Sentence examples for a special allowance from inspiring English sources

For a new property in Almon, I'd get almost £11,600 as a special allowance.

We don't receive a "special allowance" to feed our dogs (which, according to some, explains why blackfellas have so many).

Then she approached the International Tennis Federation twice, asking the sport's international governing body to make a special allowance.

When a North Korean dies, the state provides relatives with a special allowance of rice and some alcohol, as well as a small sum of money.

Yet he is accused of forgery and of having embezzled more than 11m Taiwanese dollars ($333,000) from a special allowance for public relations during his stint as Taipei's mayor from 1998 to 2006.According to the indictment, Mr Ma paid the allowance into his own bank account and declared it as his personal property.

I was very struck when François Hollande was grappling with modest French pension reform in 2013 – unlike some leaders, Hollande does have a reverse gear – that a special allowance was envisaged for manual workers who could no longer do at 60+ what they had done at 25. Unlike many of those who sit at a desk, including me.

I wasn't granted any special allowance, perhaps because my illness is invisible.

They also alleged that the military top brass had failed to give them a promised special allowance for fighting on the front line, they told the BBC Hausa service.

Bonus depreciation: Since 2008, companies have been able to take advantage of a special depreciation allowance that allows them to write off 50 percent (and sometimes more) of certain kinds of investment in the first year.

"We do this without fear or favour and would not make special allowance for a governor or for anybody else".

"The only reason Labour have a higher attendance is that 31 out of 35 of them get a special responsibility allowance," he argues.