Normal hockey skates are technically allowed as they provide propulsion and adequate protection, but are virtually never seen.

While never granted refugee status they were technically allowed to settle in the bantustans or black homelands created by the apartheid government.

I was technically allowed to enjoy a savory duck dish, but I'm a vegetarian so that was out.

Grade 11s and 12s wearing khakis and a white shirt are technically not allowed to remove their tie.

While newly purchased shares can be given as gifts, once ownership is established, transfers are technically allowed only between immediate family members.

Representatives of the country's tiny dissident groups, while technically allowed to take part, declined to run in any of the races today.

However, sea sponges are technically no longer allowed to be sold as menstrual aids.

While alcohol wasn't technically allowed on many college campuses and in fraternities until the mid-60's, fraternity members were known for ignoring the rule.

Bicameral regional legislatures are still technically allowed by federal law but this clause is dormant now.

Actors aren't technically allowed to smoke onstage under the ban in Chicago, but when they do, the law is simply not enforced.