Sentence examples for allowances if from inspiring English sources

Executives at multiple suppliers, in interviews, said that Hewlett-Packard and others allowed them slightly more profits and other allowances if they were used to improve worker conditions.

Shadow chancellor George Osborne will unveil proposals for a "green Isa" today, which will allow investors to benefit from generous tax-free savings allowances if they put their money with environmentally responsible firms.

This "cap and trade" system would allow them to emit greenhouse gases up to that level or trade the allowances if they could otherwise reduce pollution from operations with clean-energy technology.

The companies will also get tax relief and unemployment allowances if any of their South Korean workers are laid off because of the trouble in Kaesong.

Meanwhile, Mr Osborne has abandoned a legal challenge to the bonus cap after a preliminary ruling cast doubt on its chances of success.Nobody is quite sure what will replace the allowances, if anything.

He said that Qantas, the Australian airline, is going along with the European scheme, under which airlines must buy so-called carbon allowances if they exceed assigned annual emissions targets, which decrease year by year.

The program would allow trading in "carbon allowances" (permitting companies to emit greenhouse gases) and in "carbon offsets" (allowing companies to emit beyond their allowance if they invest in emission-reducing projects elsewhere).

Finally Bosie's mother threatened to cut off his allowance if he didn't leave Wilde.

But R. found herself wondering something else, and although my children are younger, I've wondered the same: What's an allowance (if given) for?

For example, the student should keep receipts from the purchase of textbooks and appeal for an increase in the textbook allowance if actual costs are higher.

Points are added to your basic state allowance if you have children, have served in the army, or if you are a new Jewish migrant.