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permitting
adjective as in consenting
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He promised to quickly expedite permitting and fracking - "We’re drilling, drilling, drilling," he told Fox News host Sean Hannity last year.
Some politicians and groups oppose legally permitting assisted dying.
Now a law permitting gene-edited food to be sold in the UK has been paused and some British scientists warn they could be overtaken by other countries.
Permitting federal agents to target inmates for deportation, critics say, led to the forced separation of “thousands of families.”
Having dueling ballot measures may have been confusing, and in a red state like Nebraska, a law permitting abortion until 12 weeks might have struck much of the electorate as reasonable.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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