The phrase "allow a power" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where permission or authorization is granted to exercise a certain power or authority.
Example: "The committee decided to allow a power to the new chairperson to make decisions on behalf of the group."
Alternatives: "grant authority" or "permit a power".
We cannot allow a power like this to operate, unchecked and unobserved, even if it is currently used benignly.
He's a Muslim, but not officially the president yet because the current Christian president, who has his own share of issues, is refusing to allow a power change".
This pump is used in a system layout architecture that includes built-in valves to allow a power on demand strategy control of a differential linear actuator.
Thus, considering a difference of 5% dilation of the brachial artery between the group with SMI and CAD and the 2 others and a standard deviation (SD) equal to 5%; a cohort of 120 diabetic patients will allow a power higher than 90% to detect a difference between the 3 groups using a two-sided 5% significance ANOVA level.
Tampa Bay, the only team not to allow a power-play goal (26 chances) this season, converted 4 of 12 man-advantage opportunities.
What is at stake is the fragile coalition based at Stormont, which was already unstable due to Sinn Féin's refusal to allow a power-sharing executive meeting to sit since June.
The penalty killers did allow a power-play goal, to Theo Fleury, but it was their only blemish in seven manpower advantages for the Rangers, who blamed their power-play deficiency for failing to win.
The Capitals didn't allow a power-play goal, but the damage was done in other ways, disrupting their flow early in a game in which they never established one.
In Calgary they didn't allow a power-play score for the third time in 13 contests.
The March coup created a vacuum in the country that allowed a power grab in the north by separatist Tuareg tribesmen.
Mr. Bush is being forced to consider a bigger American role, lest he repeat one of his father's mistakes: allowing a power vacuum in a lawless Afghanistan, which eventually made it ripe for terrorists.
