"But surely they wouldn't allow — " "He could be a doctor, for all we know.
Under the new law, this won't be allowed; he could begin getting retirement checks immediately, but he won't get a check for back payments.
And - a sympathy vote and coalition-building allowing - he could be serving in the next government.
Although still convinced that Shakespeare was the author of the works, Ralph Waldo Emerson expressed this disjunction in a lecture in 1846 by allowing that he could not reconcile Shakespeare's verse with the image of a jovial actor and theatre manager.
When asked about the police's conduct on Thursday, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg allowed that he could not account for the actions of every single officer, but that by and large, the Police Department "conducted themselves the way they should".
Lord Alton allowed that he couldn't offhand think of any colleagues willing to die for their beliefs, but, perhaps ungallantly, offered up Anne Widdicombe, a Catholic member of Parliament and a right-to-life crusader, as a potential candidate.
Keeping up his credibility — and his cool quotient — would be a challenge, Mr. Jacobs allowed, if he could take the word "cool" seriously.
Rather, he allowed that he could conceive his sensory experiences independent of the brain, and that, if God were not supremely good, God could produce those experiences in us independent of the brain; but because God's perfection is inconsistent with deceit, he would never do this.
Stevenson was of the opinion that had he been allowed to, he "could have successfully prosecuted Adams on six murder counts".
During his talks with House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), Obama allowed that he could be open to raising the eligibility age to 67 and to increasing premiums for those seniors in the highest income brackets.
"For political reasons, and only political reasons, they could be allowed," he answers.
