Sentence examples for we permit ourselves from inspiring English sources

We will still do it though because it's all we know, and engender little forgiveness if we permit ourselves to occasionally ask, "why am I doing this?" The Grade Cricketer's autobiography, imaginatively titled 'The Grade Cricketer', was released to the Australian market in late-2015 to coincide with the worst home Test series in history.

But he first articulated much of his thinking in his original 2001 version of Fooled by Randomness, an equally entertaining, and ostentatiously obnoxious, romp through the ways in which we permit ourselves to be deceived by chance.

In recent work, John Manchak (2009) has argued that this example is even stronger than it appears, as underdetermination persists even if we permit ourselves the assumption that all physical laws we determine locally apply throughout the universe as a whole.

So how do we permit ourselves to be vulnerable, and open up to the uncertainty risk evokes?

When we lose focus on the quality of our performance within stretches of time, we permit ourselves to indulge baser instincts - to become distracted, multitask, and coast without intention.

Or how about when we permit ourselves to send a solitary text only to be racked by regret immediately thereafter that we didn't play a little harder to get and make them work a little bit more--and then obsessively await their response anyway.

"The dilemma we are facing is whether we can permit ourselves to continue to develop with the same amount of water we have now," said Rodrigo Weisner, Chile's water director in the Public Works Ministry.

He added, "A lot is at stake; we cannot permit ourselves to live the way we did before".

We can permit ourselves to be swept along by rage, propaganda, or a mob - or we can stop.

"We cannot permit ourselves a power vacuum," he said.

We cannot permit ourselves to postpone "certain agendas" for the future.