disallow
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Now attorneys for the former action hero, 79, are requesting that court officials and law enforcement set up security protocols; disallow photography, video or audio recording; and tighten up who’s allowed in the courtroom.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
The agreement says the EPA “will not terminate, indefinitely suspend, or disallow costs for a covered grant.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
Glasner, Williams and most of the Forest fanbase refuse to accept that evidence does exist, and that there were no grounds to disallow the goal.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
Then the VAR could not disallow the goal, but they will be able to at the World Cup.
From BBC ● Jun. 10, 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
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 is not uncommon for inductees to be added to the hall of fame posthumously, but the association’s rule specifically disallows artists to be elected in the year of their death.
From New York Times ● Mar. 18, 2024
It neither mandates nor disallows any actions by companies or individuals.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 6, 2023
The objection of Speusippus,—that irrational creatures are not to be admitted as witnesses,—Aristotle disallows, seeing that rational and irrational agree on the point; and the thing that seems to all, must be true.
From Moral Science; a Compendium of Ethics by Alexander Bain
Unfortunately that was disallowed but it was really good!
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
Sunday started with a disallowed touchdown and two players being ejected on the first play at Tottenham, before two field goals in the final eight seconds helped the Jacksonville Jaguars beat the Philadelphia Eagles.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026
It disallowed him from flying, made him take a deradicalization program and gave him an administrative job.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
A rule promulgated in 2011 disallowed swaps tied to “gaming,” which the agency says includes bets on sports.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
F to B was considered so unpleasant that it was given the names ‘the devil in music’ and the ‘wolf tone’, and disallowed from the list of perfect fourths.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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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
But after a replay review, DeJean was ruled to have made a fair-catch signal before fielding the punt, disallowing the return.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 21, 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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