Italian society, which tends to be permissive as long as people keep their activities private, the sight of so many gay marchers was startling.
It is easy for both of these men to be permissive, in part because they have never really had to risk their climb up the hierarchical ladder by seeming to shoot wild.
Some even switch countries midway through treatment, starting in Britain, say, and travelling to Russia, Spain or America at a crucial stage in the proceedings.Related items Medical ethics: Embryonic conundrumMar 9th 2006 Reproductive technology: Not cloningOct 16th 2003Countries known to be permissive soon end up treating lots of foreign patients.
But China's willingness to be permissive with issues of privacy has been another big factor.
This suggests that each major organ may be permissive to virus entry or infection.
Therefore a delayed, downstream, increase in miR-132 may actually be permissive to long-term memory.
This change in central neurotransmission may be permissive to a series of motor responses including penile erection.
Powell traces the brittle, abrasive quality of Martin's fiction, its rootless demotic, to his bungled education (four schools in as many years) and to parenting that was permissive to a fault.
Although the restaurant's most obvious geographic allegiances are to Greece and Turkey, the cartography is permissive enough to encompass Italy, a more reliable culinary draw.
