How to Use impermissible in a Sentence

impermissible

adjective
  • Such behavior is impermissible under the new guidelines.
  • Both of them said their programs have now made clear that sports gambling is impermissible.
    — Matt Stahl | [email protected], al, 19 July 2023
  • That’s the standard amount for impermissible use of the helmet for a first-time offender.
    — Mark Inabinett | [email protected], al, 13 Oct. 2019
  • Keenan wrote that the school's rationale was based on an impermissible gender stereotype.
    — CBS News, 15 June 2022
  • Most centered around hundreds of impermissible phone calls to recruits.
    — Eddie Pells, Chron, 1 Apr. 2021
  • The antitrust penalties pending against Google would make that deal impermissible.
    — Ars Technica, 25 Mar. 2025
  • The speedometer must have ticked up from zero to a speed impermissible in Lusaka morning traffic jams.
    — Literary Hub, 27 Mar. 2026
  • That would not, on its face, rule the language impermissible as part of the reconciliation bill.
    — Julie Rovner, Kaiser Health News, 12 May 2017
  • The fine is the standard amount for a second-time offender for a hit on a defenseless player or impermissible use of a helmet.
    — Mark Inabinett, AL.com, 5 Jan. 2018
  • Her case is a complicated one, given that the sentence isn’t just for impermissible withdrawals.
    — Ron Lieber, New York Times, 1 June 2024
  • Mickelson blurted out the truth about the Saudis, which appears to be the impermissible thing.
    — Nr Editors, National Review, 3 Mar. 2022
  • 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
  • Since the advisors paid the bill, the meal was considered an impermissible benefit.
    — Michael Casagrande | [email protected], al, 20 Nov. 2020
  • 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
  • The latest ruling says that Google is still favoring its own products and services to an impermissible degree.
    — Ars Technica, 19 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • The statute was an impermissible incursion on the president’s power over the executive branch.
    — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 26 Dec. 2020
  • But if it is ruled impermissible, GOP lawmakers will be back at the drawing board for how to make the tax cut extension permanent.
    — Al Weaver, The Hill, 25 Mar. 2025
  • The story of Jesus and the adulteress is clearly impermissible to the Party in its original form.
    — Cameron Hilditch, National Review, 1 Oct. 2020
  • It can legally be used in military contexts as a smokescreen or a source of illumination, but its use in populated areas is impermissible.
    — Jack Lohmann, Time, 30 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • Trump raised new objections to the document requests on March 31, which James' office said is impermissible.
    — Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 7 Apr. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • There are rules for practice times, rules for travel, for summer jobs, for meals, for scholarships, for impermissible benefits, for social media, for the size of media guides and the amount of color photographs in them.
    — Mark Zeigler, sandiegouniontribune.com, 14 Oct. 2017
  • Each of these seizures comes with the same impermissible erosion of the presumption of innocence that Justice Ginsburg identified in Nelson.
    — Perry Grossman, Slate Magazine, 28 Apr. 2017
  • 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

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