(1) The court below read down the Act as permissive because the rules are permissive .

(2) Although it is a benign inhabitant of mucosal surfaces in most individuals, it is a significant cause of infection when host or environmental factors are permissive .

(3) These periods can be determined by using shift experiments, in which cultures are shifted between the permissive and restrictive temperature.

(4) Parents can be very permissive ; they probably don't want confrontation.

(5) It is true that many fundamental or Constitutional rights are, by their very nature, expressed in permissive , rather than mandatory terms.

(6) Some critics even believed that he and his staff were actively promoting a more permissive society.

(7) What is interesting is that you find one parent too permissive and the other too controlling.

(8) Do you ever feel that society is becoming too permissive ?

(9) Cells incubated at the permissive temperature demonstrated the typical u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu2510hill and valleyu251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu00fb appearance.

(10) The parents were permissive with or neglectful of their children, and the adolescents had developed a certain degree of independence.

(11) Liberal writers from the permissive society of the 1960s are quoted and their opinions are taken to have been effective.

(12) Two men, you might argue, played a much greater part in creating the permissive , liberal society, and neither of them were baby boomers.

(13) The cells released at the permissive temperature entered S phase and continued to cycle.

(14) The very immune cells that are activated to destroy the virus provide a permissive environment for virus propagation and persistence.

(15) There's a difference between a tolerant society and a permissive society.

(16) It is, however, to be noted that the power under s.14 is permissive and discretionary.

(17) Parents who are overly permissive , who give in to obnoxious or demanding children, are letting them know that bullying pays off.

(18) The legislation is permissive , not mandatory.

(19) Children of permissive parents tended to be relatively immature.

(20) You do not have to give up your authority as a parent or be permissive to parent in a more cooperative way.