For its first 15 years or so, the society permitted only year-round women as full-fledged members.

But because society is organized around individual and small group interests, society permits crime to persist.

Every society, including liberal Western society, permits compulsory treatment of mental patients.

So perhaps war and economic depressions produce great art, but only if society permits a space for their free expression.

A free society cannot permit anyone, government, corporation, church, or individual, to decide what may and what may not be published.

"Thank you for stopping by," she said, as coldly as civil society would permit.

I don't think society should permit this grisly business.

"A civilized society cannot permit this waste of human life."

Few other societies, even the most democratic, would permit such murderous talk.

Why is it that society cannot permit itself to accept the fact that most doctors mean well?