(n.) The act of allowing, granting, conceding, or admitting; authorization; permission; sanction; tolerance.
(n.) Acknowledgment.
(n.) License; indulgence.
(n.) That which is allowed; a share or portion allotted or granted; a sum granted as a reimbursement, a bounty, or as appropriate for any purpose; a stated quantity, as of food or drink; hence, a limited quantity of meat and drink, when provisions fall short.
(n.) Abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances; as, to make allowance for the inexperience of youth.
(n.) A customary deduction from the gross weight of goods, different in different countries, such as tare and tret.
(n.) To put upon a fixed allowance (esp. of provisions and drink); to supply in a fixed and limited quantity; as, the captain was obliged to allowance his crew; our provisions were allowanced.
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.
Stipend
Definition:
(n.) Settled pay or compensation for services, whether paid daily, monthly, or annually.
(v. t.) To pay by settled wages.
Example Sentences:
(1) Rule-abiding parents can get a monthly stipend, extra pension benefits when they are older, preferential hospital treatment, first choice for government jobs, extra land allowances and, in some case, free homes and a tonne of free water a month.
(2) For now, temporary carers receive rice, secondhand clothes for the children, toiletries and a small stipend, while regular financial help from the government and Unicef is being considered.
(3) Litvinenko also received a regular stipend from the oligarch Boris Berezovsky , his friend and patron, who had arranged his escape from Russia in October 2000.
(4) We know they’ve cut stipends to foreign fighters and many foreign fighters are in arrears on pay.” Hammond also delivered his strongest critique yet of Russia’s air campaign in Syria , accusing Moscow of deliberately carrying out strikes on schools and hospitals.
(5) The purpose of this study was to examine trends in providing specific benefits, namely, stipend, housing, meals, and uniform laundry, to students in full-time clinical education at the University of Michigan from 1967 to 1977.
(6) Ecomic pressures may force the physician on an Australian stipend to consider working outside his fellowhip or residency.
(7) At the time it pointed out that the archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, who has questioned Barclays executives appearing before the banking standards commission, receives only three-and-a-half times the average clergy stipend of £21,900.
(8) Some of these organizations provide a stipend for the relief worker.
(9) In addition, recognised refugees have only a matter of days to move out of reception centres once their applications are successful, at which time they stop receiving monthly stipends and risk becoming destitute.
(10) You might be able to share your access to an academic journal or pay a small stipend for someone’s internet hosting as a deposit for a future holiday.
(11) The material they publish was commissioned and funded not by them but by us, through government research grants and academic stipends.
(12) Fellowship stipend sources are much more diverse; federal training grants, professional fees, foundations, medical school funds, and research grants contribute significantly.
(13) While the Russian government has ordered deep cuts in its space and hi-tech programmes , Zimin’s Dynasty Foundation had just raised its annual budget to $8.6m to be allocated to research stipends, publishing, and outreach.
(14) Charlotte, standing calm and still in the middle of all the flap and pother – the Bennets should award her a special stipend just for advising Elizabeth not to be so bloody rude to Darcy every time she speaks to him (I paraphrase) – and gazing with a cool, appraising eye on her own and everyone else's best chance of the greatest happiness while everyone else's vision is either blinkered with pride, blurred by prejudice or occluded by simple stupidity (Lydia!
(15) This study demonstrates the significant benefits to both foster parents and the children in their care of providing enhanced services and stipends to foster parents.
(16) The judges said it was not merely an anomaly that Berlusconi was paying monthly stipends to witnesses testifying in a trial in which he was indirectly implicated.
(17) They have developed working business arrangements – the pirates pay a stipend to be left in peace.
(18) Coates joins 23 other MacArthur fellows who will receive a no-strings-attached stipend of $625,000, paid out over five years in quarterly installments.
(19) The original purpose of this survey was to obtain sufficient salary information on residency programs to assist us in evaluating our residents' annual stipend.
(20) Expect wheelchairs in Downing Street as the coalition does away with the long-established principle that people who have contributed their own national insurance in the past, and then become sick and disabled, should expect a modest stipend from the state in recognition of this.