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Ms Rawlinson added Natural Resources Wales had "permissive powers" to carry out flood risk maintenance work on main rivers, rather than legal duties.

According to allegations in interviews, lawsuits and regulatory actions, BaronHR also created a permissive environment for discrimination based on race, gender, sexual orientation and pregnancy.

We are a famously permissive state in many ways, but I’m pretty sure you can’t legally drive while dead.

Noah Bookbinder, the president of the government watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, said it seems “pretty unlikely” that Calvert violated any of Congress’ “pretty loose, and pretty permissive” conflict-of-interest laws.

Plus, he said the 2010 law expanding government oversight of the U.S. financial system is not as permissive as the SEC argued in defending the rule.