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Music may be permitted to speak not of specifics but the essence of grief, a collective cherishing of existence.

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He explicitly asserted that he was permitted to “consider acquitted conduct.”

The development of new pastes advanced the formation and integration of sculpture; and “paste on paste” permitted the use of incised bas-reliefs.

If state legislatures had been permitted to wrangle over abortion, Americans would have been obliged to argue with each other like grown-ups about its moral import and practical effects.

Procedures such as the repair of split ear lobes, fixing simple snoring and the reversal of male and female sterilisation are not permitted.

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