"I would just feel a lot more comfortable if I felt there was a less permissive regulatory atmosphere than exists in the state of South Carolina."

Peebles did this with some glee, while, in the permissive atmosphere of La-La Land, indulging his own rather specialized appetites.

The case suggests that the permissive atmosphere gave pedophiles free rein.

Well, should we blame the alleged "permissive atmosphere" around the Cowboys?

For example, Persuasion "is subtly different from the laxer, more permissive social atmosphere of the three novels Jane Austen began before 1800."

"It's a kind of permissive atmosphere," he said.

He said that the Bush administration, "from top to bottom," had been characterized by "too much of a permissive atmosphere" when it came to business regulation.

Family feuds have given Punjab a tradition of violence dating back centuries, and in today's permissive atmosphere people use guns, not lawyers, to settle disputes.

Although the commission found that the Archbishop may not have been personally to blame for all these problems, it agreed that a "permissive" atmosphere had developed.

The permissive atmosphere should be changed.