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Example sentences for "permissible"

Lexicographically close words:
permeation; permet; permettre; permis; permissibility; permission; permissionnaires; permissions; permissive; permit
  1. Hence it is not permissible to lead about a large force of soldiers.

  2. But in no circumstances was it officially permissible within the cities of Kyoto, Yedo, Osaka, and Sumpu, or in the vicinity of the shogun's shrines.

  3. What is not permissible is to declare that sensation is a psychological phenomenon, and to oppose this phenomenon to physical reality, as if this latter could be known to us by any other method than sensation.

  4. All that it seems permissible to say is that this conception is not unrealisable.

  5. But one is reluctant to part with the figure, the violence of which is permissible in an Eastern singer.

  6. It is permissible to gaze at misfortune like a traitor in order to succor it.

  7. However, he did not appear to have any broken limbs, and, by some happy chance, if that word is permissible here, the dead had been vaulted above him in such a manner as to preserve him from being crushed.

  8. Moreover, everyone can see that the public good would suffer greatly, if occult compensation were permissible when the existence of a debt is uncertain.

  9. If the act of the enemy is opposed to natural law, it is not permissible to retaliate by the same kind of acts.

  10. Per se, it is also permissible to abstain freely from all intoxicants, for the sake of some higher good (e.

  11. But, if the means employed are permissible (such as silence about himself, omission of grace before and after meals, eating meat on Fridays in virtue of dispensation, etc.

  12. Thus, if a criminal were about to blow up a building and destroy many lives, it would be permissible or even obligatory to put powerful intoxicants into his drink so as to make him helpless.

  13. The words of Pope Pius XII, that mutilations are permissible when required "to avoid.

  14. Hence, if an aggressor has taken to flight, or has been disarmed, or knocked senseless, or has begged for mercy, it is not permissible to kill him.

  15. Thus, if it were not permissible to defend valuable property even to the extent of killing a burglar, criminals would be encouraged, peaceful citizens would be at a disadvantage, and the public security would greatly suffer.

  16. Whether obligatory or permissible accusation should be preceded by a fraternal correction is controverted among moralists.

  17. It is not permissible to lend a Catholic church to non-Catholics for their services.

  18. Visits are lawful during courtship, but not the same familiarity as is permissible after engagement.

  19. Is it permissible for one appointed to distribute alms to keep some himself, if he is really poor?

  20. Union by marriage, or whatever the function may be named, is permissible between most of the other clans, the rule by which a woman may never unite herself with her inferior being always observed.

  21. But marriage is not permissible between those of any two trees or kothus: there are some restrictions.

  22. If the child stops or hesitates it is never permissible to say: "What next?

  23. If the subject forgets the statement of the problem, it is permissible to repeat it once, but only once.

  24. Generally speaking, if accurate results are to be secured it is not permissible to have any auditor, besides possibly an assistant to record the responses.

  25. It is not permissible to substitute written words or printed script, as that would make the test harder.

  26. In giving the first pair, for example, it would not be permissible to ask such additional questions as, "What do you use wood for?

  27. The only occasion when a supplementary question is permissible is in case of a response whose meaning is not clear.

  28. This is the lowest permissible limit of thoroughness.

  29. While this may be permissible with older children, in young children the power of sustained attention is so weak that no single kind of test should occupy more than two or three minutes.

  30. Re-reading is permissible only with the first sentence.

  31. It is only permissible to repeat the original question in a persuasive tone of voice, and perhaps to add: "I'm sure you can tell me how .

  32. It is not permissible to ask for the rule until all six parts of the experiment have been given.

  33. Say nothing about pouring from one vessel to another, but if the subject asks whether this is permissible the answer is "yes.

  34. Almost any innocent deception is permissible which keeps the child interested, confident, and at his best level of effort.

  35. In this year and in the memory-for-sentences test of later years it is not permissible to re-read even the first sentence.

  36. It is not permissible to re-read any of the series.

  37. Of course it is only permissible to make use of supplementary questions of this kind when they are necessary in order to clarify a response which has already been made.

  38. At each successive stage in our progress fresh contradictions break out, but the ideal of a station at which the thought-process and its other, if not one, are at one, is permissible as a limiting conception.

  39. Schleiermacher's conception of dialectic is to the effect that it is concerned with the principles of the art of philosophizing, as these are susceptible of a relatively independent treatment by a permissible abstraction.

