Sentence examples for his allowances from inspiring English sources

A councillor calls for his allowances to be cut, a police officer for short cuts to charging people with minor offences.

Last night, as Ukip circulated new party literature saying Westminster MPs had "ripped off taxpayers", Farage, who employs his wife to help run his office and pays her from his allowances, faced a backlash as opponents accused him of hypocrisy.

"If he spent his allowances on the house in any way – which is highly likely – he is guilty of exactly the same practice (selling a house for profit at the taxpayers' expense) which he criticises MPs for".

In September 2008, the fees office told Davies that he had overcharged £18.76 and £371.71 for council tax and utilities, so had his allowances claim cut to £10,409.89.

Like many MPs McCartney has used his allowances - the ones that got Derek Conway into trouble - to establish his parliamentary back-up team in his Wigan constituency, not at Westminster.

Not to mention a profligate expenses system that has enabled the Ukip leader, Nigel Farage, to use his allowances as a member of the European parliament to pay his German wife to help him bite the hand that feeds them both.

Sir Timothy Shelley gave his grandson Percy Florence an increase in his allowance for his twenty-first birthday, allowing Mary Shelley and Percy Florence to plan a second, longer trip to the Continent.

His allowance was stopped.

They promptly suspended his allowance.

When his father curtailed his allowance, Crane worked in advertising.

They rob Sammy not only of his allowance, but also his spotlight.