Sentence examples for understood to allow from inspiring English sources

His suggestion was that the constitutional text at the time of its adoption could not have been understood to allow such a thing.

But it was also understood to allow universities leeway to use race as one of several "plus factors" in choosing among applicants to advance a "compelling interest" in building a diverse student body.

That system creates patterns of odor signals that are then processed in the brain, in ways still not understood, to allow the animal to identify an object and its status and respond accordingly.

But familiarity probably is not well enough understood to allow us to assess this response.

However, these complex representations must be well understood to allow some interesting improvements despite their complexity growth.

The necessary conclusion from these experiences is that the techniques of gene transfer are not yet well enough understood to allow us to have much comfort in their safe and effective use in non-therapeutic settings.

To grandstand ahead of a general election is something other leaders understand; to allow one byelection in Rochester to dictate the rules of the game is something else.

European-style Anti-Semitism is back-referenced to the Arab world, which had formerly been understood to have allowed Jews to live under the laws of the Dhimma as legitimate citizens.

The government is understood to be considering allowing schools to prioritise children from disadvantaged backgrounds in their admissions policies.

It is of enormous importance that we understand that to allow the policy of Northumbria and Cleveland forces to go unchallenged is to lose an essential right in British life.

The chief usher of the White House understood he was to allow du Pont to rearrange the furniture during his visits, but then move it back when he left.