What's the difference between disallow and reject?

Disallow


Definition:

  • (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.

Reject


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To cast from one; to throw away; to discard.
  • (v. t.) To refuse to receive or to acknowledge; to decline haughtily or harshly; to repudiate.
  • (v. t.) To refuse to grant; as, to reject a prayer or request.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Acceptance of less than ideal donors is ill-advised even though rejection of such donors conflicts with the current shortage of organs.
  • (2) Factors associated with higher incidence of rejection included loose sutures, traumatic wound dehiscence, and grafts larger than 8.5 mm.
  • (3) But the Franco-British spat sparked by Dave's rejection of Angela and Nicolas's cunning plan to save the euro has been given wings by news the US credit agencies may soon strip France of its triple-A rating and is coming along very nicely, thank you. "
  • (4) These results suggest that prevention of xenograft rejection using PAF-antagonist in association with other methods should be further investigated.
  • (5) Clinical diagnosis of rejection was made independently of immunological results.
  • (6) GlaxoSmithKline was unusually critical of the decision by Nice, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, and also the Scottish Medicines Consortium, to reject its drug belimumab (brand name Benlysta) in final draft guidance.
  • (7) Maintenance therapy was always steroid-free to start with (cyclosporin+azathioprine) but in almost one half of our oldest survivors, it failed to avoid rejection and we had to add low-dose oral steroids for at least several months.
  • (8) This alloimmune memory was shown to survive for up to 50 days after first-set rejection.
  • (9) The diagnosis of acute infectious enterocolitis was rejected.
  • (10) Thirteen of the dogs treated with various drug regimens lived for 90 days, after which time treatment was stopped; 10 of the dogs eventually rejected the grafts, but three had continued graft function for 6 months or longer and may be permanently tolerant.
  • (11) He campaigned for a no vote and won handsomely, backed by more than 61%, before performing a striking U-turn on Thursday night, re-tabling the same austerity terms he had campaigned to defeat and which the voters rejected.
  • (12) A study was conducted to assess the suppression of segmental pancreatic allograft rejection by cyclosporine (CSA) alone in baboons and dogs, and subtotal marrow irradiation (TL1) alone and TL 1 in combination with CSA in baboons.
  • (13) It is understood that Cooper rejected pressure from senior Labour figures last week for both her and Liz Kendall to drop out and leave the way clear for Burnham to contest Corbyn alone.
  • (14) The correlations between the objective risk estimates and the subjective risk estimates were low overall (r = 0.089, p = 0.08); for women rejecting (r = 0.024, p = 0.44) or accepting (r = 0.082, p = 0.12) amniocentesis.
  • (15) Britain First applied to use seven slogans in the elections and four were rejected, but the remaining three, including the slogan relating to Rigby, were approved by the watchdog.
  • (16) The value of D was found to correlate significantly with age, with the upper rejection limit (5% level) increasingly elevated from 4.8 mm at 20 years to 7.5 mm at 80 years.
  • (17) Ninety-two percent of the patients were not reactive to dinitrochlorobenzene after sensitization; skin allograft rejection occurred in an average of 17 days.
  • (18) Acquired renal cysts developed even in grafts undergoing chronic rejection, and increased numbers were found in native kidneys that were in uremic conditions for long periods, both before and after renal transplantation.
  • (19) In most cases, there were both quantitative and morphological differences between the infiltrates in acute rejection and in the remaining perivascular infiltrates after treatment.
  • (20) Additionally, it appears effective as a prophylactic treatment against acute renal and cardiac rejection in the immediate post-transplantation period.