It is standard procedure in China for camera crews to ask for permission to film.
"It was, and still is, better sometimes to ask for forgiveness than ask for permission, " he said.
Homeowners in Cornwall could be forced to ask for permission to use their property as a second house or holiday let.
Apparently the SEALs did not ask for permission to consult on the video game, and showed designers their specially designed equipment.
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But the White House has already made it clear that in the Iraq agreement, it won't go to Congress to ask for permission.
"ADs would always call and ask for permission to interview my assistants, and I'd say that if you interview him, you'll hire him, " Fry said.
Looking back, it was critical to have had mutual agreement beforehand, since it was far easier to ask for permission than to continually ask for forgiveness.
When I suggest to Mr. Kalanick that Uber, in the fine startup tradition, was using the "don't ask for permission, beg for forgiveness" approach, he interrupts the question halfway through.
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Meanwhile Manila said that Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario would also ask for permission for a Philippines ship carrying aid and consular help to be allowed to reach the intruders and evacuate the wounded.
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To me, empowerment is about giving employees the permission to give customers priority and to use their creative talents to find solutions when issues arise, without having to run to management and ask for permission to do something.
But other Democrats, including Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Joe Biden, D-Delaware, said it was premature for the president to ask Congress for permission to use military action.
The Treasury Department said it would ask Congress for permission to buy shares of the companies' stock.
Meanwhile, the U.S. Postal Service is set to ask Congress for permission to end the delivery of letters on Saturdays.
To protect against this, they say, we need a system where physicians have to ask patients for permission to access their information.
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Tombstone now asserts that it owns 25 springs in the Huachuca Mountains and shouldn't have to ask anyone for permission to maintain its own water line.
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We should recall that it was a near-run thing when George Bush senior decided to ask Congress for permission to repel Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait.
Mr. Newman says he didn't have to ask Apple for permission to use the lowercase i and had no trouble getting iHospital registered as a trademark in the U.S. and Europe.
He believes that what is more likely to happen in reality is for the device to calculate the measurements and then ask a nurse for permission for it to administer them.
Ironically, many times just doing what you think is right and asking for forgiveness later (ask for forgiveness, not for permission) tends to work.
The City of London must then decide whether to ask the government for permission to do so.
The idea that they were somehow hoping that by distributing this software, piracy would get to the point where they had to ask the government for permission to control the internet seems like a bit of reach.
In December, Jordan said, he met with Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf to ask permission for CNN to send journalists into areas of northern Iraq that had been under Kurdish control since the end of the Persian Gulf War in 1991.
The New York-based company also disclosed that Elliott Associates LP and one of its affiliates plan to ask federal regulators for permission to buy a major stake in the company and may seek board seats at the annual meeting in May.
He purchased it without telling her, choosing to ask for forgiveness rather than permission.
Early-stage companies have a second advantage over more established ones: they can ask for forgiveness instead of permission.
He said under its contract it had to ask the county council for permission to give interviews and that on many previous occasions that had been refused.
In the 35-page complaint, the residents and parks groups argue that the city is required to ask the state Legislature for permission to lease Damrosch Park under a statute known as the public trust doctrine, which provides that public spaces should be used for public purposes.
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If the Brussels negotiators have to ask advance permission from member states for every compromise, it is hard to see how they can hope to make substantial progress before the December deadline.
The regional governor of Tula, for instance, told a Seventh Day Adventist pastor that if he wanted to rent a lecture-theatre for worship he should ask permission of the local Orthodox priest.
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