The phrase "allowed the privilege" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a situation where someone is granted permission to do something. For example, "The court allowed the privilege of visiting the prisoner once a week."
But thanks to Mr. Sanders and associates, we have been allowed the privilege of briefly inhabiting the passionate dream of those whose business is theater.
But just because taxis have the devices, it doesn't necessarily mean riders can use them — they may have to resort to some gentle and not-so-gentle arm-twisting to be allowed the privilege.
His subjects were required to prostrate themselves in his presence (adoratio); the most fortunate were allowed the privilege of kissing the hem of his robe (proskynesis, προσκύνησις).
That Ismail is allowed the privilege of periodically checking up on cottage game industries across the globe is a hugely reformational force for the 28-year-old developer.
But on June 10th, General Colin Powell, the military's highest-ranking officer, in a commencement address at Harvard, promised a solution that would respect "the interests of gay and lesbian Americans who want to be allowed the privileges of serving".
A name indicating that a child was born in the sunlit hours allows the privilege of a plump if overscrutinised life in the well-to-do trade town Toll-By-Day; a child born by night, however, will never see daylight and must live in desperate poverty, surrounded by callous crime and pervasive disease.
"The law allows the privilege of producing any work which we consider to be a work of genius irrespective of its formal indecency, providing that it is private and limited and that we take the precaution to see it is not offered publicly for sale.
Never eat food from your hands or touch your face after handling any salamander/newt without washing your hands and insist on others you allow the privilege of handling your salamander/newt do the same.
So many decades later, isn't it time that gay Americans were allowed the same privilege?
Jihad vs McWorld by Benjamin R Barber Corgi, £7.99 If ever a commentator on the world scene was to be allowed the dubious privilege of saying "I told you so" on September 11 2001, it was Professor Barber.
(To be fair, he was allowed the same privilege during a visit to Italy).
