Sentence examples for allowances may be from inspiring English sources

In Denmark, disability pensions are means-tested, and housing allowances may be added to pensions.

Around 50m allowances may be put into an innovation fund to help industry.

The allowances may be traded in a secondary market, which effectively sets a price for carbon-dioxide emissions.

Student Finance's 22-page guide doesn't make it clear that finalists' living allowances may be cut by almost a quarter.

Entitlement to family allowances ceases when a child reaches a particular age in most cases the age when compulsory education ceases, though allowances may be continued when a child continues in full-time education or is disabled.

But without government regulations enforcing the caps, there is much less pressure on heavy emitters to participate, and the prices they are willing to pay for allowances may be so low that there is little financial inducement for potential sellers to invest in cutting emissions.

For example the tax-free income-tax allowance may be pushed up yet again from the £10,600 already announced for 2015/16 - since this a policy that Lib Dems say they invented, and the Tories think voters associate with them.

The white purses used for the clothing allowance may be distinguished from the white purses which contained Maundy money, as the former was tied with a short green string; the latter bears a long red string.

Baggage allowance may be confined to one piece of hand luggage, meals might not be included, in-flight entertainment might not be available, you may be asked to print your ticket before arrival at the airport, and these carriers could be more susceptible to late arrivals and cancellations.

… life glides away, and the spirits with it; 'and when youth and genial years are flown,' they have nothing to subsist on; or, perhaps, on some extraordinary occasion, some small allowance may be made for them, which is thought a great charity.

Accelerated depreciation may take the form of an additional deduction in the first year an "initial allowance"—or may be spread over several years.