A Wall Street person should not be allowed to help oversee the Dodd-Frank reforms.
During an emergency that ratio could be allowed to drop to 8.5 people per orbit.
States were encouraged and allowed to lower standards to make it appear they were improving.
Users “should be allowed to use these devices and services the way they were intended,” Brookman says.
His accuser was smeared and demeaned, and a star football player was allowed to keep on playing.
Her house is the only one in all Greece where women are allowed to be present at entertainments.
There was a long, airy gallery, in which he was allowed to take exercise any hour of the day.
None but Greeks were allowed to enter the temples of this goddess.
No woman was allowed to enter Olympia, during the celebration of the games.
We will be upon no conditions with him, nor will you be allowed to be upon any.
late 14c., "praised;" mid-15c., "assigned as a due share;" late 15c., "permitted," past participle adjective from allow.
early 14c., allouen, "to commend, praise; approve of, be pleased with; appreciate the value of;" also, "take into account or give credit for," also, in law and philosophy, "recognize, admit as valid" (a privilege, an excuse, a statement, etc.). From late 14c. as "sanction or permit; condone;" in business use from early 15c.
The Middle English word is from Anglo-French alouer, Old French aloer, alloiier (13c.) "allot, apportion, bestow, assign," from Latin allocare (see allocate). This word in Old French was confused and ultimately merged with aloer; alloer "to praise, commend," from Latin allaudare, adlaudare, compound of ad- "to" (see ad-) + laudare "to praise" (see laud). From the first word came the sense preserved in allowance as "money granted;" from the second came its meaning "permission based on approval."
Between the two primary significations there naturally arose a variety of uses blending them in the general idea of assign with approval, grant, concede a thing claimed or urged, admit a thing offered, permit, etc., etc. [OED].Related: Allowed; allowing.
