disallow
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Then the VAR could not disallow the goal, but they will be able to at the World Cup.
From BBC ● Jun. 10, 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
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 existing players in cybersecurity provide businesses with complex firewalls: software that identifies customers’ internal users of data, and tools that allow or disallow access to information for parties external to the customer.
From Barron's ● Feb. 17, 2026
The motion sought to disallow the testimony of David Strayer, the professor at the University of Utah, who is expert in distracted driving.
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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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
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 Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
Four years ago in Qatar, only one goal was disallowed after 70 minutes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
"We got lucky," he said after a quarter-final that saw Norway take the lead, miss a great chance to make it 2-0, have a goal disallowed and also hit the bar.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026
In the second half, Mostafa Zico made it 2-0 to Egypt, moments after the Pharaohs had a goal disallowed by instant replay for a foul that occurred at the other end of the pitch.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
Ronaldo, too, had a nifty goal disallowed when VAR showed him offside by a shoulder.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026
However, any mathematician of the day would have scoffed at this line of reasoning; Archimedes used the tools of the infinite, which were so expressly disallowed by his mathematical colleagues.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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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
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
Match of the Day pundits Danny Murphy and Steph Houghton give their thoughts on VAR disallowing Josh King's goal for Fulham against Chelsea.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2025
“To me, that basically speaks in favor of allowing, rather than disallowing, the questions, answers, expert testimony, et cetera,” he said.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 16, 2024
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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