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Example sentences for "permissive"

Lexicographically close words:
permissibility; permissible; permission; permissionnaires; permissions; permit; permits; permitt; permitte; permitted
  1. Next in order to the Secocoeni peace came the question of Confederation, as laid down in Lord Carnarvon's Permissive Bill.

  2. The Volksraad treated this Bill in much the same way as they had dealt with the Permissive Confederation Bill, gave it a casual consideration, and threw it out.

  3. And he proceeds to consider the two alternatives: the Permissive Popular Veto, and the Popular Control by an unfettered Licensing Board.

  4. Let them reflect that not a fact, which ceases afterwards to be a fact, can come into being or go out of it, without, at least, the permissive sanction of Almighty God.

  5. To Providence they refer evil as well as good, with this difference, that good and unblamable evil they ascribe to the decrees of his sovereign direction, but blamable evil they ascribe to his permissive decree.

  6. This was another form of the original 'Permissive Bill.

  7. The United Kingdom Alliance was so busy promoting petitions in favour of a Permissive Bill which every one knew had no chance of success, that it had no energy to spare for helping on the Government.

  8. Lawson introduced his famous Permissive Bill, embodying the demands of the Alliance, to the House of Commons.

  9. Pray what is this Permissive Bill, That some folks rave about?

  10. As they are privileged by the emperor, the council is to protect them, and no longer has the power to banish those who have obtained 'permissive residence.

  11. The old "permissive residence" of the Jews in Worms and Frankfort was abolished by Matthias, who introduced a new regulation, recommended by the commissioners in 1617.

  12. Not more than six new families a year could be granted "permissive residence," and only twelve couples a year could get married.

  13. My thesis now is this: that, when we think of the law that thought is a function of the brain, we are not required to think of productive function only; we are entitled also to consider permissive or transmissive function.

  14. We have also releasing or permissive function; and we have transmissive function.

  15. There had been a pause in legislation, except of a permissive kind.

  16. But the act was not limited to permissive legislation.

  17. St. Andrew's Hall, Norwich, in furtherance of the Permissive Bill.

  18. He wished to see free schools, but in this Act contented himself with securing permissive legislation, which he believed would soon lead to the adoption of a free system.

  19. His fanatical expressions of dislike to the French are merely a Nelsonian way of conveying to the world that the existence of so dangerous a race should be permissive under strictly regulated conditions.

  20. There can be no doubt now that the signal 39 was not permissive or optional, nor that Nelson, having the enemy by the throat, refused to let go until he had strangled him, nor that he did dramatically act the blind-eye trick.

  21. Whether this be a voluntary purgation in goodly imitation of the National Temperance League, the effect of Sir Wilfrid Lawson's Permissive Bill and most permissive wit and wisdom, or the work of the Good Templars, we need not stay to inquire.

  22. The Permissive Prohibitory Liquors Bill, as Sir Wilfred Lawson describes it, provides that no public-houses shall be permitted in any district, provided that two-thirds of its population agree that they should be dispensed with.

  23. Sir Wilfred Lawson is the acknowledged head and champion of the party, and its news on the all-important subject are summed up in a Permissive Prohibitory Liquor Bill.

  24. I cannot do better than wind up these brief extracts by reproducing the loudly-applauded objections of the Home Secretary, Mr. Bruce, to the Permissive Prohibitory Liquor Bill.

  25. The Bill was called a ‘Permissive Bill;’ but had the rules of the House permitted, it might with truth be called a Bill for the Repression of Pauperism and of Crime.

  26. The early state legislation, as had been the case with the common schools, was nearly always permissive and not mandatory.

  27. Should this permissive consolidation prove ineffective after a limited period, the authority of the Government will have to be directly invoked.

  28. With all the temptations young people face, it sometimes seems the allure of the permissive society requires superhuman feats of self-control.

  29. But succeeding the adoption of the permissive clause in the Berne convention of 1886, it was proposed in the new copyright law to free mechanical reproductions from the control of the composer.

  30. He first enumerates God's attributes sonorously, then celebrates his ownership of everything in earth and Heaven, and the dependence of all that happens upon his permissive will.

  31. To this there came both a series of exceptions to the classification and a series of directions as to the practical segregation in daily life, additional to or inconsistent with the classification; some of them permissive and others mandatory.

  32. Said he: "Baptisms for the dead was a permissive rite.

  33. Here is the rule: "By terms stated in the revelation this permissive rite could be performed and would be acceptable if performed in the river while the time given the Church in which the Temple should be built was passing.

  34. The permissive school encouraged it; if Jimmy Holden preferred to tinker with a typewriter instead of playing noisy games, his teacher saw no wrong in it--for his Third Grade teacher was something of an intellectual herself.

  35. The same permissive school that graduated dolts so that their stupid personalities wouldn't be warped would keep him back by virtue of the same idiotic reasoning.


  36. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "permissive" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.