The phrase "are merely allowed" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate that something is permitted but not encouraged or required.
Example: "In this organization, employees are merely allowed to take breaks during work hours, but they are encouraged to stay focused on their tasks."
Alternatives: "are simply permitted" or "are just allowed".
There is such a moment of truth in her description of a cousin's wedding, during which the bride is ostentatiously submissive over the course of a prolonged celebration totally dominated by men, who dance with one another while the women are merely allowed to watch.
Often, if you are merely allowed to openly and shamelessly ask for what you want and receive the support of your partner in having those desires, that can be enough.
By bleating about his or her erudition you are merely allowing your own ignorance to embarrass you.
In the past, parties of the legal opposition were merely allowed quotas of seats to create a democratic facade.
But tenant advocates called that figure illusory, saying owners were merely allowed to register their apartments as stabilized, but at their current higher rents, without penalties, "ratifying their earlier fraud," said Edward Josephson, litigation director for Legal Services NYC.
It is merely allowing other people to do what they choose to do, rather than prescribing to them what they must do.
When McConnell adopted "the Reid Rule" last year for Supreme Court nominees to break Democrats' filibuster against the nomination of Judge Neil M. Gorsuch, he was merely allowing the majority of the Senate to advise and consent.
(Instead, the episode generated a different controversy: viewers noticed that Alex Ariza, Maidana's strength and conditioning coach, pressed some white napkins to Maidana's nose as he tried to recover; in response to suggestions that he had given Maidana something illicit, Ariza said that he was merely allowing Maidana to blow his nose).
The difference between Brady's case and the debate over assisted suicide is only one of degree: whether it is the provision of a poison that a man may freely choose to drink or whether it is merely allowing a man freely to choose not to drink at all, in both instances it is 'we' who do or don't make available the means of death.
But increasingly such bells and whistles are just one part of more elaborate hotel pet programs meant to show travelers that dogs are not merely allowed — they are wanted.
One of the very first things that happened after the TSA was created was that its employees were not merely allowed to form a union, they were required to be members of the American Federation of Government Employees, an organization also known as the field staff for the Democratic Party.
