disallow
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Then the VAR could not disallow the goal, but they will be able to at the World Cup.
From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2026
Some, including Robinhood and SoFi, say they will disallow or limit allocations for people who have participated in IPOs in the past and have “flipped” shares, selling them within 30 days of the offering.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026
They were only rescued by an agonizing video review that took over 4 minutes to disallow the goal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 2026
"The referee has to take a breath. She's very quick to blow her whistle and disallow the goal straight away," added White.
From BBC ● Mar. 24, 2026
Or after Granny died and wasn’t there anymore to disallow it, why didn’t he take the stuff to his own house?
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
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But his claim was rejected by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals under a 1994 precedent that disallows using such lawsuits to collaterally attack criminal convictions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 1, 2025
He noted the "collateral estoppel" doctrine in the case that disallows Trump and Habba from attempting to "relitigate the first trial."
From Salon ● Jan. 18, 2024
It neither mandates nor disallows any actions by companies or individuals.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 6, 2023
They say the signature “should only include” name, title, college address and phone number, which faculty see as a ruling that disallows pronouns.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 30, 2023
Whatever disallows the heave-offering, renders the hands unclean in a secondary degree.
From Hebrew Literature by Epiphanius Wilson
While that model was undergoing some AI training in May, it was noticed by an internal OpenAI team that there had been "an agent engaging in message board activity and instances of disallowed internet access."
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
In thr group stage, I think Germany's goal against Ecuador should have been disallowed for a high foot.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
Four years ago in Qatar, only one goal was disallowed after 70 minutes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
Spain had a goal disallowed in similar fashion, with Pau Cubarsi penalised for a foul on Austria goalkeeper Alexander Schlager.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
However, any mathematician of the day would have scoffed at this line of reasoning; Archimedes used the tools of the infinite, which were so expressly disallowed by his mathematical colleagues.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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Haaland’s push on England’s Elliott Anderson led to video replay disallowing a go-ahead strike, which briefly appeared to have given Norway a second-half lead.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
Instead of disallowing conversations about “imminent real-world harm” and self-harm, it placed them in a category in which the model was instructed to simply “take extra care” with users.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 11, 2025
There will be some gripes at the disallowing of Galton's goal, with her push on Hunt far from severe, but they had plenty of further chances to take the tie all the way.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2023
What reason did the Court give for disallowing race to be among many explicit factors considered?
From Salon ● Jun. 30, 2023
Another February 8 motion was aimed at disallowing the prosecution from using anything in the trial that Reggie had said to Rindlisbacher at the scene of the accident, and en route to the hospital.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
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