Sentence examples for were permitted to operate from inspiring English sources

In recent years, some companies were permitted to operate only if they matched the value of their imports with exports.

In 1978 foreign banks were permitted to operate in Spain, and by the 1990s dozens of foreign banks had established branches.

The letter, written in 2007, followed a period in which the dictator's intelligence officers were permitted to operate in the UK, approaching and intimidating Libyan refugees in an attempt to persuade them to work as informants for both countries' agencies.

In 2006, the documents show, Gaddafi's intelligence officers were permitted to operate alongside MI5 on British soil, where they allegedly intimidated a number of the dictator's opponents who had been granted asylum in the UK.

Re "New Clues From the Greeneville" (editorial, Feb. 23), and how civilians were permitted to operate crucial controls on that submarine: I went to sea for a number of years, working my way up to second officer (though not on subs), and from time to time we had civilians aboard the various ships I served on.

Initially only these vehicles were permitted to operate the Eccles line but the entire fleet was modified between 2008 and 2012 for universal running, under a program known as the T-68X Universal Running programme.

But in their memo, prosecutors said Al Qaeda was "fanatically (even murderously) committed to operational security," making it "even less likely that a mere 'dupe' " would have been "permitted to operate, as the defendant did, at the very heart of Al Qaeda's embassy bombings plot".

Although nominated divers have been permitted to operate the licence on behalf of the licensee since 1992/93, potential new owner-operators were seldom able to find the capital to enable them to make an outright purchase of the increasingly valuable licences.

On the other hand the U.S. Information Service is permitted to operate freely.

Huge pools of capital have been permitted to operate virtually unregulated.

If the court struck down New Rochelle's zoning law, the club could be permitted to operate.