| If you're right, then society would be foolish not to just try out a little more permissiveness. |
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| Perhaps they give him the same sense of permissiveness that allowed them to find their unique artistic voices nearly 40 years ago. |
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| Even in an age of moral permissiveness, such behaviour was held to be politically unacceptable. |
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| The responses of the women generally did not support a hypothesis about greater permissiveness in sexual behavior. |
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| He's just starting his adulthood in a culture predominated by permissiveness and promiscuity. |
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| Over the course of an hour, he made several stabs at the city's permissiveness. |
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| The biotech industry has grown up in an era of almost complete permissiveness. |
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| When all things are permissible, then permissiveness loses its allure. |
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| There is no consistency between toughness when it comes to production and trafficking and permissiveness when it comes to consumption. |
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| Authoritarianism, like permissiveness, paralyses and frustrates in others the thrust to be new and creative. |
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| Ms. Suzi Leather: I think in this whole area a cautious permissiveness is probably the way forward. |
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| It is the aggressive attempt to export liberal permissiveness that causes fundamentalism to fight back vehemently and assert itself. |
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| In his world, the norm would be one of extreme social permissiveness. |
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| Or a headlong rush to even more permissiveness which the parents will regret later? |
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| However, we have a duty in our anti-drug measures not to give in to the permissiveness that so far has only caused an increase in dependence. |
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| This laxity has caused a culture of permissiveness which is beyond understanding. |
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| I did not argue that less permissiveness would lead to more violence. |
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| The actuation of the signals by an approaching train and the status of the blocks ahead dictate the degree of permissiveness that the signals can display. |
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| In addition to these losses, there is a crisis of values within the family itself to which a climate of widespread and even legalized permissiveness contributes. |
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| Once again this damage is caused by permissiveness, which, while it may satisfy the mania of some, remains a source of unhappiness for many others. |
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| While the basic appeal of fancy dress lay in its semblance of permissiveness and escapism, this sort of amusement was controlled by a complex set of moral restrictions. |
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| The permissiveness of campus life leads many college freshmen to try things they would never have experienced at home. |
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| To acknowledge that the causes of our actions are complex and muddy seems permissive, and permissiveness is the hallmark of an ideology now firmly in disgrace. |
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| And, setting aside the personal failings of his two nominees, what of his approach to aid is worth salvaging? The looser purse-strings owe something to the fiscal permissiveness of big-government conservatism. |
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| Mr Paul did not think they were, but means to suggest that their radicalisation was somehow a consequence of French permissiveness in immigration policy. |
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| It is the result of an over-abundance of material things, things which are all too often contaminated with sensuality and permissiveness and to which the communications media merely give witness. |
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| Purity also requires a purification of the social climate by means of a constant struggle against moral permissiveness which is founded on an erroneous conception of human freedom. |
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| It is no longer acceptable in this society because of the permissiveness it gives to young people in particular to think it is natural to drive in urban settings in a reckless, dangerous manner. |
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| Since the 1960s, a greater permissiveness towards regional English varieties has taken hold in education. |
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| They asked to see the difference between the freedom of speech and permissiveness, which is unacceptable. |
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| Nothing, but nothing, was ever more permissive than the permissiveness which has swamped the Church of England. |
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| No wonder youth are confused and often follow the easy tide of permissiveness. |
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| Like von Trier, Joe tries to outrun social permissiveness in chase of the vanishing forbidden, and of the satisfaction that comes, and only comes, from being told no. |
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| Lebanon has long suffered from a pervasive culture of permissiveness when it comes to physical abuse and torture, and few political factions can claim their hands are clean. |
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| Women and children ate separately, but in the later Empire period, with permissiveness creeping in, even decent women would attend such dinner parties. |
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| Permissiveness is ignoring misbehavior or failing to set reasonable limits on behavior. |
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