Example Sentences

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This is a function of the nature of words to be true or false, allowable or unallowable.

From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022

The department doesn't have authority to reject a district's spending, she said, unless it's "definitely unallowable."

From Fox News • Oct. 6, 2021

While Living Well Kent was “extremely responsive to community needs,” the county found, “vital information was missing from the client records sampled” and it had “billed for unallowable expenses.”

From Seattle Times • Jul. 15, 2021

Why is Hansen’s claim that, for the health of the planet, we reduce our greenhouse gas emissions an unallowable example of advocacy when we trust a doctor’s recommendation that we stop smoking cigarettes?

From Slate • Apr. 13, 2016

The first of these alleged limitations may be dismissed as resting on the unallowable idea that the United States is not as to its powers a territorial government, but only the agent of the States.

From The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States to June 30, 1952 by Corwin, Edward Samuel