(v. t.) To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction.
(v. t.) To like; to be suited or pleased with.
(v. t.) To sanction; to invest; to intrust.
(v. t.) To grant, give, admit, accord, afford, or yield; to let one have; as, to allow a servant his liberty; to allow a free passage; to allow one day for rest.
(v. t.) To own or acknowledge; to accept as true; to concede; to accede to an opinion; as, to allow a right; to allow a claim; to allow the truth of a proposition.
(v. t.) To grant (something) as a deduction or an addition; esp. to abate or deduct; as, to allow a sum for leakage.
(v. t.) To grant license to; to permit; to consent to; as, to allow a son to be absent.
(v. i.) To admit; to concede; to make allowance or abatement.
Example Sentences:
(1) To examine the central nervous system regulation of duodenal bicarbonate secretion, an animal model was developed that allowed cerebroventricular and intravenous injections as well as collection of duodenal perfusates in awake, freely moving rats.
(2) Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who is also seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, recently proposed a bill that would ease the financial burden of prescription drugs on elderly Americans by allowing Medicare, the national social health insurance program, to negotiate with the pharmaceutical companies to keep prices down.
(3) Finally the advanced automation of the equipment allowed weekly the evaluation of catecholamines and the whole range of their known metabolites in 36 urine samples.
(4) At the heart of the payday loan profit bonanza is the "continuous payment authority" (CPA) agreement, which allows lenders to access customer bank accounts to retrieve funds.
(5) A chronic cannulation procedure is described which allows for sampling vomeronasal organ (VNO) contents repeatedly in freely moving conscious subjects.
(6) In the measurement, enzyme-labeled and unlabeled antigens (Ag* and Ag) were allowed to compete in binding to the antibody (Ab) under conditions where Ag* much less than Ab much less than Ag.
(7) "At the same time, however, we cannot allow one man's untrue version of what happened to stand unchallenged," he said.
(8) The hprt T-cell cloning assay allows the detection of mutations occurring in vivo in the hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase (hprt) gene of T-lymphocytes.
(9) The presently available data allow us to draw the following conclusions: 1) G proteins play a mediatory role in the transmission of the signal(s) generated upon receptor occupancy that leads to the observed cytoskeletal changes.
(10) Meanwhile, reductions in tax allowances on dividends for company shareholders from £5,000 down to £2,000 represent another dent to the incomes of many business owners.
(11) Sewel is also recorded complaining about the level of appearance allowances at the House of Lords .
(12) Human gingival fibroblasts were allowed to attach and spread on bio-glasses for 1-72 h. Unreactive silica glass and cell culture polystyrene served as controls.
(13) Writing in the Observer , Schmidt said his company's accounts were complicated but complied with international taxation treaties that allowed it to pay most of its tax in the United States.
(14) Madrid now hopes that a growing clamour for future rescues of Europe's banks to be done directly, without money going via governments, may still allow it to avoid accepting loans that would add to an already fast-growing national debt.
(15) This mobilization procedure allowed transfer and expression of pJT1 Ag+ resistance in E. coli C600.
(16) As increases to the Isa allowance are based on the CPI inflation figure for the year to the previous September, the new data suggests the current Isa limit of £15,240 will remain unchanged next year.
(17) This experimental system allows separation of three B lymphocyte developmental stages: early differentiation in vitro, progression to IgM secretion in vivo, and late differentiation dependent upon mature T lymphocytes in vivo.
(18) There is precedent in Islamic law for saving the life of the mother where there is a clear choice of allowing either the fetus or the mother to survive.
(19) Subthreshold concentrations of the drug to induce complete blockade (5 x 10(-8)M) allowed to observe a greater depression of bioelectric cell characteristics in primary than in transitional fibres.
(20) One hundred and ninety-nine children aged 7-14 and 177 adolescents in remission and minimal manifestations of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) were examined before and after fangotherapy with allowance for activity of the process, age-related reactivity.
Greenlight
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Lewis said Hunt had given the pro-Tory News Corp the greenlight in the same week that he had named Lord Patten, a former chairman of the Conservative party, as the next chairman of the BBC Trust.
