disallow
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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
Bryan Mbeumo controlled the ball with his hand before Matheus Cunha scored, but the referee rejected a review to disallow it.
From BBC ● May 29, 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
The auctioneer gave her a sour look but did not disallow the bid.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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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
In New York, redistricting rules are set by a constitutional amendment that disallows mid-decade redistricting and partisan gerrymandering.
From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2025
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
Anything that the law allows, but marriage and March beer, he murmurs at; what it disallows and holds dangerous, makes him a discipline.
From Character Writings of the 17th Century by Various
His effort was initially disallowed on the field for offside but, following VAR intervention, the goal was awarded as the Norwegian was ruled to have been played onside by Patrick Dorgu's boot.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
I know there was controversy over Neco Williams' disallowed goal in their draw against Spurs last time out but I do think they got the decision right in the end.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
Over the first 10 rounds of the season, Samuelsson said, officials have reported five situations where a goal was wrongfully disallowed or should not have stood.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
Four years ago in Qatar, only one goal was disallowed after 70 minutes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
I was disallowed the use of the house’s library, for fear that liberty amongst the volumes there would allow me to study and so unfairly prejudice the results of the experiment.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
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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
There was, though, near-universal agreement among pundits and refereeing experts that disallowing the West Ham goal was the right decision.
From BBC ● May 14, 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
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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