On January 24, Pope Benedict lifted the excommunication of British-born Richard Williamson and three other bishops to try to heal a 20-year-old rift that began when they were thrown out of the Church for being ordained without the permission of Pope John Paul II.

VOA: standard.2009.03.12

A few years later, his family received permission to move the body to a cemetery in the city of Baltimore.

VOA: special.2010.01.07

Florence Joplin also got permission for her son to use a piano in one of the houses she cleaned in Texarkana.

VOA: special.2010.01.24

The United States Department of Agriculture has given farmers permission to plant genetically engineered sugar beets with some conditions.

VOA: special.2011.02.15

Students who violate the terms of their visa - for example, by working off-campus without permission - could be sent home.

VOA: special.2009.01.29

But the government may give permission if students are suddenly faced with a situation that is out of their control.

VOA: special.2009.01.29

At the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, permission is needed to serve alcohol at any event on campus.

VOA: special.2009.04.02

Officials needed permission from all of the other Formula Three racers for the biodiesel WorldFirst car to compete.

VOA: special.2009.11.03

But they were also given permission to hunt buffalo in a wide area south of the reservations.

VOA: special.2010.04.01

Drug-maker Bristol-Myers Squibb hopes to get permission to sell ipilimumab by the end of the year.

VOA: special.2010.07.06

One was the failure of its editor, Benjamin Harris, to get permission to publish.

VOA: special.2009.04.20

But when Mr.Taylor reached the border, he was arrested for violating the terms of his asylum by trying to travel outside Nigeria without permission.

VOA: standard.2009.11.10

There is existing permission for the construction of up to 40,000 housing units, according to Peace Now, and construction on 600 began this year.

VOA: standard.2009.08.23

Bereket told reporters, pro-government Somali militias have permission to use Ethiopia as a base of operations in attacking al-Shabab rebels, who control large sections of southern Somalia.

VOA: standard.2009.08.20

Aung San Suu Kyi is on trial for violating the terms of her house arrest by allowing an uninvited American man to stay over without official permission.

VOA: standard.2009.06.19

But the governor of the Riau Islands refused the boat permission to land.

VOA: standard.2009.10.27