Sentence examples for to permit himself from inspiring English sources

In his fourth hour of testimony, Mr. Ashcroft was relaxed enough to permit himself a joke.

The system would also allow a user to permit himself to be tracked by another AT&T phone, either temporarily or indefinitely.

In 1973, a month before he died, the epitome of flippant British sophistication decided to permit himself a few clipped words about one last secret.

But young William Miller, much as he sips at the bad craziness around him, is too responsible to permit himself a full swallow.

President Olusegun Obasanjo, in seeking to change his country's Constitution to permit himself a third term in office, is going the way of Robert G. Mugabe of Zimbabwe.

And it is a discipline not to permit himself the fantasy that he will survive to claim his small patch of ordinary happiness (perhaps too that the husband will not), when fantasising about surviving to next week seems an indulgence.

When Bradley, working out alone, practices his set shots, hook shots, and jump shots, he moves systematically from one place to another around the basket, his distance from it being appropriate to the shot, and he does not permit himself to move on until he has made at least ten shots out of thirteen from each location.

Mr. Van Os called Mr. Burkett "a man of impeccable honesty who would not permit himself to be a party to anything fake, fraudulent or phony".

Mr. McDonald, for instance, doesn't permit himself to write about space travel.

Surely the scientist cannot permit himself to ask: What consequences will the result of my investigations have for the stature (or, for that matter, for the future) of man?

Only rarely, when confronted by instances of extreme conflict such as the arrest of Ai Weiwei or the national scandal of the hit-and-run death of Yue Yue, does Osnos permit himself to step beyond the boundaries of his carefully constructed neutrality.