#permits

For we can affirm with a good conscience that we have, after reading the Holy Scripture, applied ourselves and yet daily apply ourselves to the extent that the grace of the Lord permits to inquiry into and investigation of the consensus of the true and purer antiquity. ↗

— Martin Chemnitz

#after #antiquity #applied #apply #conscience

Hollywood and the recording industry argue that current law permits the copying of songs and movies, and sharing them on the Internet. This enables young people to grow up learning how to steal. ↗

— Suzanne Fields

#copying #current #current law #enables #grow

Nonetheless, Article 5 makes clear that if an Iraqi civilian who is not a member of the armed forces, has engaged in attacks on Coalition forces, the Geneva Convention permits the use of more coercive interrogation approaches to prevent future attacks. ↗

— John Yoo

#armed #armed forces #article #attacks #civilian

An Indian tribe is sovereign to the extent that the U.S. permits it to be sovereign. ↗

— Russell Smith

#indian #permits #sovereign #tribe

The gracious, eternal God permits the spirit to green and bloom and to bring forth the most marvelous fruit, surpassing anything a tongue can express and a heart conceive. ↗

— Johannes Tauler

#bloom #bring #conceive #eternal #express

Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading. ↗

— John Updike

#either #government #madness #magnitude #organized

I am not officially involved now in the direction of the Teen Challenge ministry, but I rejoice that God permits me to be the father of these ministries. ↗

— David Wilkerson

#challenge #direction #father #god #i

The legal right of a taxpayer to decrease the amount of what otherwise would be his taxes, or altogether avoid them, by means which the law permits, cannot be doubted. ↗

— George Sutherland

#amount #avoid #cannot #decrease #doubted

If it was necessary to tolerate in other people everything that one permits oneself, life would be unbearable. ↗

— Georges Courteline

#life #necessary #oneself #other #people

So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#cheers #criticism #democracy #permits #two