making allowance for

By making allowance for the Earth’s motion, Copernicus could work out the length of time it took each planet to orbit once around the Sun, and these periods formed a neat sequence from Mercury, with the shortest ‘year’, through Venus, Earth, Mars and Jupiter to Saturn, with the longest ‘year’.

They cautioned that "more cannot be done with less" and that "reduced expenditures mean accepting narrower national security capability, recognizing the risks this entails and making allowance for the flexibility to respond to events."

He has the conventional elite view of Harold Wilson as a paranoid conspiracy theorist, without making allowance for the venomous hatred that Wilson attracted among the classes who made up the secret services and controlled the press in his time.

Then she would have described him as a very spoilt child, making allowance for his illness, he was fretful, selfish, exacting.

Conflict has never arisen on the ethical sayings of Jesus, which, making allowance for the impracticableness of a few, place him high among the sages of antiquity.