  40. For the logical inquiry, however, it is permissible to ignore or reduce these differences.

  41. They failed to realize that permissible abstraction from specific contents or methods of knowledge does not obliterate reference to matter or content.

  42. There is a permissible abstraction, and in general they practise this, and although they narrow its range unduly, it is legitimately to be applied to certain characters of thinking.

  43. It is then permissible to think that these wall-paintings of the cathedral at Cahors are perhaps unique in France.

  44. This chateau of the bishops hangs perilously on a brow which rises high above the torrential Fontaine, and, if sentiment will not allow of its being otherwise ignored, it is permissible to visit it, if one is so inclined.

  45. Exceptions are permissible by authority of national law.

  46. Legal measures are also permissible for combatting obscene and indecent literature as well as for the protection of youth at public plays and spectacles.

  47. Such procurement of funds as well as the assumption by the Commonwealth of any financial obligation is permissible only by authority of a national law.

  48. Legal compulsion is permissible only for safeguarding threatened rights or in the service of predominant requirements of the common welfare.

  49. An interference with or abridgment of personal liberty through official action is permissible only by authority of law.

  50. Exceptions are permissible only by authority of law.

  51. You see, then, that each sex has a right to plead certain extenuations not permissible to the other sex.

  52. Things that are permissible 'only once' ought never to be done at all.

  53. In consequence of this danger such retirements are rarely permissible at night.

  54. In his own mind he held that all things which were legal were permissible in facilitating the ends of justice.

  55. But our Lord's example also shows us that the use of force is permissible in dealing with those who are so case-hardened that the appeal of love can never reach them until their present state of mind is broken up.

  56. It is, perhaps, permissible to advance the hypothesis that the personages on the slabs are representatives of the seven tribes and display their totemic devices.

  57. Then it would become permissible to kill a domestic animal privately and otherwise than by a joint sacrifice of the clan; but the old custom of justifying the slaughter by offering it to the god would still remain.

  58. It is permissible for two families to effect an exchange of girls in lieu of payment of the bride-price, this practice being known as Gunrawat.

  59. They should be cordial in tone, but brief, and are in better taste when confined to the subject of the invitation, outside items being permissible only under special circumstances which may require their mention.

  60. Contractions=, while not permissible in dignified utterance or in formal writing, are in accordance with the conversational employment of the language.

  61. But the Mufti replied that "when a Sultan took to drink it was permissible for all to do the same and for poets to celebrate it.

  62. Under these conditions, is it permissible for the actual governing body to decide as seems best upon his abdication or deposition?

  63. It is permissible to talk with them, but not to annoy them with personal attentions nor to place them under obligation by paying their bills.

  64. It is never permissible for a stranger to go to a table that is already taken if there is a vacant one available.

  65. When a woman breaks into a line it is quite permissible for the person behind her (whoever he or she may be) to say, "I beg your pardon, I was here first.

  66. Nearly always it is the wife of the man with the higher position who issues the first invitation, and it is permissible for her to invite a woman whom she does not know personally if she is the wife of a business friend of her husband.

  67. It is permissible to suggest something else in place of the thing he has asked for but it is not good manners to make fun of it or to insist upon a substitute.

  68. It is permissible to make sure that the train is the right one before getting on it, but it is unnecessary to do it more than half a dozen times.

  69. Dear Friend" is permissible in general letters sent out to persons of both sexes.

  70. It is best when these come unsolicited, though it is permissible to ask for them.

  71. Abbe Patouille replied in a tone of affectionate sorrow that his dear child had been dreaming, that he took a morbid hallucination for reality, and that it was not permissible to believe that good angels may revolt.

  72. Steel, it is true, is three times as heavy as aluminium, but it has four or five times its strength; and whereas aluminium and magnalium may with safety be given a permissible breaking strength of 60 per cent.

  73. As to the maximum number of permissible turns, rubber has rupture stress of 330 lb.

  74. He determined to question the latter if a permissible occasion arose; suddenly his interest had sharpened toward her mental situation.

  75. She hasn't moved, apparently increased her establishment; at your direction the bills were settled, and heaven knows she had no reluctance in presenting all that were permissible and a number doubtful.


  76. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "permissible" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    admissible; good; justifiable; lawful; legal; legitimate; licit; permissible; safe; warrantable