Sentence examples for were given leave to from inspiring English sources

Some were given leave to go to London to celebrate, but I was on duty on the boat, so I didn't get the chance.

After the outcome of the criminal trial, the birth parents asked for and were given leave to appeal the family court's initial findings of abuse.

Members from this church were given leave to form a church in Hornby and Mud Creek in the 1830's, in Oak Hill in 1849 and in Campbell in 1874.

Not long afterwards, police were given leave to clear the steps themselves, the site of former Canon Chancellor Giles Fraser's famous intervention of 16 October, when he asked the police to leave and recognised our right to assemble.

While the white naval workers at Port Chicago were given leave to help them recover from the devastation, Meeks and more than 300 other black enlistees were put right back to work and ordered to load more munitions at a new site, Mare Island, 15 miles closer to San Francisco.

Similar cakes have been baked in these isles since medieval times; the name is likely to have come from the Latin simila, meaning fine wheat flour, and though for a time they were associated with Mothering Sunday – when servants were given leave to visit their homes, cake in tow – they make more sense at the end of Lent, when people could be free again with the butter, sugar and pricy dried fruit.

The United Kingdom was given leave to intervene in support of the defendants.

He was given leave to go home, to his wife who was expecting a child.

If they are deemed true asylum seekers, they are given leave to stay in Papua New Guinea.

Only two have been convicted and one of them has now been given leave to appeal.

A man from Fukuoka, Tatsushiro Koga, was given leave to "develop" the islands.