The phrase "allowing to devote" is not correct in written English.
It is missing a subject or object to clarify what is being allowed to devote.
Example: "The new policy is allowing employees to devote more time to their personal projects."
Alternatives: "permitting to dedicate" or "enabling to commit".
It was anticipated that Flower, helped by the leeway the split role would give him in terms of the time he was allowed to devote both to the Test team and his young family, would see his job through until after the 2015 Ashes series at least.
I think often pursuing a career in the arts can be difficult in places like New York or Toronto, because the cost of living doesn't allow to devote time to your practice the way you do to working a job.
She taught for 20 years, but after a series of epileptic fits, was allowed to give up teaching and devote her life to prayer.
Weisser responded with new policies allowing employees to devote a day each month to volunteer work.
It provides summer salary awards to junior faculty, allowing them to devote their time exclusively to research, independent study, or improving their teaching effectiveness.
The funds go particularly far for Mr. Paul, whose campaign does not spend money on fancy buses, campaign consultants or elaborate headquarters, allowing it to devote the cash to television commercials and campaigning in early nominating states.
I suggest that Mr Lamy be more demanding of you and press for an abridged cartoon-strip version, thus allowing him to devote more of his valuable time to sorting out "the problems of bananas and hormones".LYNDA WATKINSittingbourne, Kent.
Among the previously unseen material to be published are notes on unrealised projects including a 1993 letter to Diana, Princess of Wales, asking "whether you might consider allowing me to devote a programme to you".
It's also a city that gives both of them a "flexible quality of life", allowing them to devote time to their five-year-old son, Aleph, as well as their individual careers.
Torbay has a much larger elderly population than average, allowing it to devote large chunks of its budget to them.
