(v. t.) To refuse to allow; to deny the force or validity of; to disown and reject; as, the judge disallowed the executor's charge.
Example Sentences:
(1) I can’t believe it was disallowed,” Bale admitted.
(2) The Liverpool manager was incensed by Lee Mason's performance at the Etihad Stadium on Boxing Day, when a 2-1 defeat cost his team the Premier League leadership and Raheem Sterling had a first half goal disallowed for an incorrect offside call.
(3) It left Monk rueing Shelvey’s disallowed strike, while also questioning why Oliver did not send off Koné, rather than book the forward, for an aerial challenge on Federico Fernández in the first half.
(4) The national football team were on the verge of a 1974 World Cup place and controversially finished second to Haiti, after losing 2-1 despite scoring five goals – four of which were disallowed – against the hosts in a qualifying tournament staged by the Haitians.
(5) It's a good job too, as it would have been a travesty if that goal had been disallowed.
(6) Labor and the Greens used their combined majority in the upper house to pass a disallowance motion against the government’s “cruel” TPV regulations.
(7) "As frustrating as these disallowed goals have been for a true US football fan, the call in the Slovenia game has been all the talk in the US, where it's well known the public couldn't care less about football," reports Chris Roberts.
(8) It is also hypothesized that heat treatment may produce alterations in Ia molecules which specifically disallow transduction of the proliferation signal to T cells.
(9) Two minutes later Duncan Watmore had a goal disallowed, even though Nathan Aké appeared to have played him onside, and two minutes after that N’Doye was denied a fine chance by Prödl’s last-ditch challenge.
(10) Or, indeed, the storm of locusts that would have been sent Howard Webb’s way bearing in mind the disallowed Hulk goal and his waving away of a first-half penalty.
(11) When Haghighi dropped one five minutes later he had been fouled by Obi Mikel and Ahmed Musa’s “goal” was disallowed.
(12) Prescribers disallowed generics on 32% of all eligible prescription orders in 1979 and on 42% in 1987.
(13) "Can you explain to the Whining Yanks that they didn't have a goal disallowed in the match against Slovenia, since the referee clearly blew for what he perceived to be a foul before the ball had reached Edu and ended up in the back of the net," lectures Matt.
(14) The clerk said the Senate had passed a motion in 1931 urging the governor general to refuse to approve regulations in the current session that were the same in substance as regulations already disallowed by the Senate, and a motion in 1914 asking the governor general to submit six constitution alteration proposals to the people even though they had not been passed by the House of Representatives.
(15) The Court upheld Pennsylvania's law defining medical emergency, as construed by the Court of Appeals; allowed a 24-hour waiting period for women who must 1st hear information about pregnancy and abortion to insure thoughtful informed consent; allowed a parental consent provision, with a judicial bypass; and allowed a recordkeeping and reporting requirement; but disallowed a spousal notification requirement, noting that "[a] State may not give to a man the kind of dominion over his wife that parents exercise over their children."
(16) The European side had two goals disallowed and wound up losing on penalties.
(17) In September, the high court disallowed the government’s attempt to force all asylum seekers on to temporary protection.
(18) "They can argue about the decision, but it was never a goal and therefore cannot have been disallowed."
(19) And after a quick chat, Webb disallows the goal and books Hulk for handball.
(20) Four factors influencing the scores are isolated: the position of the primary stress, the awareness of rhythmic patterns, a tendency to assign prominence to the initial syllable and a segmental factor which disallows prominence on syllables with schwa.
Prohibitive
Definition:
(a.) That prohibits; prohibitory; as, a tax whose effect is prohibitive.
Example Sentences:
(1) One hundred and twenty-seven states have said with common voice that their security is directly threatened by the 15,000 nuclear weapons that exist in the arsenals of nine countries, and they are demanding that these weapons be prohibited and abolished.
(2) This study sought to determine if and why barriers to the over-the-counter purchase of syringes in the St. Louis metropolitan area might exist, given that no ordinance prohibits such a sale there.
(3) The absence of uniform definitions prevents meaningful intersystem comparisons, prohibits explorations of hypotheses about effective interventions, and interferes with the efforts of quality assurance.
(4) "The Texas attorney general's office will continue to defend the Texas legislature's decision to prohibit abortion providers and their affiliates from receiving taxpayer dollars through the Women's Health Program."
(5) However, when public disquiet at the crime and social damage caused by alcohol prohibition led to its repeal, Anslinger saw his position as being in danger.
(6) In the Proposition 8 legal action, the supreme court could decide: • There is a constitutional right, under the equal protection clauses, for gay couples to wed, in which case the laws in 30 states prohibiting same-sex marriages are overturned.
(7) Cities and counties across the US have also passed laws that prohibit such performances from occurring within their boundaries.
(8) 'There is no reason why start-up costs should be prohibitive; you just need to work with what you have,' Hosking says.
(9) Rather, the regulatory signals conveyed by immobilized ECM molecules depend on the density at which they are presented and thus, on their ability to either prohibit or support cell spreading.
(10) A nearby sign warns that the lake and its environs are a protected natural area, where building is prohibited.
(11) After oral contraceptives containing high levels of estrogen were prohibited in Denmark, a telephone survey of 23 doctors was taken to determine the fluctuation in demand for medical information from patients, and the reason for the fluctuation.
(12) He pointed out that the eighth amendment of the US constitution “prohibits the unnecessary and wanton infliction of pain through torture, barbarous methods, or methods resulting in a lingering death”.
(13) The first state to outlaw alcohol entirely was, not surprisingly, a Protestant stronghold, the New England state of Maine, which introduced Prohibition in 1851.
(14) His stringent bail conditions prohibited him from visiting the family home, and even Saltdean itself.
(15) Tracing the historical forces which shaped the prohibition policies in both the countries and their apparent lack of success, the paper identifies some common elements.
(16) I think we can realistically put back what we had 25 or 30 years ago.” However, the engineering projects are prohibitively expensive.
(17) Results indicate that calculation times are probably prohibitive on current microcomputer platforms.
(18) The right has failed to show any critical thinking over private power and the way it prohibits democratic accountability.
(19) At present, the toxicity of most IL-2 regimens is severe and prohibitive for clinicians not intimately familiar with the myriad of side effects associated with its use.
(20) Those who were used to travelling abroad have already had to scale back as the rouble made the cost of visiting foreign cities prohibitive; and rising food prices have made it harder to balance the books for many families.