Sentence examples similar to customary allowances from inspiring English sources
This allowance met with the approval of both the District supreme court and the court of appeals, and seems to have the sanction of an earlier decision of this court, where it was said that such allowances were customary in Maryland and the District of Columbia.
Allowance made for this customary indulgence, I was still astonished at the lenience and euphemism that pervaded the send-off items for Dr Christiaan Barnard.
In an interview in his New Orleans law office, Treeby declined to say how much salary the organization pays Swaggart himself, although others have placed the figure at "less than $100,000". Treeby said Swaggart also receives an unspecified "housing allowance," which he said is "a customary thing". "It enables a church to pay their ministers less money in salary," he said.
Ace, based in Bermuda, gave him a housing allowance of $214,000, along with what it called "customary" benefits, like a car, a club membership and the use of the company plane, its proxy statement shows.
Their two parallel departments provided food and drink through a series of officers carefully graded as to pay and allowances down to the man who counted the loaves and the slaughterers who had no pay but "customary food" only.
(Commercial yeasts are customary).
No, is the customary answer.
