make allowance for
Example Sentences
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"The welfare of the men is a priority, they will need time and support, and we hope and trust our media and community will make allowance for this."
From BBC • Dec. 15, 2024
Alas, my plan to sort and cull my thousands of books — described last week in my Zippy Shell column — failed to make allowance for human nature.
From Washington Post • Jun. 17, 2020
Hutton believes, plausibly enough, that popular notions of fairness do make allowance for luck.
From The Guardian • Sep. 24, 2010
When you make allowance for price rises, national production is still seven times what it was in 1900.
From Time Magazine Archive
It would have been vain to look in those days for the philosophy which could make allowance for a diversity of national ideas and habits.
From Irish History and the Irish Question by Smith, Goldwin
