(n.) Authority or liberty given to do or forbear any act; especially, a formal permission from the proper authorities to perform certain acts or to carry on a certain business, which without such permission would be illegal; a grant of permission; as, a license to preach, to practice medicine, to sell gunpowder or intoxicating liquors.
(n.) The document granting such permission.
(n.) Excess of liberty; freedom abused, or used in contempt of law or decorum; disregard of law or propriety.
(n.) That deviation from strict fact, form, or rule, in which an artist or writer indulges, assuming that it will be permitted for the sake of the advantage or effect gained; as, poetic license; grammatical license, etc.
(v. t.) To permit or authorize by license; to give license to; as, to license a man to preach.
Example Sentences:
(1) "The level of the financial penalty to be imposed in this case should be sufficient to act as an effective incentive [to all broadcast licence holders] to continue to provide all elements of their respective licensed services throughout the licensed period, even if the licensee believes that there are commercial reasons for it to cease providing all or part of the licensed service during the licence period," the regulator added.
(2) Therefore, a comprehensive study of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 report forms was conducted from state-licensed testing laboratories in California.
(3) Instead, it was argued that abortion was a surgical procedure outside the expertise of CNMs and should only be performed by licensed physicians.
(4) Pope Francis’s no-longer-secret meeting in Washington DC with anti-gay activist Kim Davis, the controversial Kentucky county clerk who was briefly jailed over her refusal to issue same-sex marriage licenses in compliance with state law, leaves LGBT people with no illusions about the Pope’s stance on equal rights for us, despite his call for inclusiveness.
(5) Tension heightened last week after Davis continued to refuse licenses to couples; on Friday, she filed a request to the supreme court to stay the lower court’s decision.
(6) Two antiviral agents are licensed to treat HIV infection: zidovudine and didanosine.
(7) Cal Zastrow, also with the group, said that, although he has stood by Davis throughout the ordeal, he wouldn’t support the clerk’s policy to allow deputies to issue licenses without her authorization.
(8) "Hints that the license fee payer will be hit are the closest the Tories come to explaining how they intend to pay for this."
(9) The currently licensed parenteral cholera vaccine has not been a useful public health tool in the control of cholera.
(10) Golding said the government would not soften its stance on drug trafficking and it intended to use a proportion of revenues from its licensing authority to support a public education campaign to discourage pot-smoking by young people and mitigate public health consequences.
(11) Formal audits of the continuing medical education activities of physicians licensed in Michigan were undertaken to assess compliance with a law mandating participation in 150 hours of continuing medical education each 3 years.
(12) The Mail branded the deal "a grim day for all who value freedom" and, like the Times, accused David Cameron of crossing the Rubicon and threatening press freedom for the first time since newspapers were licensed in the 17th century.
(13) Workmen's Compensation claims from 193 licensed Florida hospitals were reviewed for 1970 to 1972, to seek possible nosocomial infection, and 55 claims for infection were found.
(14) In 2010, Path licensed the Silcs design to Kessel Marketing & Vertriebs GmbH (Kessel) of Frankfurt, Germany.
(15) When it was first licensed for the European food market six years ago, baobab was – with a certain inevitability –proclaimed a superfood to rival quinoa, blueberries and kale.
(16) In a statement the club said: "We currently are in discussions with multiple parties regarding our global retail, apparel and product licensing business starting in the 2015-16 season.
(17) "Prime-time dramas aren't usually properties that are licensed [for merchandising] with the exception of the family-orientated Doctor Who.
(18) The unexpected announcement by Eric Holder, the attorney general, contradicts Utah’s refusal to recognise some 1,300 same-sex marriages that were licensed during a brief window in December when a federal judge ruled the state’s ban was unconstitutional .
(19) Last week, Jindal told a conference that corporate America has fashioned an “unnatural alliance with the radical left” by opposing so-called religious freedom bills that gay rights activists fear would give businesses a license to discriminate.
