permitting

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The project also underscores the need for permitting reform to help expedite the planning and approval process for similar projects moving forward, the senator said.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 18, 2026

The law leaves it up to cities to create policies for permitting and regulation.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 16, 2026

Judge Winmill observed that the nation’s history and traditions recognized “a right to self-protection and self-preservation” permitting otherwise unlawful acts “when necessary to prevent harm to oneself or another.”

From Slate • Jun. 16, 2026

Amid a major outcry from supporter groups and politicians, Fifa backed down, permitting fans to take in sealed, disposable water bottles after all.

From BBC • Jun. 9, 2026

Might gravity tunnels provide a kind of interstellar or intergalactic subway, permitting us to travel to inaccessible places much more rapidly than we could in the ordinary way?

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan