How to use "permit" in a sentence

Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage - and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today at home and around the world.

But at the door he half-turned and said, 'Monsieur, if you will permit me, I would like to come and see her

Of course, they would have seen that Cham had changed! And they'd permit him to leave the pod at once if they thought it was damaging him.