Sentence examples for the allowances in from inspiring English sources

The government would distribute the allowances in two ways, giving some away and charging companies a fee for the rest.

The arrangement "would be deemed an abuse of the allowances" in Westminster, Labour MP Kevin Barron, the chair of Parliament's standards committee, told the Times.

While the program has been judged a success by most of the participating states, in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic, an oversupply of the allowances — in essence, permits to pollute — has limited the program's impact.

The requirement for utilities to obtain the allowances in this way was established not only as a financial disincentive to discourage them from polluting, but as a way for states to raise money for greener energy initiatives.

The program, the nation's first cap-and-trade system, sets a ceiling on carbon dioxide emissions from electric power providers and requires the companies to pay for their heat-trapping emissions by buying the allowances in online auctions held four times a year.

(Nurse, district hospital, FGD) In addition to the concern about the salary, substantial emphasis was placed on the allowances, in particular the entitled allowance when attending seminars, short courses or workshops.

Mr McNulty maintains he has not broken any rules and stopped claiming the allowance in January.

But I think on the allowance in particular we have quite a commanding ownership of that where it matters to us.

That was seized on by the incoming education secretary, Michael Gove, who is abolishing the allowance in England (but not in Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland).

The authority ended the allowance in July 2010, Mr. Soffin said; public records show that at that time, he and his wife closed on their apartment for $1.599 million.

The figures showed 39,110 college students and school pupils from low-income families were taking up the allowance in 2007-8, meaning they were up from 2006-07 levels.