How to Use impermissible in a Sentence

impermissible

adjective
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  • Such behavior is impermissible under the new guidelines.
  • That’s the standard amount for impermissible use of the helmet for a first-time offender.
    — Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al, 13 Oct. 2019
  • Both of them said their programs have now made clear that sports gambling is impermissible.
    — Matt Stahl | Mstahl@al.com, al, 19 July 2023
  • Mickelson blurted out the truth about the Saudis, which appears to be the impermissible thing.
    — Nr Editors, National Review, 3 Mar. 2022
  • For the most part, Judge Suddaby found that many of those restrictions were likely to be impermissible.
    — Jonah E. Bromwich, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2022
  • But the embraces between the prosecutors and the judge drew ire from court watchers and the defense bar, which saw it as an example of impermissible bias.
    — Rafael Olmeda, Sun Sentinel, 4 Nov. 2022
  • There were groups in Myanmar that begged Facebook to stop what many people — and indeed, Facebook’s own rules — regarded as the kind of speech that should be impermissible.
    — Washington Post, 17 Oct. 2019
  • The story of Jesus and the adulteress is clearly impermissible to the Party in its original form.
    — Cameron Hilditch, National Review, 1 Oct. 2020
  • The league dubbed the topic impermissible and said that persons asking such questions would be subject to discipline.
    — Geoffrey C. Arnold, OregonLive.com, 8 Mar. 2018
  • Keenan wrote that the school's rationale was based on an impermissible gender stereotype.
    — CBS News, 15 June 2022
  • In the Missouri case, a federal judge blocked the state law in March, calling it an impermissible attempt to preempt federal law and a threat to public safety.
    — Ann E. Marimow, Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2023
  • When does an op-ed that Weintraub or the mavens of Silicon Valley disagree with or don’t like become an impermissible effort to mislead?
    — Hans A. Von Spakovsky, National Review, 12 Sep. 2019
  • That recording, which appeared to be taken from inside the bargaining room, Trull said, underscores why the Zoom streams are impermissible.
    — Lauren Kaori Gurley, Washington Post, 16 Nov. 2022
  • Since the advisors paid the bill, the meal was considered an impermissible benefit.
    — Michael Casagrande | McAsagrande@al.com, al, 20 Nov. 2020
  • In the Masterpiece Cakeshop decision, the Court ruled for the baker on the ground that the Colorado civil-rights commission had displayed an impermissible animus against his faith.
    — David D. Kirkpatrick, The New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2023
  • Trump raised new objections to the document requests on March 31, which James' office said is impermissible.
    — Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 7 Apr. 2022
  • The Supreme Court has consistently — on matters ranging from free speech to religious liberty and beyond — granted the state an impermissible amount of power to fight the scourge of drugs.
    — David French, National Review, 12 Aug. 2019
  • But the impermissible benefits that long got college sports programs in trouble—cash from boosters, fast cars and the like—are now allowed under college football’s new rules.
    — Laine Higgins, WSJ, 2 Sep. 2022
  • Most centered around hundreds of impermissible phone calls to recruits.
    — Eddie Pells, Star Tribune, 1 Apr. 2021
  • The tweet was later deleted, but lawmakers shared screenshots and said Jakows appeared to be describing what would amount to an impermissible gift under the legislature’s ethics rules.
    — Steven Porter, BostonGlobe.com, 31 May 2023
  • Monday's ruling upheld the challenges in only one instance, declaring House District 90, in the Fort Worth area, to be an impermissible racial gerrymander.
    — NBC News, 25 June 2018
  • The issue in the case is whether the coach's prayers amounted to a permissible exercise of the coach's rights to free speech and free exercise of religion, or whether the prayers were an impermissible establishment of religion by the government.
    — Jeffrey Toobin, CNN, 25 Apr. 2022
  • Additionally, the report concluded that the Dolphins again had impermissible contact with Brady and his agent, Don Yee, during and after the 2021 season.
    — Lorenzo Reyes, USA TODAY, 2 Aug. 2022
  • The statute was an impermissible incursion on the president’s power over the executive branch.
    — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 26 Dec. 2020
  • In a third violation, Orgeron was also found to have had impermissible contact with a recruit in January 2019.
    — Creg Stephenson | Cstephenson@al.com, al, 10 Dec. 2020
  • The league also rescinded the Aces’ first-round pick in the 2025 draft for violating league rules regarding impermissible player benefits.
    — Doug Feinberg, Chicago Tribune, 16 May 2023
  • That would make Hardaway’s 2017 gift to the player’s family impermissible under guidelines for boosters.
    — Teresa M. Walker, The Denver Post, 14 Nov. 2019
  • He was hired by Houston in 2014 after serving a five-year show-cause penalty for violations involving impermissible calls and text messages to recruits.
    — Andrew Keh, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2023
  • If Twitter were such a forum, almost all content blocking would be an impermissible prior restraint.
    — Vivek Ramaswamy, WSJ, 26 Apr. 2022
  • Alcohol consumption, impermissible in Islam, is one of the areas where the country has been attempting to strike a delicate balance.
    — Mariam Fam, ajc, 20 Nov. 2022

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