The phrase "allowances up for" is not standard in written English and may cause confusion.
It could be used in a context discussing the availability or consideration of allowances, but it is not commonly recognized.
Example: "The committee is reviewing the budget, and allowances up for discussion include travel expenses."
Alternatives: "allowances available for" or "allowances considered for".
Thursday's auction sold more than 12,500,000 allowances--all of the allowances up for bidding.
The money will go to the six states that put allowances up for bidding: Connecticut, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Vermont.
Having to pay for emission allowances up front in an auction, as you suggest, while also having to pay for these new plants would be a double blow for customers.Auctioning emission allowances at an average price of $20 a ton, as proposed recently by the White House Office of Management and Budget, would have caused rates to rise immediately and increased customers' bills.
The allowances go up for next year's ISA allowance; from 6 April you'll be able to save £5,640 a year in a cash ISA.
O'Connor said people had every right to be worried that penalty rates and allowances were up for grabs.
Environmental consultants said that although it was a good sign that the exchange sold all 125,000 metric tons of allowances it put up for auction, the low prices raised questions about whether the market could serve its function of encouraging efficient investment in cutting greenhouse emissions.
Enlistment was for a period of two years and was unpaid except for a one pound annual allowance, unless called up for active service.
Therefore the systems, the system of expenses, the system of allowances, these were not set up for women like me".
Make sure to get allowance when you can! Save up for some items that you really want!
Among traders and regulators, there was relief that all of the 23.1 million allowances covering 2013 emissions that were up for auction were sold.
The system is supplemented by a number of social services, the most important being the General Family Allowance Act, which provides for family allowances for children up to age 17 and under certain circumstances for older children (including those not entitled to student grants), and the National Assistance Act, under which benefits are paid to claimants who have little or no income.
