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Administration lawyers also approved the "enhanced interrogation techniques" and said they were legally permissible.

[But] it is permissible to separate them if the children are grown and mature.

Question 7: Is it permissible to separate a mother from her children through [the act of] buying and selling?

The consensus leans toward forbidding it, though some people of knowledge think it permissible.

(2)  If a creative professional wants to volunteer to help a for-profit business, that is permissible.

If this were not permissible, the number of the grandest creations of artistic genius would be most seriously limited.

According to our creed it was not permissible for a gentleman, drunk or sober, to mention a lady's name in a place like that.

Nor are serene and even joyous moods so rare that it would be permissible to ignore them.

The cuffs and collar must be of plain linen, no color or flutter of ribbon being anywhere permissible.

Upon what, then, is based the opinion that divorce is permissible in case of infidelity on the part of the woman?

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On this page you'll find 39 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to permissible, such as: acceptable, admissible, bearable, lawful, legitimate, and permitted.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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