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  • adjective Not permissive.

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non- +‎ permissive

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Examples

  • Contracted police trainers often cannot or will not operate in nonpermissive environments, thus confning their training to the capital city or secure areas while leaving unsecured remoter areas of a country without desperately needed police trainers and mentors, as is often the case in Iraq and Afghanistan today.

    David Isenberg: The Liability of Using a PMC to Do Foreign Police Training David Isenberg 2010

  • Contracted police trainers often cannot or will not operate in nonpermissive environments, thus confning their training to the capital city or secure areas while leaving unsecured remoter areas of a country without desperately needed police trainers and mentors, as is often the case in Iraq and Afghanistan today.

    David Isenberg: The Liability of Using a PMC to Do Foreign Police Training David Isenberg 2010

  • The original experiments reconstituting GroEL-GroES-mediated protein folding were carried out under "nonpermissive" conditions, where the chaperonin system was absolutely required and substrate proteins could not achieve the native state if diluted directly from denaturant into solution.

    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences current issue A. C. Apetri 2008

  • New York minute noir nomen nomenclature nomination nonpermissive environment nonspecific plural pronoun noodge no spring chicken now nuclear, pronunciation of null and void nutraceuticals

    No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

  • Now, from the war that brought us nonpermissive environment, we have a distinction drawn between disarm and demilitarize.

    No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

  • Now, from the war that brought us nonpermissive environment, we have a distinction drawn between disarm and demilitarize.

    No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

  • New York minute noir nomen nomenclature nomination nonpermissive environment nonspecific plural pronoun noodge no spring chicken now nuclear, pronunciation of null and void nutraceuticals

    No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

  • Now, from the war that brought us nonpermissive environment, we have a distinction drawn between disarm and demilitarize.

    No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

  • Now, from the war that brought us nonpermissive environment, we have a distinction drawn between disarm and demilitarize.

    No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

  • New York minute noir nomen nomenclature nomination nonpermissive environment nonspecific plural pronoun noodge no spring chicken now nuclear, pronunciation of null and void nutraceuticals

    No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

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