Word Finder - allowing

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To grant, give, admit, accord, afford, or yield; to let one have.

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to allow a servant his liberty;  to allow a free passage;  to allow one day for rest

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To acknowledge; to accept as true; to concede; to accede to an opinion.

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to allow a right;  to allow a claim;  to allow the truth of a proposition

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To grant (something) as a deduction or an addition; especially to abate or deduct.

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To allow a sum for leakage.

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To grant license to; to permit; to consent to.

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Smoking allowed only in designated areas.

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To not bar or obstruct.

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Although I don't consent to their holding such meetings, I will allow them for the time being.

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To acknowledge or concede.

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To take into account by making an allowance.

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When calculating a budget for a construction project, always allow for contingencies.

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To render physically possible.

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To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction.

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To sanction; to invest; to entrust.

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To like; to be suited or pleased with.

That's not even allowing time to park.

Jenn closed her eyes, reveling in her freed senses and allowing her instincts to guide her.

The stored tears continued to flow and the sobs wracked her body, robbing it of the ability to speak – barely allowing a breath to be drawn.

Allowing a smile to escape, Yully pulled the necklace free.

In the privacy of their bedroom, she sat on the bed, allowing the tears to flow.

In allowing the air to expand from a pressure of 21 atmospheres to that of i atmosphere the value of the mechanical equivalent of heat obtained was 821.89 foot-pounds.

He took her hand in his and leaned forward, allowing his forehead to rest against hers.

The top was still off, allowing additional room, but he still felt three or four trips lay ahead.

She was shocked and disturbed by his announcement but said little, allowing him to describe the happenings without interruption.

Allowing for this interval of military service, he applied himself exclusively for twenty-four years to his legal work.

Instead of allowing the income tax to expire, he induced parliament to continue it for a further period, and with the resources which were thus placed at his disposal he purged the tariff of various small duties which produced little revenue, and had been imposed for purposes of protection.

The window to a balcony was open, allowing in a cool night breeze that made the fire in the hearth dance.

Katie accused her of allowing Alex to make decisions because she had no confidence in herself – and that Alex was taking advantage of her because he had a controlling personality.

The time thus spent seems to have been on the whole happy, even allowing for warm discussions with the mathematicians and metaphysicians of France, and for harassing controversies in the Netherlands.

In the diaphragm valve a thin piece of metal is fixed to an outlet from the boiler, and when a moderate pressure is exceeded this gives way, allowing the water and steam to escape.

He held out his hand, and Dusty clasped his wrist, allowing Damian to Travel them both to Tucson Sector HQ.

C.mon, Toby, Katie said and turned away, allowing Toby to pull her down the hall to the dining chamber, which had yet to fill up.

Her movement upset his balance again, and he shifted twice before finally allowing his knees to drop beside hers.

He cringed as Cynthia described her giving two different names, allowing Fred yet another shot at constructing a mystery.

Three or four miles from town, the roadway opened and he slowed, allowing the warmth of the day to soak into his stiff body.

He sat up in bed admiring them, allowing all the emotion he originally felt to wash over him.

Elisabeth licked it, then stood, allowing him to pet the side of her head and ear.

Connor obeyed, and as Victor made a move toward him, Jackson blocked him, allowing him to scurry to safety.

She fell to the floor and Alex glanced at her, allowing his attention to stray from Josh for a second.

The old man opened the door with a barrage of questions, allowing Dean no chance to escape the interrogation.

Rita would convey the message to Jonathan Winston as well allowing Dean to temporarily duck having to explain to the FBI why he played cowboy and lost the tail instead of getting the plate number.

She then turned to her son as if to apologize for allowing this relative stranger to kiss her.

It seemed to Dean it was the young man's way of telling his mother that he was comfortable with her allowing Dean to peek into the corners of their life.

The conversations were brief and the trip apparently uneventful, how­ever Dean continued to have second thoughts about allowing Fred to dig into the matter on his own.

If exhaustion truly was mental as much as physical, he'd conquered its demon as he edged to the side of the road without slowing his pace, allowing an infre­quent car to pass.

Carmen followed him out to the truck, eagerly allowing him to draw her into an embrace.

Then the muscles in his leg tightened and she stepped back, allowing him to dismount.

Taran breathed deeply, allowing his senses to fill with the woman gazing up at him.

She straightened, allowing Alex to pull her back against his warm muscular body.

Why was she allowing Katie to influence her thoughts and actions?

With a sickening sound, the bush ripped from the ground, allowing her to slide again.

She had fallen into the pattern of allowing someone else to plan her time again.

At the path entrance, she tied one end of the twine around a tree and started down the trail, allowing the twine to unwind from the handle as she did so.

Whether or not she knew it, she was his, the second woman in his life he was allowing into his world.

Leo vacillated between the powerful candidates for the succession, allowing it to appear at first that he favoured Francis I.

Major Warburton had virtually raced across from the Macdonnell range in South Australia to the headwaters of the Oakover river on the northwest coast, without allowing himself sufficient time to note the characteristics of the country.

He appointed visitors for the universities and great public schools, and defended the universities from the attacks of the extreme sectaries who clamoured for their abolition, even Clarendon allowing that Oxford "yielded a harvest of extraordinary good and sound knowledge in all parts of learning."

Various devices have been suggested for extinguishing the arc and yet allowing the condenser oscillatory discharge to take place.

The state (law of the 15th of April 1896) imposed this condition in order to determine exactly the aims of the societies, and, while allowing them to give help to their sick, old or feeble members, or aid the families of deceased members, to forbid them to pay old-age pensions, lest they assumed burdens beyond their financial strength.

The price of Italian consolidated 5% (gross, 4% net, allowing for the 20% income tax) stock, which is the security most largely negotiated abroad, and used in settling differences between large financial institutions, has steadily risen during recent years.

Politically, its outcome was to prove the impossibility of allowing the continu1 of an independent Roman state in the heart of Italy.

Marching rapidly, however, Albertone outdistanced the other columns, but, in consequence of allowing his men an hours rest, arrived upon the scene of action when the Abyssinians, whom it had been hoped to surprise at dawn, were ready to receive the attack.

The spiritual courts in the East have permanently acquired jurisdiction in the matrimonial causes of baptized persons; the Mahommedan governments allowing to Christians a personal law of their own.

In these African campaigns Sulla showed that he knew how to win the confidence of his soldiers, and throughout his career the secret of his success seems to have been the enthusiastic devotion of his troops, whom he continued to hold well in hand, while allowing them to indulge in plundering and all kinds of excess.

The president of the senate, Juan Cuestas, in accordance with the constitution, assumed the duties of president of the republic. He arranged that hostilities should cease on the conditions that representation of the Blancos was allowed in Congress for certain districts where their votes were known to predominate; that a certain number of the jefes politicos should be nominated from the Blancos; that free pardon be extended to all who had taken part in the revolt; that a sufficient sum in money be advanced to allow the settlement of the expenses contracted by the insurgents; and that the electoral law be reformed on a basis allowing the people to take part freely in e1ctions.