Sentence examples for barely allow from inspiring English sources

She was 11 and not yet showing signs of the illness that would barely allow her to survive to 18.

FIFA's Club World Cup final is scheduled for Sunday in Japan, but most leagues across the globe barely allow it breathing space in their own quest to fill a TV screen near you.

Hardly a stirring campaigner, he dutifully leaflets outside of subway stations and bows before his masters, who exclude him from meetings and barely allow him to participate in his own rallies.

The House of Commons has timetabling rules which barely allow it to discuss bills that come before it, leaving it to the House of Lords to debate, scrutinise and amend bills in detail.

Here then is the paradox of the way work is viewed by many in this generation: they do not want to settle for an unsatisfying job that will barely allow them to get by but, at the same time, they have no choice but to take an unsatisfying job so they can afford to pursue their passion.

As one trustee told me: "Two days a week would barely allow the chair time to attend all the parliamentary select committee hearings – let alone actually seeing to it that the BBC was really being run in the interests of licence payers and not simply in aid of management convenience".

In reality, the budget agreement barely allows for inflation.

Streetwise Opera runs on a shoestring budget that barely allows Mr. Peacock to take a salary.

It was a budget job that barely allowed two more bedrooms and two more baths.

Women did not qualify because they were barely allowed to own anything.

In fact, she runs off to her mother and barely allows Anton access to their daughter.