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per mi suh buhl

  • a  that may be permitted especially as according to rule
    permissible behavior in school
    a permissible tax deduction
  • s  that may be accepted or conceded
    a kind of speculation that was permissible in cosmology but inadmissible in medicine

  • In crafting that legislation, French lawmakers sought to draw a fine line between allowing terminal patients to die and active euthanasia, or mercy-killing, which is permissible .
  • But is it constitutionally permissible? And even if it is, is this the kind of open-ended mental-health experiment the government should be running?.
  • Now it is free love, as students, former students and nonstudents continue to test the limits of the permissible at Berkeley.
News & Articles

  • Board restores two reasons for transfers
    Permissible reasons for attendance area transfers in the Warren County School District are now more narrow than they used to be, but not as narrow as the administration originally proposed.
    June 13, 2013 - Warren Times Observer
Quotes

  • Michael Mukasey in Washington Post
    I have said many times, both to members of the public and to department employees, it is neither permissible nor acceptable to consider political affiliations in the hiring of career department employees,Mukasey said in a statement shortly...
  • Steve Spurrier in ESPN
    I didn't accuse you of cheating,Spurrier said, while pointing at Kiffin. "I said, 'Is it permissible to call recruits before he's announced as head coach, before you take the test?'"

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