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But on Tuesday the agency said flights were being permitted in Scotland and parts of England, but not as far south as the main London airports.

From Thomas's supporters, there were no calls for a special prosecutor, no demands to bring in the F.B.I., no expressions of outrage that Hill and the other plotters were being permitted to get away scot-free, no attempts to uphold the rule of law and the Constitutional order by ensuring that the guilty were indicted, tried, and imprisoned for their crimes.

At village hearings about plans for 58 more homes as part of Chatham's second phase, in addition to a 244-unit Ritz-Carlton Residences next door, he was alarmed to learn that developers were being permitted to build in an environmentally sensitive area in exchange for millions of dollars paid into village coffers.

The judge indicated that the defendants are being permitted to keep other discovery materials.

And indeed, the cautious youth revolution of Vietnam may fit very well into the new, open marketplace that is being permitted, step by step, by the Communist government.

Or the fact that the wacky auctioneer Tim Wonnacott from Bargain Hunt, he of the kooky waistcoats, is being permitted to dance at all.

Because of safety concerns and power outages, more than 200 residents of Lumberton were barred from spending nights in their homes but, under the watch of the New Jersey National Guard, are being permitted to begin cleaning and removing debris during daylight hours.

Ahmed Ben Bella, who has been under house arrest for the past 14 years, is being permitted to receive visitors and to move about in part of the town where he lives.

But in the case of South Orange, as in many other such settlements, the developer is being permitted to substitute cash toward construction of affordable units elsewhere without actually building anything.

On July 10, she reversed her decision and has allowed the three children to attend a Jewish Summer Camp program, and as of July 22 are being permitted to stay there until August 13.

In North Vietnam, Kissinger conducted the most savage B52 bombing of urban targets in history, as the New York Times reported in 1972: "United States military leaders are being permitted to wage the air war as they want in Indochina.