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How To Use permissible In A Sentence

• For example, it would be impermissible for the Society because it did not wish to offer annuities itself to use its discretion as to bonuses to make it more attractive for the policy holder to use another provider.
• But it's no longer permissible to sit on the sidelines making snide comments.
• A resistance unit has a temperature fuse between a resistance and a terminal for deactivating a resistance circuit when the motor reaches the permissible maximum temperature.
• Conduct which is justified is right, or at least permissible, in the circumstances.
• Another example of a disputed usage is whether it's permissible to use they as a singular pronoun. Times, Sunday Times
• Chapter VI. that the use of metallic copper in the construction of acetylene apparatus is not permissible or judicious, because the gas is liable to form therewith an explosive compound known as copper acetylide; it might seem, therefore, that the employment of a copper salt for purification courts accident. Acetylene, the Principles of Its Generation and Use
• Is it permissible to wear cufflinks with a precious stone in the daytime, I would call across the office. Times, Sunday Times
• But in bond-market commentary, the term basis point is permissible. Essential Guide to Business Style and Usage
• Detention without charge beyond the normal 24 hours is permissible in certain situations.
• In reaching a conclusion whether the statement can be reconciled with the map, a degree of tolerance is permissible, depending upon the relative particularity and apparent accuracy with which each document is drawn.