Cass and Douglas supported the idea of letting the people of a territory decide if slavery would be permitted in that territory.

VOA: special.2009.04.16

He said women must have the right to vote in elections, and be permitted to hold political office.

VOA: special.2009.05.24

During a fight, the wrestlers use moves that would never be permitted in a real wrestling match.

VOA: special.2010.02.19

Bank offices would be permitted in any state where the state legislature did not immediately refuse permission.

VOA: special.2009.01.29

She was the first woman to be permitted to work in combat areas during World War Two.

VOA: special.2009.05.17

She took action so that she and her musicians would be permitted to stay in those hotels.

VOA: special.2010.05.23

But they may be permitted in areas established as national preserves, recreation areas, seashores or lakeshores.

VOA: special.2009.09.28

He said territorial governments should be formed in the other parts of the western territories, with no immediate decision on whether slavery would be permitted.

VOA: special.2009.03.19

An immigrant who could not, would not be permitted to enter the country.

VOA: special.2010.05.20

No ship would be permitted to enter or leave.

VOA: special.2009.07.23

South of the line, slavery would be permitted.

VOA: special.2009.07.23

They also demanded that the city hire black bus drivers and that anyone be permitted to sit in the middle of the bus and not have to get up for anyone else.

VOA: special.2009.03.08

He says fear must not be permitted to rule the day.

VOA: standard.2009.05.21

Those who decide to run will be permitted. But he says anyone who tries to make trouble during the campaign will be publicly condemned because no one has the right to block the vote.

VOA: standard.2009.08.25

The glasses permitted me to look around the apartment while I seemed only to be talking to him.

VOA: special.2009.12.26

In fact, from nineteen fifteen to nineteen fifty-two, the Supreme Court permitted censorship of movies for fear they could be "used for evil."

VOA: special.2011.07.04

He permitted about eighty thousand government jobs to be taken from Republicans and given to Democrats.

VOA: special.2010.05.06

Jews were not permitted to be scientists during the nineteen thirties in Italy.

VOA: special.2009.05.13

It also is probably what a number of reporters said earlier this month when they were permitted to see a machine that will be sent to the planet Mars.

VOA: special.2011.04.26

One reason was because the company permitted people to be creative.

VOA: special.2009.05.11

And Little Havana's population swelled again during six months in 1980, when more than 100,000 Cubans were permitted to leave Castro's island en masse in what came to be called the Mariel Boatlift.

VOA: standard.2010.04.19