Antonym: compelling. Similar words: permission, permissible, intermission, submissive, submissively, near miss, epidermis, missing. Meaning: [pər'mɪsɪv /pə-] adj. 1. not preventive 2. granting or inclined or able to grant permission; not strict in discipline.
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31. Virginia's gun laws are generally permissive.
32. Single parents are more likely to be permissive.
33. Public access is the most permissive access level.
34. First, democracy is basically a permissive system.
35. Three is a permissive type.
36. Private access is the least permissive access level.
37. Markets are the most permissive places in the world.
38. It is to pass permissive ability to use beforehand inside KTV, have very big distinction.
39. Caption: Packaged: Despite outspoken international protest, attitudes in Japan are still permissive regarding whale hunting.
40. It turned out-- and this was news to most of us -- that the spam filter could be set by each user to be as aggressive or as permissive as each of us wished.
41. The Financial Services Authority ( FSA ) was one of the most permissive big supervisors in the world.
42. Methods We treated 9 neonates who suffered respiratory failure with Bear 750-PSV ventilator in which we used the new method of low volume and permissive hypercapnia ventilation.
43. While not explicitly repudiating the Frye rule, the Federal Rules adopt a more permissive approach.
44. There are four kinds of analytic causatives: permissive and periphrastic and particle-marked causative constructions and isolating in ancient Chinese.
45. Also, some more restrictive societies show less left - handedness in their populations than other more permissive societies.
46. It also describes feasibility of permissive hypercapnia ventilation and top limit of carbonemia . It emphasises that hypercapnia is not the final goal seeked by ventilation.
47. These cells exhibited the glycopetide pattern characteristic of transformed cells when grown at the permissive temperature.
48. Transplantation of highly permissive Schwann cell - enriched peripheral nerve grafts may enhance regeneration in spinal cord injury.
49. These cells exhibited the glycopeptide pattern characteristic of transformed cells when grown at the permissive temperature.
50. The paper gives solutions to the problems with lighting circuit of permissive aspect of block signal of existing automatic block section according to relevant specifications.
51. Objective To study the effects of permissive hypercapnia (PHC) on pulmonary mechanics and hemodynamics in sheep with acute lung injury (ALI).
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52. Forcing states to accept the permits of the most permissive jurisdictions would be an assault on states' rights, says Mark Glaze of Mayors Against Illegal Guns, a pressure group.
53. This kind of permissive environment has influenced people to have liberal and permissive attitude towards premarital and extramarital sex.
54. The climate was permissive, supportive, and approving of mind control experimentation.
55. By the algorithm formulated in this study, a liveness-enforcing supervisor of FMS with simple structure and maximally permissive behavior can be found.
56. First, about 50,000 " old " pesticides had been registered under permissive pre - 1972 safety and testing requirements.
57. Finally, a liveness-enforcing supervisor with simple structure and maximally permissive behavior is obtained by eliminating redundant control places.
58. And while the super-bubble lasted his analysis of the costs and benefits of his permissive policies was not totally wrong.
59. But efforts by progressives to break up trusts failed because, like Standard Oil at the time, they could simply move to less reform-minded states with more permissive commercial laws.
60. Single transducer's multi - meterage has more permissive possiblities what make for a wider choice of applications.
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