Sentences with 'permitted'
Example sentences and phrases with the word permitted and other words derived from it.
• « By Roman law slaves were held in such a subordinate position by the law that a slave's testimony was only permitted in court cases if it had been obtained by torture. »
• « However, some feelings are socially and culturally permitted - and therefore favoured - while others are censored and repressed. »
• « In the land ordinances, the Confederate Congress created the Mississippi and Southwestern territories and stipulated that slavery would be permitted there. »
• « Annexation would almost certainly mean war with Mexico, and the admission of a state with a large slave population, though permitted by the Missouri Compromise, would bring the slavery issue back to the forefront. Texas had no choice but to organise itself as an independent Lone Star Republic. »