Sentence examples for given allowances from inspiring English sources

For example, hub carers like Nisa are paid to take on the role, rather than just being given allowances.

Parents struggling with rising childcare costs were to be given allowances of up to £1,000 in one of the coalition's flagship proposals to help the "squeezed middle".

In cap-and-trade systems, individual polluters are given allowances to pollute to a certain level, with the total number of permissible emissions slowly reduced year by year.

In exchange for their life savings, church members happy to work 20 hours a day for the cause were provided comfortable accommodations and given allowances.

If someone has used swearwords for most of their lives as part of their everyday vocabulary, should they be given allowances for their language?

And companies are still being given allowances based on those same historic levels of pollution, even if they have reduced their emissions since then.

In 1266, the Chronicle of Lanercost records that Alexander ruled Mann through appointed bailiffs; Scottish exchequer accounts record that the Sheriff of Dumfries was given allowance for maintaining seven Manx hostages.

Mr Clegg said: "I think most people would understand that if you are living and working in two different places and you are giving allowances to cover the costs in one of those places that also covers your utility bills.

He generously gave allowances to 70 friends and relatives -- and squandered away $110 million.

Maybe it's because the bill gives allowances to coal-burning utilities instead of to consumers.

It is tempting to think that, if you make generators pay for the emissions they produce, it will drive electricity prices up, but if you give allowances away for free, it won't.