Allowance
in sentence
98 examples of Allowance in a sentence
I'm here to give you your recommended dietary
allowance
of poetry.
I sold that pork to my school friends' parents, and I made a good pocket money addition to my teenage
allowance.
That black line in the middle of that table is the likely level of consumption with an
allowance
for certain levels of inevitable waste.
Having put the product into practice, we are actually now on the verge of selling the product onto a multinational to take it to the retail market, and one question I have for the audience today is, on the gravel roads of Limpopo, with an
allowance
of 50 rand a week, I came up with a way for the world not to bathe.
I was talking to Warren Buffett's banker, and he was chiding me for not letting my children make mistakes with their
allowance.
He said, "It's much better to drive into a ditch with a $6
allowance
than a $60,000-a-year salary or a $6 million inheritance."
And here's the key; they get to spend it with your subtle guidance, your subtle mentorship, your subtle supervision, and whether you call it an allowance, you call it commission for chores or you call it a weekly stipend, every single child, from the age of five on up, needs to be given some tangible amount of money on a weekly basis so that they understand how to function in a cashless society someday.
I used to spend all of my
allowance
money on the ice cream truck and stuff, and she would take her money and give it to me at school and make sure I had something to eat and she would go without, and that's the kind of person she actually is since I've always known her.
And, of course, in the modern world, with the environmental movement, we're becoming even more aware of the connectivity of things, that something I do here actually does matter in Africa, that if I use too much of my carbon allowance, it seems to be that we are causing a great lack of rain in central and eastern Africa.
Allowance
is breeding kids at a young age to expect a regular paycheck.
For instance, many parents would pay their children an
allowance
or pocket money for doing chores in the house.
Finally, the school itself adds the frosting to the unreal cake by providing the students with 5-star amenities such as a scenic location, sushi bar, hot lounge equipped with free soda machines, pool&jacuzzi, movie theater, and the
allowance
for boys and girls to freely go into the other sex's dorm rooms.
Kids, if I'm ever turned invisible, I'll advance your allowance, ok?
Contemporary viewers who can make a mental
allowance
for the lower production values can find this version well worth their time.
For what it's worth, though, the discussion that followed the showing, under the auspices of the Key Sunday Cinema series, did make
allowance
that possibly the three women did show some redeeming characteristics.
The sexploitation movie era of the late sixties and early seventies began with the
allowance
of gratuitous nudity in mainstream films and ended with the legalization of hardcore porn.
Having an
allowance
of only £156 per year and no interest in work, she moves in with poor, depressed relatives.
I can only imagine the budget for this film being in the realm of some kid's
allowance.
The children are unruly and their father has his own stresses of desperately searching for a wife before his mean-spirited great aunt cuts off his
allowance
and everything is falling apart at the seams...until Nanny McPhee enters the house to sort things out.
Apparently filmed with a budget comparable to a fifth-grader's allowance, this baby pulls out all the stops.
Beyond the political talking points (which are engaging and amusing in and of themselves), the film points to what it means to have the
allowance
of marriage as a "goal" or "purpose" in a relationship at all ... and how that resonates in a person's life.
I was just a young pup with barely enough
allowance
to cover a movie.
Moreover, there is no
allowance
for maintaining national statistical offices, training and retaining personnel, or analyzing and disseminating the data.
The Russian mathematician Vladimir Masch has produced an ingenious scheme of “Risk-Constrained Optimization,” which makes explicit
allowance
for the existence of a “zone of uncertainty.”
They have been stripped of their lump-sum
allowance
for professional fees.
Reform along these lines could also have been combined with some cuts in spending, say, trimming the maternity grant or child care allowance, or imposing reasonable fees on those able to pay for them.
Poor people have had their incomes complemented with a monthly
allowance
under a conditional cash-transfer program called “Bolsa Familia,” which now reaches more than 12 million households.
Previous talks have included an
allowance
for land exchanges, which would permit Israel to keep many large settlement blocks by giving land inside Israel to the Palestinians.
Despite efforts to promote fiscal-policy coordination, eurozone members’ budgets still fall under the purview of separate national authorities, and northern Europeans continue to oppose transfers from more to less prosperous countries beyond the very limited
allowance
of the European Union’s regional funds.
Bush makes no
allowance
for the possibility that he may be wrong, and he tolerates no dissent.
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