Sentence examples for were permissive from inspiring English sources

The Azcárates were permissive with me, and I never felt out of place in their home.

"If the legislation were permissive rather than prescriptive, I cannot think of any plausible reason why a Conservative should object".

Once, when winters were cold and the world seemed large, creatures roamed the earth who were permissive on social issues and at ease with big government, yet remained ever faithful to the gods of business and finance.

Featuring scenes of drug addiction and homosexuality, The Soft Machine develops "attitudes that were permissive to crime by concentrating on the banal, vulgar and weak attributes of humanity", according to a report by the Turkish Prime Ministerial Board for the Protection of Children from Harmful Publications, quoted in Turkish paper Hurriyet.

Accused of furthering "attitudes that were permissive to crime by concentrating on the banal, vulgar and weak attributes of humanity", the publisher was first put on trial last summer, but a decision was taken last month in Istanbul to postpone the trial until 2015 due to the implementation of a new law.

Attitudes were permissive towards all forms of smoking.

In certain crucial matters, Spock was permissive.

Whereas section 102.111 is mandatory, section 102.112 is permissive.

"The bulk of the country today is permissive, it's secure".

He may not have meant to be permissive, but he often was.

We cannot be permissive about the behaviour of our own members.