1.   The new rule does not permit openly gay people to serve in uniform.

2.   Unfortunately the current rules permit this competitor to compete in the amateur class instead of the professional class.

3.   Another reader and a staff member both noted that had the rules permitted, they would have done the same.

4.   Archer had repeatedly told the audience that committee rules did not permit comments or demonstrations.

5.   As local rules permit, he teed up another ball and split the fairway with it.

6.   As rules permit, Sanford plucked his name from the draft and returned for his junior year.

7.   As the only swimmer from his country, international rules permitted him to compete regardless of his times in the freestyle and butterfly events.

8.   Baseball rules do not permit clubs to give a player or his representative permission to speak to another club.

9.   A municipal court decided election rules permit a candidate to be held only on order of the Supreme Court and freed him.