Sentence examples for allowances to be from inspiring English sources

The world's major carbon market is not that created directly by the Kyoto protocol, but the European Union's emissions trading system (EUETS), which allows emissions "allowances" to be traded among the EU's carbon polluters.

A higher basic salary for MPs would have allowed most expenses and allowances to be abolished, they say.

To reduce the supply of permits and drive up the price, the environmental committee of the European Parliament voted to allow the European Commission to reduce the number of allowances to be auctioned over the next three years.

Educational maintenance allowances to be replaced with "more targeted support".

Developing countries want national emissions allowances to be allocated on the basis of equity of per capita emissions.

At first, the companies worked with the government to divvy up 30 years' worth of allowances, to be traded on spot and futures markets.

Yet many new ISAs – such as the AA's best-buy easy-access account – only allow the current year's allowance to be saved.

It's an allowance to be a full-bodied woman.

Bingo duty halved.* Personal tax allowance to be raised to £10,500 next year.

Although less productive so far in this tournament Robben probably has the biggest allowance to be selfish on the team.

* The working age disability living allowance to be replaced by a new personal independence payment which may be less generous.