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How to use the word Allowed in a Sentence?

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I dream one day that our world will turn out to be a world where people live together as one where no one is allowed to worry about prejudice or racism because everyone will be treated fairly and equally.

Werley Nortreus

added by Surin
3 months ago

I also made it quite clear that Socialism means equality of income or nothing, and that under socialism you would not be allowed to be poor. You would be forcibly fed, clothed, lodged, taught, and employed whether you like it or not. If it were discovered that you had not character enough to be worth all this trouble, you might possibly be executed in a kindly manner; but whilst you were permitted to live you would have to live well.

George Bernard Shaw

added by Normando
3 months ago

The type and formula of most schemes of philanthropy or humanitarianism is this: A and B put their heads together to decide what C shall be made to do for D. The radical vice of all these schemes, from a sociological point of view, is that C is not allowed a voice in the matter, and his position, character, and interests, as well as the ultimate effects on society through C's interests, are entirely overlooked. I call C the Forgotten Man.

William Graham Sumner

added by Normando
5 months ago

In my experience with it, Life has only allowed one real friend at a time. True friendship is injective and bilateral.

Link Starbureiy

added by anonymous
6 months ago

This latest rule on nitrogen oxide emissions takes direct aim at the sort of trucks and heavy equipment that literally drive our entire economy, the same bureaucrats who can’t control inflation or secure the border want to even more closely micromanage the heavy vehicles allowed on our roads.

Mitch McConnell

Found on CNN
1 year ago

(It was) a management decision. I wasn’t allowed to let anyone out alive, because my command was to kill anything in my way.

Azamat Uldarov

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I see parallels between ‘Yellowjackets’ and my perspective while songwriting: the sheer intensity, that going for the jugular with no fear around going for the profane, i’ve strived my entire career to support the empowerment of women and sensitives, and see the world through the female lens, and what’s so wonderful about this show is that each character is allowed to be dynamic and complex as opposed to oversimplified, reduced versions of women. I feel honoured to be a part of the legacy of ‘Yellowjackets.’.

Alanis Morissette

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There are going to be legitimate questions about how many keys did this individual have? How many rooms was he allowed to go into to take things out of as part of his job? And did he really need that as part of his job? i can tell you firsthand that there are young people in the military that do incredible work in the intelligence field around the world.

Josh Campbell

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The idea is, you give people the keys to the rooms in the house where they need to access that information, there are going to be legitimate questions about how many keys did this individual have? How many rooms was he allowed to go into to take things out of as part of his job? And did he really need that as part of his job?

David Priess

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Minneapolis had their third-snowiest winter on record, so a lot of it was sitting around waiting to melt, we didn’t really add a ton of heavy rain on top of the snowpack while that snow was melting, so that kind of allowed it to progress fairly orderly, but we’re going to have some minor flooding in a lot of rivers.

Eric Ahasic

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The lawyers are not allowed to speak to the media and strictly forbidden from sharing the court verdict – or they will have their practicing license revoked.

Luo Shengchun

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I never thought our house would ever get hit, our neighbors would ever get hit, but we have such wonderful neighbors. Everybody was checking on everybody, and I have a wonderful church group and when they’re allowed to come in, they’re gonna help clean up for me.

Kim Sear

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We measure snowpack wall-to-wall over mountains from aircraft using lasers and spectrometers, from that information, we can then know the full distribution of how much water there is in a mountain snowpack and also how fast it’s going to melt. That’s allowed us then to change forecast errors from being pretty large to very small and really dramatically changed water management in the west.

Tom Painter

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The very deep feeling that you are part of something bigger than yourself, that (you’re) allowed to sacrifice anything that is needed, whether it’s your career, health, seriously mental health, we all have a mission, you’re willing to do it at any cost. You’re very determined, you know that you are on the right side, you’re carrying the torch of light. That keeps us being highly motivated despite the fact that we’re not sleeping for days.

Yiftach Golov

Found on CNN
1 year ago

My parents weren’t even shown houses in this ward in 1962 – everything was over in the 5th Ward. That is what they were shown and allowed to buy, we’re looking to either build another house or add on to our garage.

Kimberly Holmes-Ross

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The text is very clear, we only allow cars on the market as long as there are zero emissions from driving them. E-fuels emit carbon dioxide from the tailpipe. They will not be allowed.

Jan Huitema

Found on CNN
1 year ago

A criminal trial is not a search for truth. It is much too circumscribed for that. Rather, a trial is a formalized contest for the hearts and minds of a panel of twelve. It is a quest for a verdict in which information is selected and screened (we can almost say “processed”) before it is allowed to reach jurors.

Phillip Finch

added by Normando
1 year ago

Fasting is not compulsory if you’re feeling not well. So in that regard — anything that can jeopardize the mission or maybe put the crew member at risk — we’re actually allowed to to eat sufficient food to prevent any escalation of lack of food or nutrition or hydration.

Sultan Alneyadi

Found on CNN
1 year ago

These companies are actually pretty savvy in that they come out West, purchase and pick up cheap rural agricultural land, they sit on it for a little while and then they’re trying to sell Colorado River water, i do n’t think that they should be allowed to profiteer off of Arizona’s finite resources … If they’re coming after a portion of our only water supply on the river for many of our communities, we have to fight it.

Supervisor Travis Lingenfelter

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Four of the five photographs relied upon by the Committee are photographs from the official No. 10 photographer. A suggestion that we would have held events which were ‘obviously’ contrary to the Rules and Guidance, and allowed those events to be immortalised by the official photographer is implausible.

Boris Johnson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The verdict is out on the controversy about whether some of these smaller banks were allowed to not partake in all of the … regulations, and maybe that left them more exposed.

Christine Romans

Found on CNN
1 year ago

People shouldn’t be allowed to lay in bed and eat Tostitos and do a mail-in ballot, i’m not stupid. We’re going to have to learn to do it.

Doug McLinko

Found on CNN
1 year ago

In Spain, this structure has been allowed to develop over the years and it hasn’t been challenged, you often have an individual judge, who is linked to a local authority or a regional authority, who then sits as a quasi-judicial figure instead of a disciplinary committee or regulatory commission, which is what happens in other countries. Vinicius Junior was racially by Barcelona fans during a match against Barcelona on October 24, 2021. David Ramos/Getty Images.

Piara Powar

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They allowed him to leave, to join the rest of our family and to receive the care that he needed for his life-threatening condition, i can only hope that they summon that same spirit of humanity to do what is needed on their part, so that the rest of us — Morad, Emad and I — can also be reunited with our families, and to start putting this dark past behind us.

Siamak Namazi

Found on CNN
1 year ago

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