"There are other ways, however, to create a permissive environment," she added.

But perhaps most significantly, the Web has evolved as a relatively permissive environment.

However, administration officials have held out the possibility that U.S. soldiers would be sent into a "permissive environment."

Presumably, these are alternative euphemisms for a "peacekeeping" mission in a "permissive environment."

And finally, there was (and is) a permissive legal environment.

In the context of Rambouillet, that was a permissive environment.

Under that parsing, he intended only to put them in a "permissive environment."

I drink a lot now as an adult, and I'm sure it began for me in the permissive environment of university.

A permissive environment on campus provided the inclination.