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• The following question needs to be asked of the Arab / Muslim countries as well as the Europeans: What is the appropriate number of Jewish lives that must first be lost before retaliation is permissible -- is it five, or 25, or should the bar be set at six million? —  Latest Articles
• The players 'association had told major leaguers the supplement was permissible, and Romero's case went to an arbitration hearing in October, the website reported. —  Sportsnet.ca - Sports News
• Explicit export subsidies in the form of time-limited direct-to-consumer vouchers redeemable towards substantially all of a country's domestically produced goods and services should be deemed permissible, and the inevitable bureaucracy should be created to quibble over the terms of the institutionalized subsidy. —  Interfluidity
• The second list contains 31 explosives which the Government is prepared to brand as permissible, and therefore comparatively safe, for use in gaseous and dusty mines. —  Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXX, Dec. 1910 Federal Investigations of Mine Accidents, Structural Materials and Fuels. Paper No. 1171
• They were beyond the orthodox of the period when it was scarcely permissible, at least among the Scotch, to take a walk for pleasure or read any but religious books on the Sabbath CHAPTER V THE TELEGRAPH OFFICE I had served as messenger about a year, when Colonel John P. Glass, the manager of the downstairs office, who came in contact with the public, began selecting me occasionally to watch the office for a few minutes during his absence. —  Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie

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