Or could it have been that in December 1988, even in such a permissive time and place, Daphne suspected that she had somehow managed to cross a forbidden line into a social or cultural or family territory that was taboo?
Although firms have probably become more permissive since, a survey by Robert Half Technology, a recruitment agency, found in 2009 that more than half of chief information officers in America blocked the use of sites such as Facebook at work.
On a recurring basis, some young recruits, stunned by stress or by the recognition that they have stepped from the comforts of home and a permissive society into the Spartan ranks of an organization that exists to fight the nation's enemies, have been known to admit to anything to gain discharge.
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The civilian police force would be deployed only in a "permissive" environment, under Chapter 6 of the UN charter.
While Americans view imitation with disdain, the Chinese have traditionally taken a more permissive and nuanced view of it.
Mr Needham said that by adopting a "seemingly permissive attitude", the Isle of Man government was failing in its duty to protect road users.
Conversely, a prestigious brand like BMW could miss the Top 10 by being a little more permissive, without endangering its high-end image in the long run.
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After delivering a verdict of accidental death, the coroner said that by adopting a "seemingly permissive attitude", the Isle of Man government was failing in its duty to protect road users.
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The supply-side chapel in which many of us have worshiped for so many years has an odd strain running through its creed of what can only be described as a kind of permissive Puritanism: Politicians can do what they want to do as long as they do do the few things they must do right.
Yet science quickly fell by the wayside after baby Nim, screaming pitifully, was torn from his mother's arms in a birthing compound in Oklahoma and thrust into the permissive chaos of an affluent family on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
It also separated Mr Blair from Labour's reputation for being soft on crime, earned in the 1960s when Roy Jenkins, a liberalising Labour home secretary, had supposedly invented the permissive society.
Rarely did a summer pass without a teachers' strike or threat of a walkout, invariably followed by a surrender by the city, resulting in higher wages or more permissive work rules.
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