What is "allows"

Usage examples of "allows".

God never abandons the man who, in the midst of misfortunes, falls down in prayer before Him, and that He often allows the wretch who has no faith in prayer to die miserably.

Neapolitan ambassador allows him to languish in prison for such a beggarly sum?

Instead of doing so he allows Esther to read them, intending to burn them afterwards.

The government allows my father but a small salary, and there are nine of us.

When we happened to find those places already tenanted by other men, we forced them by violence to quit the premises, and defrauded the miserable victims of prostitution of the mean salary the law allows them, after compelling them to yield to our brutality.

A visit to a dancer, a brute professing to be a nobleman, who insults her in my presence, who wants to kill her, who allows her to be carried off in his very teeth, and whose only opposition is to give me an appointment!

He never allows her to go out except on Sundays to attend the first mass at the Church of Santa Maria Mater Domini, close by his dwelling.

Such are the pleasures which old age no longer allows me to enjoy, except in my memory.

The night is for slumber, and in the day one enjoys double bliss, since the light allows all the senses to be satisfied at once.

Perhaps there is something in my lineage that allows for such a thing.

Our agreement with you allows us the right to decide the course of the Project without consultation with you, while you are free to withdraw from here when you wish.

I will venture to add that to me the convention mode seems preferable, in that it allows amendments to originate with the people themselves, instead of only permitting them to take or reject propositions originated by others not especially chosen for the purpose, and which might not be precisely such as they would wish to either accept or refuse.

So far from finding cause to object, I confess to a sympathy for whatever relieves our general force in Missouri and allows it to serve elsewhere.

Bach assures the right of voting to all loyal men, and whether a man is loyal, each allows that man to fix by his own oath.

It allows us to read the thoughts of other Qirsi, sometimes we can even enter their minds.