Sentence examples for unless specifically forbidden from inspiring English sources

Frustrated businessmen often say that in English-speaking countries everything is allowed unless specifically forbidden; in Germany, it is the other way round.Mr Schröder made a useful start on tax reform in his first term by cutting corporate taxes from 52% to 39%.

Finally, they have argued that democratic majorities are entitled to rule with unfettered discretion unless specifically forbidden by the Constitution from doing so.

Companies that cut deals with an agency to resolve charges through a legal settlement typically manage to deduct the penalties as a tax write-off unless specifically forbidden from doing so.

For its part, Texas is often seen as a red-neck state, famous for public policies that strike most Americans as utterly barbaric, from allowing people to carry guns in houses of worship (unless signs specifically forbid the practice) to letting oil firms dictate environmental policies.The second lesson is that attack politics can work.

"It was never specifically allowed, and it was never specifically forbidden," Skinner explained.

Later, I was accused by the professor — correctly — of consuming his specifically forbidden knowledge.

Or one form of hate speech thrives while another is specifically forbidden.

Only one way to find out, but unfortunately that way is specifically forbidden by Apple's license.

Group plans were specifically forbidden from using it thanks to a 1997 law, he said.

But the commission's announcement was short on specifics — leaving open, for example, the question of whether Internet companies would have to secure consumers' express permission before using or sharing personal data; currently, technology companies often do this unless consumers specifically forbid them from doing so.

Instead, its citizens have always had what are known as negative rights -- that is, they have been allowed to do anything they want, unless there is a law specifically forbidding it.