(2) And boy are they hammering home the fact that this is the last time we will ever get to see the Kiwi film-maker's take on Middle Earth (until Warner Bros decides to greenlight a 12-part movie marathon based on Farmer Giles of Ham ).
(3) When it comes to greenlighting a film, the ‘comp’ is king – that is, the comparison to other, similar films, which studios use for box office projections and determining a budget,” says Kyle Buchanan, senior editor at Vulture.
(4) Einhorn said Mircosoft – in which his Greenlight Capital is a major investor – had missed a string of opportunities under Ballmer's "Charlie Brown management", referring to the hapless star of the Peanuts cartoon strip.
(5) She added that at the time of the deal there was a "credible rationale" for allowing the acquisition, but reiterated that such a purchase would not be given the greenlight again.
(6) So.” DeGeneres, who is openly gay, told him: “I know you and I know you’re not that guy.” Two weeks ago Damon, who is currently promoting the critically acclaimed Ridley Scott space thriller The Martian , ran into criticism after he appeared to suggest Project Greenlight judges should not take diversity into consideration while carrying out their professional duties.
(7) Einhorn's breathtaking public attack comes shortly after his Greenlight Capital fund raised its stake in Microsoft to 9m shares, or about 0.11%.
(8) It’s what I have chosen to do with my life and I want every young person watching Project Greenlight to believe that film-making is a viable form of creative expression for them too.
(9) •For a weekly email update from the Guardian and Observer's environment team sign up for our Greenlight newsletter .
(10) But grassroots activists in West Virginia accuse the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of continuing to greenlight new projects – albeit with some additional restrictions on the mining companies.
(11) The Planning Decisions Unit of the Greater London Authority, the body responsible for greenlighting these schemes, begs to differ.
(12) However, ITV will not give the greenlight to ITV1 +1 until after the results of the Competition Commission's review of the contract rights renewal (CRR) system, due later this month.
(13) But the attacks had begun even earlier, starting in earnest in 2011 when the influential investor David Einhorn, of the Greenlight Capital hedge fund, called for him to step down, saying he should "give someone else a chance" and that "his continued presence is the biggest overhang on Microsoft's stock".
(14) Not an accolade you’d hand to whoever greenlighted Minions , the inevitable spin-off of Universal’s Despicable Me series, the second of which got within grasping distance of $1bn worldwide in 2013.
(15) During his six-year tenure he attempted to drag the company into the digital era, scaling back on packaged goods and spending hundreds of millions on funky companies such as Playfish and Popcap, not to mention greenlighting Origin, EA's rival to the mighty digital distribution channel, Steam.
(16) Matt Damon has backed himself into a corner with hypocritical gay comments Read more The Bourne Ultimatum star was thrown into his second major controversy in a matter of weeks – he was recently forced to apologise for appearing to downplay the importance of diversity in film while judging the HBO reality show Project Greenlight – after telling journalist Elizabeth Day: “I think you’re a better actor the less people know about you period.
(17) So what we really need is people in positions to greenlight those stories, not a hunk of metal.” Also speaking at Sundance, Oscar-nominated producer and actor Danny DeVito said the current row was a result of America’s basic inherent prejudice.
(18) However, investors will be closely scrutinizing Shell’s disclosures, particularly in light of its decision today to greenlight drilling in the Alaskan Arctic, one of the highest cost and highest risk projects in its entire portfolio.” Major funds around the world are becoming increasingly concerned that limits on carbon emissions will harm the finances of fossil fuel companies and lead to investors losing money.
(19) Last week Einhorn repeated his view in a letter to Greenlight investors in which he claimed "a decade of mismanagement has put Microsoft at risk of becoming a shrinking company".
(20) They allegedly show that Mr Coulson had authorised payments to police officers Guardian report 22 Jun 2011 Ofcom and OFT submit final revised detailed agreements to Hunt The Guardian: News Corp's BSkyB bid: Jeremy Hunt expected to give green light next week 27 Jun 2011 Michel to Adam Smith: Let me know if you have a more detailed idea of the timetable for the next few days reply No more details on timings just yet See the email 30 Jun 2011 Hunt finally greenlights the bid, subject to one final consultation.