Sentence examples for own allowances from inspiring English sources

"We have got to the problems we have because MPs have determined their own allowances," he said.

Cliff Hillegass insisted that his guides were intended as supplements rather than substitutions; it's heartening to think that teenagers have spent millions per year (much of it, presumably, from their own allowances) to do supplementary, uncredited reading about their favorite books.

It is the only local authority in the country where councillors still set their own allowances.

West Berkshire councillors have approved a 16.5% increase in their own allowances.

Councillors agreed to reduce some of their own allowances as they passed budget cuts of more than £2.6m.

Councillors due to consider £20m of extra cuts have approved a 19% increase in their own allowances.

If he had played to type, he would most likely have stayed in college and raised his own allowance.

My campaign records indicate that you purchased Mariah Carey's album "Daydream" at Tower Records, in Union Square, in 1995, with your own allowance money, so I know you're a lifelong fan.

Amelia paid Sandeep INR 22,000 a month, an amount way above the official minimum monthly salary in Delhi (approximately INR 8, 900 in 2010), out of her own allowance as an expatriate worker.

Let them save and buy any other things they want from their own allowance or earnings.

I can't avoid leafing through this next memory: the first sex mag I actually purchased with my own allowance money.