Example Sentences

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County case and others raise questions about “where are the lines that you draw for what courts can permissibly require parents to do with threat of a custody loss.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 6, 2022

And: “Congress can permissibly criminalize certain obstructive conduct by the President, such as suborning perjury, intimidating witnesses, or fabricating evidence.”

From Slate • May 29, 2019

“The evidence leaves no doubt that Harvard permissibly seeks those educational benefits in the flexible, non-mechanical manner permitted by the Supreme Court,” the university said in its latest legal brief.

From Washington Post • Jul. 27, 2018

“As to the one unnamed legal client, we do not believe that Mr. Cohen should be asked to reveal the name or can permissibly do so,” the letter said.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 16, 2018

But the earning of what may permissibly be spent on self is spur enough; there is no need of inordinate luxury to foster faithfulness and exertion.

From Problems of Conduct by Drake, Durant