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disallow

[dis-uh-lau] / ˌdɪs əˈlaʊ /


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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

The VAR intervention to disallow Germany's goal may have seemed soft to anyone who watches Premier League football.

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 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

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

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

Jin, who turned 30 in December, had faced an impending conscription because the law disallows most South Korean men from further delaying their services after they turn 30.

From Washington Times ● Apr. 18, 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

A strong passion, a keen hope or fear, as we say, invests its objects with reality: even a sanguine moment presents as fact what calmer reflection disallows as fancy.

From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The goal that we thought had made it 2-1 was disallowed - correctly - for offside, but the build-up was more of the same.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 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

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 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

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

Lightning coach Jon Cooper said he didn’t feel Duclair’s interference was “egregious” enough to warrant disallowing the goal.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 29, 2024

The video assistant referee officials involved in wrongly disallowing a goal for Liverpool at Tottenham have not been selected for this weekend's Premier League games.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 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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