Words similar to letting

Example sentences for: letting

How can you use “letting” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

His desire to use literary criticism as a weapon on the side of the oppressed sits athwart the pleasure he takes in letting his mind play over the meaning in a novel or a poem.
George Bush signed a law letting judges offer castration as an option for perpetrators of sex crimes.
With difficulty, Barbara Bodine, the U.S. ambassador to Yemen, tried to persuade the Yemeni government to accept these visitors and allow them to carry arms, though the Yemenis balked at letting Americans openly carry long guns (rifles, shotguns, automatic weapons).
Other recent examples include the alleged off-camera tantrums had by Bill Clinton and Janet Reno over the belated discovery of the coffee videos, and yesterday's report about how somebody high up in the White House nearly throttled an ATF agent over the discovery that ATF was letting scads of assault weapons into the country.
As for blaming HBES in particular and evolutionary psychologists in general: Culturebox was mistaken to rap the officers' knuckles for letting MacDonald hold executive positions--he was elected to them, not appointed.