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The investors and banks called their actions reasonable first steps in dealing with delinquent borrowers and in line with what the federal agencies were permitting.

From New York Times • Jul. 16, 2018

Slightly firmer commodity prices were permitting inventories to be marked at satisfactory figures, while production in iron and steel, as well as in other basic industries, continued to advance.

From Time Magazine Archive

Government that France would not go beyond her Armistice commitments to the Nazis, the Nazis were permitting Vichy to build an air force for defense of the French Empire.

From Time Magazine Archive

Some of these officials—notably the secretaries of the Board of Foreign Missions— had been attacked on the grounds that they were permitting unorthodox Presbyterians to serve as missionaries.

From Time Magazine Archive

They were permitting all that they had as being living.

From Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein With Two Shorter Stories by Stein, Gertrude