The law permits individuals to refuse any type of medical care, including hospitalization, even if that decision would result in physical harm or death.

Mr. Gorbachev has embraced some of those measures, including new laws permitting individuals and small cooperatives to open private businesses.

This permitted common individuals to engage the British in revolution, without employing violence or other distasteful means.

Culture is a major human adaptation, permitting individuals and populations to adapt to widely varying local ecologies.

Demand for the machines is likely to double, officials say, under a forthcoming law permitting individuals to set up small enterprises like home sewing.

Music, as an active art form, can permit individuals who have little else in common to share and communicate in public despite differences on other fronts.

Permitting individuals to buy health insurance across state lines.

A separate provision would permit individuals to realize up to $1,000 each year in capital gains without having to pay any tax.

He imposed a flexible organization that permitted talented individuals to find a place on one or more teams.

That law permitted religious individuals and entities to challenge every law in the country in federal court.