Sentence examples for were licit from inspiring English sources

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were licit

adjective

Not forbidden by formal or informal rules.

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There is also, for instance, the case of Irisl, an Iranian government-owned shipping line that the United States blacklisted in 2008, charging that because it routinely used front companies and misleading terms to shroud shipments of banned arms and other technology with military uses, it was impossible to tell whether its shipments were "licit or illicit".

About 40% of substances detected at postmortem examinations were illicit and about 60% were licit.

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Chelsea's approach is licit and it was almost effective but it is pretty miserable for a team that has spent €500m in four years.

Taxpayers may wonder why the existing deep-pocket system came to be licit, why their elected public servants can (must?) routinely behave as crass mendicants.

And despite the 21% reduction this year, there is no doubt that the danger that Afghanistan will become a narco-state remains real.While being politely careful to express their gratitude for a study that "offers an alternative option", western officials are in private worried that the suggestion that opium production could be licit might confuse Afghan farmers.

Rather than continue to be mired in the vexatious quagmire of the doctrine of double effect--all in an effort to "test" whether end-stage decisions by health care providers are licit or illicit--a relatively simple test of proportionality, or cost-benefit analysis, is proffered.

It rapidly moved on to a format where player armour was dispensed with, every form of violence possible without actual weapons was licit and, finally, where teams were consciously structured on racial and other group lines (there was a gay team, for instance) to improve audience identification with the sides.

The first was whether it was licit for a creditor to receive interest on a forced loan.

Wherever disagreement was licit and impossible to extirpate by argument, the claims of all sides counted as merely probable.

It has always been taken at least to be licit to appeal to logical vocabulary in elaborating the relation between analysandum and analysans target vocabulary and base vocabulary and, according to stronger versions of this thesis, that may be the only vocabulary it is licit to employ in that capacity.

When a physician pulls a feeding tube, is she "merely omitting" to do something, which would presumably be licit, or is she actually doing something, i.e., removing the tube, which would presumably be illicit?

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