(20) Davis has said she will not resign her $80,000-a-year job and will never issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples – even if the supreme court denies her request.
Licensee
Definition:
(n.) The person to whom a license is given.
Example Sentences:
(1) "The level of the financial penalty to be imposed in this case should be sufficient to act as an effective incentive [to all broadcast licence holders] to continue to provide all elements of their respective licensed services throughout the licensed period, even if the licensee believes that there are commercial reasons for it to cease providing all or part of the licensed service during the licence period," the regulator added.
(2) An ITV spokesman said: "Fabia's performance was given careful consideration by ITV, the producers Talkback Thames and compliance licensee Channel Television .
(3) We will start with what is right for each of the pubs joining us and we will work together with licensees to ensure they have the right drinks on offer to suit the specific needs of each pub.” Heineken’s UK managing director has described the deal as a “huge vote of confidence in the ‘Great British pub’”.
(4) "Once we were informed of the leak, which was discovered by the licensee when washing down the sump to address a problem with the sump pump, we instructed the licensee not to use the pump again until the matter was investigated and resolved.
(5) Requiring, and ensuring, nationwide background checks on Washington state licensees is a no-brainer.” The FBI has run nationwide background checks since 2010 on applicants who sought to be involved in medical marijuana dispensaries in Colorado, Daria Serna, a spokeswoman for that state’s department of revenue, said in an email.
(6) For the 2014-2015 season, Nike will continue in its role of technical sponsor and trademark licensee.” As reported in the Guardian in January , the contract dwarfs the £30m a-year terms agreed by Arsenal with Puma in that month.
(7) As Askins’s view of their obligations suggests, guardian companies routinely operate as if the four-week notice rule doesn’t apply to them because guardians are not tenants but licensees.
(8) Licensing for further manufacturing permits two or more licensees to work together in the production of a product.
(9) STV, Scotland's ITV licensee, has guaranteed that it will make a new series of Taggart next year and has launched a £35m legal action against ITV plc that includes claims of abuses in TV ad sales and video-on-demand rights.
(10) However, if Sky was forced to go down the route of buying the rights on a pan-European basis and potentially sub-licensing some of them in certain territories – while also ensuring that none of those licensees could undercut it – it would make its business model significantly more complicated.
(11) He said the "failure" had exposed "weaknesses in Cuadrilla's performance as a licensee".
(12) The rationale for the filings--that patent protection may be necessary to ensure that private firms are willing to invest in developing related products--rests on two premises: first, that NIH may obtain patent rights that will offer effective product monopolies to licensee firms, and second, that unless NIH obtains these rights now, firms will be unable to obtain a comparable degree of exclusivity by other means, such as by obtaining patents on their own subsequent innovations.
(13) Selected licensees received TLDs for exposure under specified conditions.
(14) Since the Danish manufacturer of pentobarbital and its US licensee cut off supplies to American states that were using the drug for executions, authorities have been buying mixtures from secretive and makeshift compounding pharmacies that are not approved by federal regulators.
(15) The guardians are licensees rather than tenants and so have fewer rights, but what is the definition of a violation of the licence that can result in a speedy eviction in less than the 28 days’ notice required under eviction law?
(16) Which is a rough approximation of what TalkSport, owned by ITV Northern Ireland licensee UTV, has been trying to do to its licence fee-funded rival, BBC Radio 5 Live , over the past few years, launching a sustained critique of its output and the way it buys sports rights.
(17) Disney said: "We take these matters impacting our licensees and business partners very seriously and will continue to evaluate this situation based upon the information available to us."
(18) The government should also expand whistleblower protections and consider increasing penalties for financial services licensees that failed to lodge reports of significant breaches to Asic within the required time, the committee said.
(19) Bankruptcy can also mean losing your job and will certainly do so if you are an accountant, a member of the Law Society, an estate agent, an insolvency practitioner, a pub licensee, are in the police force or are part of the armed forces.
(20) London currently has about 118,000 private hire licensees.